Slaying Islam
"The following article is a modified version of a
letter written in response to a passionate young and patriotic Iranian who questioned whether ideologies and
in particular Islam can be "killed"? The language as well as the content of this article reflects the language and the content of the letter of
the questioner" .
Today many Indians are angry with Gandhi for not being firm against the Muslims
and allowing Pakistan to separate. But I believe this is very unfair judgment
against Mahatama Gandhi. The blame should not be placed on Gandhi. There was
nothing that he could do to keep India together. To hold Gandhi responsible for the separation of
Pakistan from India is like blaming Dr. Bakhtiar for letting Khomeini take over
Iran. This blame rests on the shoulders of Jinah and the racist mentality that
Islam inculcates in its victims. It is Islam that indoctrinates its believers to
consider themselves “pak” clean and the unbelievers “najes” filthy. It
is Islam that cannot tolerate people of other religions. Jinah was not a
religious man but he used religion as an excuse for his separatists ambition. Gandhi could do nothing
vis-à-vis this much religious hate. The great master tried his best and he even
praised Muhammad to ebb the animosity of the Muslims. But Islamic hate is too
strong to be subdued by love.
Gandhi was unable to stop that much hate. You cannot win a Muslim by
love. Once a person becomes a Muslim he loses his humanity; his reason is gone;
his sense of justice is vanished; his heart becomes full of hate. He thinks of
killing the unbelievers; he despises people who are not Muslims and hate
consumes his being.
Today the Hindus of India blame Gandhi for caving in to the Muslims, which at
the end, as they claim, cost more lives. What possibly Gandhi could have done?
Should he have brought tanks and gunned down the Muslim separatists? Would this
have subdued their hate? Would this have stopped them from wanting to have their
own country? Of course not! Recall what General Yahya Khan did in Bangladesh. He
invaded that country (then called East Pakistan) when Mujib al Rahman from Avami
League of Bangladesh won the election. 90,000 Pakistani solders took the
country, massacred
3,000,000 Bengali civilians, mostly intellectuals and raped up to 250,000 women.
This rape was sanctioned by a leading Mullah of Pakistan by the authority of what
Quran teaches to do with the non-Muslim women captured in war. Awami league was
declared un-Islamic and therefore the killing spree and rape was licensed. Did this stop
Bangladesh from getting her independence? Force is never the answer. Gandhi
could do nothing to stop the disintegration of his country. The disease was
already advanced. The disintegration of India was inevitable.
Islam is a disease that destroys everything. It devastates lives and tears apart
families and nations. The hatred of the unbelievers is encouraged in Quran. A
Muslim is not even allowed to pray for his own father and mother if they do
not believe in that cult 9:23. Wherever Islam goes the disintegration of that country
follows. This disease must be stopped before it spreads.
Now we know what to
do. We have to eradicate this deadly disease and destroy Islam.
Taslima Nasrin said that fundamentalism is a poisonous branch shooting from the
trunk of Islam. Until the trunk is alive it will keep growing poisonous
branches. The solution is to cut the tree. You fight against
fundamentalism in one place and ten more fundamentalist and terrorist movements
shoot out in other places. The world must realize that Islam IS fundamentalism.
It IS terrorism. You cannot fight against Islamic fundamentalism and Islamic
terrorism without fighting against Islam
itself.
According to the western etiquette, it is not politically correct to criticize
people’s beliefs. This may work in the West. But Islam is a totally
different animal. You have to deal with Islam according to its own standards.
The standards of Islam are intolerance of other beliefs. If we want to
stop fundamentalism, the Talibans, the Hamas, the Hezbollahis and Islamic terrorism in
Philippines, East Timor, Kashmir, Turkey, Egypt, Africa, USA and anywhere else, we
have to kill Islam. We have to aim our darts at the heart of Islam. We have to
attack Muhammad and destroy the credibility of Quran.
I am not an enemy of religion in general. A good religion
can deliver a lot of peace and serenity to its believers. I would never decry
what someone holds dear to his heart and drives solace thereof. Even though I
personally do not need a religion to love humanity and experience the divine, I
will not belittle the sacred beliefs of other people. My
enmity is with Islam. The reason is, as I reiterated often, Islam is not a
religion of love but a doctrine of hate. Until Islam is alive there would be no peace. I
believe my responsibility in this world is to expose Islam and eradicate it. But
that is already happening. Let me pretend to be prophetic and declare that in one generation, Islam is gone. One generation and there
would be nothing left of Islam but a name and a bitter memory. I know you may
think this is too presumptuous and an audacious remark, but there are several
factors coming together that makes this a synch.
1)
70% of the population in Iran is young. The history has shown that in any
country when the number of young people exceeds the adults a revolution is
guaranteed. This is a social and biological phenomenon and has nothing to do
with the political condition of that country. Remember the Hippy Movement among
the Baby Boomers in America?
2)
Another factor is the general malaise and the discontent. This is very
characteristic of the condition in Iran.
3)
The 3rd factor is the presence of a repressive and dictatorial
regime. Well, we have one of the most repressive regimes in Iran.
Put all of that together and you have a revolution waiting
to happen. This revolution is not something that we can instigate or prevent. I
am not advocating revolutions. It is going to happen as a historic necessity.
But what we can do is to educate the young generation so that the revolution
does not get out of hand and is carried out peacefully and without the
bloodshed. The revolution need not be a violent one but it would be a total
shift from the way we think and of our values. Our task is to create guidelines
for the generation born and raised in the Islamic Iran to learn about democracy,
respect for human life and embrace the values of Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. This revolution will certainly end the rule of Islam in Iran. Khomeini
had warned that the
end of the rule of the Islamic regime means the end of Islam itself. I believe
he was prophetic in that statement. When we have freedom of expressions we will
be free to denounce Islam or discuss it openly in radios, TVs and newspapers just as we
do now through the Internet. Books
will be printed against Islam and the exodus from Islam will take momentum.
Today many Iranians are offended if you call them Muslims. This feeling will
only be generalized when everyone learn about the true Islam and realize that
the crimes perpetrated against them by the akhoods and mullahs were not
aberrations from the true Islam but they were the real Islam.
After Iran, immediately other Islamic countries will follow
suite. Unlike Christianity that managed to
survive and probably will remain
the religion of many people for centuries to come, Islam will vanish altogether
overnight. Islam grew overnight and will
die overnight.
I am longing for the day that humanity becomes united and
we embrace each other as brothers and sisters. However, religion is often the
cause of disunity and Islam is the greatest obstacle. But its end is nigh.
Many modernist Muslims have become desperate and to save their faith, they blame the Mullahs and
believers for not practicing the “true Islam”. That is
whitewashing the truth. Such posture may be
politically correct but is intellectually dishonest. We have to expose Islam and
show that the tree is rotten from its roots.
Look around yourself! See those Iranians who have rejected Islam now love the
entire world, and see how they
respect the rights of the people who have different beliefs. See how they
respect the Baha’is, the Zoroastrians, the Christians, the Jews, the Hindus,
the agnostics and the atheists, the very people that they hated while they were
blindly following the Messenger of hate. By rejecting Islam they have set themselves free
of their religious hate. Now they see themselves as humans and feel united
with the rest of humanity. All the prejudices and religious hate is gone. Then
look at those who are still caught in the claws of Islam. See how
they spew venom at everybody. If we get rid of Islam, we will get rid of our
hate against each other and we can be a united nation again and build a hate-free
world.
Our responsibility is to expose Islam. We have to aim at the heart of this
beast. Don’t buy the western cliché that people’s beliefs are sacred. That
is a fallacy. People are sacred, their beliefs are not. If a belief
preaches hate that belief is not sacred. It should not be respected but
denounced and repudiated. You have to
fight it even if its followers are offended. Nazism was never a sacred belief,
even if millions of Germans believed in it. Pay Muslims with their own coins.
Muhammad desecrated the holy places of the pagans of his time and demolished
their idols. Let us pay them back in kind and demolish their idols. Albeit,
unlike Muhammad who used sword and spilled blood of innocent people, we use our
keyboards and love them.
When Gandhi praised Muhammad, he either did not know the truth about Islam or as
a politician he could not say the truth, which would have fueled the animosity
between the Muslims and the Hindus. As a Hindu it was not his business to
criticize Islam anyway. But we know the truth and we are children born in Islam.
It is our responsibility to open the eyes of our fellow countrymen and women and
save our motherland from this monster.
The fight against Islam should not stop once we eliminate the barbaric regime of
Iran. At that time we have to intensify our fight. The Muslims will do all the
tricks in the book to stop us. They would ask us to leave them alone. They would
plead, “to you
your religion, to me mine”. But we should not give them any truce. We should
use all the media in our disposition, we should write as many books as we can,
we should spread knowledge as much as we can until Islam is eradicated completely.
Islam is a religion of Ignorance. It thrives through ignorance. When you
fight the ignorance, Islam will die. Islam is the religion of darkness; the
light of knowledge will dissipate it.
The first step is to establish our freedom and the freedom of
speech. Then, it is possible to eliminate Islam in one decade. Few will remain but they will be ashamed to declare their religion
publicly. The Mosques will be deserted and many of them will be converted to
museums, libraries and music halls for our kids to practice and perform. They
will be the most beautiful libraries in the world. Finally our majestic Iranian architecture
will be in the service of our culture, knowledge and art.
Hundreds of books and articles will be printed refuting Islam and the Muslim
scholars will be challenged to answer them. The weakness of Islam will be
exposed and its death will be ascertained. Just as the Islamic fanaticism from
Iran spread to the neighboring countries, the massive denouncing of Islam will
also affect the intellectuals in the entire Islamic world. The scholars in other Islamic
countries will start to debate. For the first time the Muslims will see the real
face of Islam. People will grasp the power and rule of the Mullah and religious
authorities will end. Islamic countries will compare the progress of other non-Islamic countries to
their own and see how Islam has hold them back from progress and has reduced them to poverty. Within a generation
(less than 30 years) Islam will be a dead corps. There will be nothing left of
it except a sore memory and a bad name.
This is the greatest change that is going to take place in our (Islamic) world
in the coming decades.
It will be the renascence of the Islamic countries. The intellectuals and
the freethinkers of this world have a tremendous responsibility. It
is up to them to make sure that this renascence is not derailed by violence. The
renascence must take place in our minds and social clashes must be completely
avoided.
Islam teaches violence. Muslims would seek every opportunity to use violence and
defend their religion by violence. They will call for Jihad. They will use
terrorism. This is the way
that Islam has grown and this is the way that it has maintained its grip for 1400
years. Islam’s strength is in violence. Violence is the method of choice for
Muslims. It is encouraged in Quran and the Mullahs will call for it again. We
should not let that happen. We should not give them this victory. We should
avoid situations where they may be tempted to use violence. We have to avoid
personal confrontations. The clashes are the clashes of ideas. We fight against
Islam, not Muslims.
Islam must be attacked from two fronts. One is Muhammad himself, his
immoral character is an eloquent proof that this man could not possibly qualify
to be a messenger of God. His weak moral fiber must be exposed. There are plenty
of Sahih hadiths that reveal the less-than-holy personality and conduct of the messenger of
Allah. The second front is Quran. We have to make everyone
see the
errors and the absurdities of this book. No one can ever write a book more
damaging to Islam than Quran. The Masses of Muslims who read that book daily, do
not understand it and are unaware of its barbaric nature. Those who know it are vaccinated
against reason. They have taken small doses of this poison every day for so long
that now they are immune to any logical and rational thinking. They see with
their own eyes the fallacies of Quran, its errors and its barbarism, but are
unmoved, unaffected, untouched. It is inconceivable that any human being with a
grain of conscience read the absurdities of Quran and not be aghast.
Once this ideological revolution take place among Muslims, the effects of that will reverberate in other parts of the world and the thinkers
of other religions will see the absurdities of their own Faiths and will come
down hard at the irrational beliefs of their own fathers. Fundamentalism in one
religion feeds the fundamentalism in other religions. It is as if there is a
competition and people of all religions vie with each other to be more
fanatical. When the Taliban issued the Fatwa that the Hindus in Afghanistan
should wear distinctive badges, immediately a terrorist Hindu group that calls
itself Hindu Unity issued a warning that they will start killing the innocent
Muslims in India if Hindus is Afghanistan are harmed. This senseless competition has brought the world to the verge of a
catastrophe of unimaginable consequences.
However, the reverse of that is also
true. Once the bigot fundamentalists of other religions see Islam is dieing and
it is under attack by the intellectuals
of its own; once they see that Muslims themselves have risen to slay
this beast, they will have no reason to exist. To fight with other
fundamentalist is the raison d' etre of the the fundamentalists of any religion.
When there is no one to fight with, there is no reason to be.
Once I was active in an Internet based discussion group, a Hindu used to come
and read my anti Islamic material to use as ammunition against his Muslim
opponents. One day he sent me a surprisingly refreshing email. He thanked me for
opening his eyes. He said that my criticism of Islam has made him question his
own religion and made him see that there are similar flaws in it too. He
confessed that he is no more a Hindu but a Humanist. It’s important to note
that I had never said a word against Hinduism and I don’t know much about it.
Isn’t it wonderful? By fighting the dogmatism and superstitions of our own
beliefs we are fighting against
dogmatism in
general and we are bringing about the world unity! :-)
This is an exciting time to be alive. You and I and ordinary people like us, can
actually change the course of history. We can kill the monster of religious
hate,
liberate its victims and not only usher them into a new age of
enlightenment but ease the tension between Muslims and the rest of the world and
establish universal peace in this planet.
Peace, love and unity will reign in this world when we eliminate hate and
ignorance. Islam is the biggest source of hate.
By Ali Sina
A strong comment on Dr. Sina's "Slaying
Islam" article
From:
Mohammed Ayoob <ayoob@pilot.msu.edu>
To:
Dasverma@aol.com
Subject:
Re: A different thinking - Need your
intellectual criticism / comments.
Date:
Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:25:45 -0400
Much of this is crap. He does not know that the leading ulema in pre-partition
India were at the forefront fo the nationalist movement, that the
Jamiat-ul-Ulema-i-Hind, the leading organization of Islamic scholar was an ally
of the Congress, that the Deoband theological seminary was the hotbed of
anti-colonial, nationalist activities. Jinnah and the his supporters knew little
about Islam as a religion and were involved in a political project to use Islam
to further their secular (this worldly) ends. Also, one should not ignore the
mistakes committed by the Congress in its approach to the Muslim elites who were
feeling insecure about their place in a post-colonial and
democratic India where Muslims would be reduced to a permanent minority. The
presence of Hindu nationalist trends both within and outside the Congress
exacerbated these insecurities and played into the hands Jinnah and the Muslim
League. Analysis that is
ignorant of context and the complexities surrounding a situation is not only
meaningless it can be very dangerous as well. His analysis of the Islamic
revolution and its aftermath in Iran equally, and in this case deliberately,
ignores the context in which Khomeini and his followers came to power.
"Little knowledge is worse than none"! I had never heard of the fellow
before.
Ayoob
Mon, 9 Apr 2001
I have some comments about your "Slaying Islam" as well. The
situation in Indian subcontinent prior to 1947 division was quite complex. And
that cannot be compared with the present day Iran or Iran in the past. Muslims
for their age-old orthodoxy decided not to learn English. That is why in many
parts of India, they became far behind Hindus in societal progress. There was
jealousness, low self esteem. In addition to that we have to take into account
of the feudal system in parts of India (like in Bengal). In feudalistic
Bengal, a good number of landowners (we call them Zamindars) were of Hindu
faith. The exploited class was Muslims. So there was societal exploitation on
religious lines. Also, the caste system in Hinduism brought more bitterness
among Muslims in some parts of India. Brahmins, the upper caste was behaving
as if they were the Whites of South Africa under apartheid. Jinnah exploited
and utilized all the grievances of Muslims. Although Pakistan was separated on
the basis of religion on the surface, there were undercurrents of a class
struggle in a dominant constituency like Bengal. History showed without
Bengal's participation, Pakistan would not have been a reality. Regarding Pak
army atrocity, I have some comments too. It is true Pakistani army wanted to
cleanse East Pakistan out of Hindus. There was systematic ethnic cleansing.
But all the 250, 000 raped women were not only Hindus. There was sizable
Muslim women as well. In fact, Pak army wanted to wipe out Bengalis from their
ancestral land. Muslim and Hindu Bengalis suffered equally in many instances.
That is all for now.
Sincerely yours,
Jamal Hasan
