A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

Chapter 27
Never-Ending Islamic Conspiracies
Pragmatism and candor are prerequisites enabling an individual or culture to grow and progress. If an
individual consciousness is unaware of its own short-comings, then he/she is unlikely to choose a path
different from the one repeated as a matter of habit or tradition. Healthy human beings are thinking
entities inherently capable of both knowledge acquisition and cognitive development. However pride
and/or apathy are known to be personal attitudes which can interfere with normal cognitive growth. On a
social, cultural, or national level, there are other ‘group think’ errors that can and do prevent normal
growth and development. Clever local or regional propagandists, to serve their own interests, can cause or
propagate certain attitudes or feelings to stymie rational thought, which might otherwise result in good
judgment contributing to social advancement. Our attitudes and emotional state either prepare us for
learning and growth, or preclude advancement.
The capacity to feel fear is an inherent human emotion deep within the psyche of all of us. This
primal instinct is normally dormant, but relatively easy to evoke and quickly bring to the surface. This
basic emotion has served our species well to insure behavior that guaranties survival, but this powerful
instinct also renders us all susceptible to emotional manipulation. Unreasonable fear is called paranoia.
Unjustified paranoia usually results in poor choices in behavior, sometimes with egregious harmful or
hurtful effects. While the correct perception of a true threat is critical to survival, the perception of a
threat which does not exist wastes energy and effort and also prevents any focus on personal, economic,
or cultural development. On the other hand, having no perception of a threat, when an actual threat is
present …is just plain stupid. The world is a dangerous place for mortal man, and diligent attention to it
dangers is wise, while excessive focus on distant unlikely threats is not. Then there is the old saying, one
of my favorites to mention to those preoccupied with slaying windmills; "Just because you’re paranoid,
doesn’t mean they are not really after you…"
In case you have not yet noticed, Muslim peoples and nations seem very prone to a wide range of
illogical and irrational 'conspiracy theories'. By their own words and actions, it seems vast numbers of the
Muslim ‘Ummah’ (community) are preoccupied with various perceived conspiracies, and are thus
perpetually locked into a cycle of fear and overreaction. Often, to distract their populace from the realities
of their own shortcomings or failures, governments/dictatorships permit or perpetuate misinformation. In
the Islamic world, social or cultural fears are also flamed by rumor, by news and editorial content, by TV
and radio productions, by internet and satellite broadcasts, and most importantly by their religious leaders.
It is no accident that all these arms of communication support this dynamic for deception. To understand
the mindset that creates and feeds these endless theories, one needs to look more deeply at the philosophy
and doctrine of Islam, and its history in relationship with non-Muslims. Many works are now emerging to
assist non-Muslims understand the way Islam emotionally and psychologically affects and limits its
adherents. Such books are critical to gaining true perspective on Islamic psychology and culture, as the
concepts and dynamics involved are outside typical western patterns of experience. Before enlightenment
can occur, one has to study unusual concepts and think ‘outside of the box’. This work you are reading
now is just one of many accurate evaluations of true Islam available today. www.jihadwatch.org and
www.faithfreedom.org remain two of the better internet sites to gain a perspective based on reality vs.
propaganda.
A most recent rumor gaining legs in the Islamic world, is that the Dec 26th "Black Sunday" tsunamis,
which killed almost a hundred thousand Muslims, was triggered by a combined Indian-American nuclear
experiment in the ‘belt of fire’ region, or possibly by massive American bombing in Afghanistan. A
respected Egyptian newspaper has just rendered support to this concept by repeating the claim in a recent
article. Whereas most humans can easily recognize a natural disaster based on an act of nature, apparently
it is impossible for Muslims to accept that their Allah could permit such barbarity against the worlds ‘best
people’, which is how they have been taught from birth to view themselves. As such any natural
catastrophe simply can not be an ‘act of God’. Instead, pressure builds to find some other rational to
explain the calamity. The easy target these days are the vile Hindus, the evil Christians, and/or the dirty