Baring Faith to Uproot Belief

Agenda for Religious Reversions

That the jihadi Islam, to paraphrase in Telugu, has become the chaapa kinda neeru (stealthily spreading water under the mat) and its fidayeen lurk in every nook and corner of the globe, is a common knowledge for long. But yet, the non-Muslim world, despite the outsider advantage, remains clueless to confront, much less contain, this unremitting scourge. That is in part, geopolitics apart, is owing to an inadequate appreciation of this debilitating Islamic phenomenon, and this is but an attempt to address that lacunae.
So as to have the measure of this Islamic menace, one may gauge it through the mindset of Ijaz Khan Hussein of Pakistan, who survived the American military campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

“We went to the jihad filled with joy, and I would go again tomorrow,’ he said. ‘If Allah had chosen me to die, I would have been in Paradise, eating honey and watermelons and grapes, and resting with beautiful virgins, just as it is promised in the Quran. Instead, my fate was to remain amid the unhappiness here on earth.” (The New York Times report cited by M.J. Akbar in his book The Shade of Swords) However, the power of the jihadi brainwash lies in the ironical fact that many a fidayeen happen to be virgins themselves, unexposed thus to the joys of sexual intercourse! The unusual sexual obsession of the believers, bordering on mania, is dealt with later in this piece.

It was Napolean, who purportedly proclaimed, “Give me forty men who are not afraid of death, and I will conquer the world”, but Muhammad dextrously perfected the psychic route to metamorphose his folks into fidayeen on Islam’s jihadi path. Though he did so in order to make them cement his political lanes, the mullahs allude the same as Allah-perfected Islamic path to paradise. Whatever, Muslims fail to realize that the Quran they revere was no more than Muhammad’s means to meet his ends that is despite Ayesha’s firsthand account, “I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires."
Hence, it is incumbent upon the others to alert the believers that the Quranic ayahs, no matter whether they were Allah’s revelations, or Muhammad’s innovations, were the latter’s self-servings that forever bedevil their and their progenies lives. That is possible like never before in our information age but one needs a proper understanding of the Machiavellian tactics adopted by Muhammad to serve his selfish ends at the cost of his followers’ lives.

This is how it was.

After his flight to Medina, nay Yathrib, so as to sustain the nascent Islamic faith in his limited band of followers in the face of its ridicule by the neighbourhood Jews and Christians, he had set to turn the former against the latter in ayahs umpteen such as,

“The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved ones. Say: Why then doth he chastise you for your sins? Nay, ye are but mortals of His creating. He forgiveth whom He will, and chastiseth whom He will. Allah’s is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and unto Him is the journeying.”

“O ye who believe! Choose not for friends such of those who received the Scripture before you, and of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your religion. But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers.”

Just the same, not stopping at that, he stooped to set his greedy eyes on the wealthy Jewish hamlets to ravage which, the Spoils of War were good enough for him to egg his brigands, prompting Gibbon to dub Islam as a profitable religion. But it was when the mighty Meccans began to menace his Medina existence that he needed the dying to die ‘Napolean forty’ besides a new Quranic narrative to suit.

To start with, when his followers were a hapless bunch of seventy, his Quran in Mecca Surah, Ta Ha, 55.20, seemingly promised a promising afterlife right here,

“Thereof We created you, and thereunto We return you, and thence We bring you forth a second time.”

However, Medina’s changed circumstances made it imperative for him to downplay the inadequacies of life here and extoll the abundances in the hereafter that is besides substituting the premise of rebirth with the promise of permanence in the Paradise.

Hence, the Quranic stress,

“Naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a sport. Better far is the abode of the Hereafter for those who keep their duty (to Allah). Have ye then no sense?”

And then the Muhammadan chorus,

“O god, no good is but the good hereafter
So help the Helpers and the Emigrants.”

Not only that, not leaving the Hereafter to the limited imagination of his deprived folks, it was evocatively described in ways varied, such as,

"But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall admit them to Gardens under which rivers flow (i.e. in Paradise) to dwell therein forever. Allah's promise is the Truth; and whose words can be truer than those of Allah?"

Well, in Muhammad’s medieval period, maybe all this could have been an irresistible incentive but why should Muslims of the day deprecate their lives here that are better than the one pictured in Islamic paradise, is the puzzle.

Nevertheless, having altered the Islamic character of life and death, Muhammad rewrote its jihadi grammar thus:

“Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not.”

“Think not of those, who are slain in the way of Allah, as dead. Nay, they are living. With their Lord they have provision.”

So be it, but hypothetically speaking, can the followers of the other faiths be motivated to become martyrs based on the above premises, with their scriptures being what they are?
The answer would be an emphatic nay, and herein lies Muhammad’s ingenuous cunning in preparing the carnal ground for the fidayeen.

Well, Quran had unambiguously positioned him,

“Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day, and remembereth Allah much.”

And Quran hath it that Muhammad had given vent to his unbridled libido, laying bare his innate sexual urge that was after the aged Khadiza’s demise, resulting in multiple marriages culminating in the keeping of Mariyam. So, it is no wonder that sexual indulgence has endured as Islamic chivalry in the Muslim psyche. If anything, Allah allures the martyrs to His paradise thus,

“Enter the Garden, ye and your wives, to be made glad.”

“Reclining on ranged couches. And We wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes,”

And for the rest of his part, Muhammad further whetted the Islamic appetite for martyrdom by fixing the quota of these houris at seventy-two per head. What’s more, to make the heavenly bountiful meaningful to the sexually sceptical, he granted each one of them the strength of hundred men!

No denying, all that worked well for him in hoisting the Islamic flag in Mecca and the rest of the Arabia, and sadly, for much of the humanity, its latter-day flagbearers coerced many a cultured nation into its coarse order. What’s worse, overtime, the ummah came to be so structured as to make Islam ironclad that its hostility towards the others is perpetuated, sans scope for retraction and space for accommodation. And that made the cult a cureless virus to the world.

Nevertheless, with the laudable objective of modernizing this regressive cult that undeservedly acquired the religious tag, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had mooted the idea of the Madrasas with Muslim kids holding the Quran in one hand and a computer, an emollient replacement of the Islamic Sword, in the other. Well-meaning though, given the Quranic affect, in effect, it would be immensely damaging, as it could usher in multitudes of technically savvy fidayeen, leading to large scale manslaughters, aptly reminded by the flydubai episode. The fact that this fanatic cult strives to make all religion for Allah and aims to bring the world under a Caliphate, if ignored by the non-Muslims, it is bound to be catastrophic to the humanity at large.

So, it is high time to give up on ‘moderate’ Muslim hogwash of, Islam is a religion of peace, terrorism has no religion, all Muslims are not terrorists, Ummah is the worst victim of terrorism etc., and get real to the Quranic reality that it won’t let the believers live in peace and allow the others to live in harmony. However much the left-liberals wish, there can never be a via media in Islam – either one is a believing Mumin or a sceptical munafiq, with no in between moderate. Given that banning the Quran is academically implausible (restricting it in Masjids and Madrasas is eminently possible), baring the Islamic faith to uproot the Quranic belief is a viable proposition. Needless to say, all non-Muslims should join hands to lend their voices for exposing the Islamic inanities that give rise to Muslim abnormalities. Eventually, the body of munafiqs that such a campaign creates within the Ummah can be expected to bring the hegemony of the mullahs to a welcome end.

Just the same, the idea is not to make way for the evangelists into the Munafiq arena to harvest the disaffected Muslim souls but for them to return to Gibbon’s pre-Christian order of “the facility with which the most different and even hostile nations embraced, or at least respected, each other’s superstitions.” So, the agenda of religious reversions is for the potential renegades to revert to the religio-cultural dispensations of their respective progenitors, say, the subcontinental category to Sanatan Dharma and the Iranian variety to Zoroastrianism.

Author’s ‘Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife’ is a free ebook in the net.