Buddhism Compared with Islam 
NOTE:
This
article has been modified to be less inflamitory than the original
article by an unknown author. Buddhists do not, normally, criticise
other religions, however, the scurrilous criticism of Buddhism by
'Professor' Harun Yahya (Real name Adrian Oktar) deserves a response.
Not all Buddhists would
necessarily agree with all of the sentiments expressed by the author,
but he makes some important points.
Buddhism
and Islam - a critique
I
was
intrigued to read the booklet 'Islam
and Buddhism' by Professor Harun Yahya (www.islamandbuddhism.com/)
Professor Yahya
is an eminent Islamic philosopher and theologian, and a world authority
on the
relation of Islam to science.
In 'Islam and Buddhism', Professor Yahya has forced Buddhism to submit to a penetrating Islamic examination in four main respects:
Chapter
1 claims
that
Buddhism is idolatrous. Buddhists worship inanimate objects.
Chapter
2
examines psychological and soteriological criticisms which build upon
those set
out in 'Crossing the Threshold of Hope ', and other Catholic sources
such as
the Catholic Encyclopedia and the pronouncements of Cardinal Ratzinger.
For example, Cardinal Ratzinger's comments that Buddhism is 'autoerotic spirituality' are developed to claim that Buddhists lead a 'life of self abuse' .
Chapter
3
revisits and elucidates protestant critiques - that Buddhism
is the only
religion which has betrayed spirituality to materialism by rejecting
Biblical Creationism
and
accepting the validity of Darwinism
and the theory
of evolution. In Chapter 3 Professor Yahya virtually equates
Buddhism with
materialism - a claim which some
Buddhists might
hesitate to agree with.
Chapter
4
claims that Buddhism has degenerated.
Chapter
5 ,
the summary, returns to the main theme of idolatry covered in Chapter 1.
This essay is concerned primarily with examining the criticisms made in
Chapter
1, with a few salient points from Chapter 2, including an interfaith
comparison
of the effects of masturbation in the Buddhist, Muslim and Catholic
religions.
Comments
on Chapter 1
Chapter
1 is almost obsessively concerned with idolatry, a theme which recurs
in
Chapter 5. The words 'idol(s)' , 'idolatrous' or 'idolatry' occur at
least 20
times in this chapter. To paraphrase the Bard "The gentleman doth
protest
too much, methinks" .
Most of us are familiar with the Freudian psychological mechanism of
'projection', where the undesirable characteristics one wishes to
conceal in
oneself or one's own group are attributed to another individual or
group.
In the
sociological context this is known as 'scapegoating', which is a
socio-psychological mechanism that is often deliberately employed by
totalitarian ideologies. As the prominent Nazi Hermann Rausching
observed
'If the Jew did not exist, we should have to
invent him' (KOLTZ
1983)
Following this hunch, I did a search on 'Islam + Idolatry', which led
to a slew
of sites demonstrating that Islam's origins are indeed steeped in idol
worship,
many aspects of which persist to the present day. [My intuitions were
subsequently confirmed by General William Boykin's
conclusions - BOYKIN1,
BOYKIN2,
BOYKIN3,
BOYKIN4.]
For example, unlike the Jew or Christian, the Muslim does not pray to a
universal deity. He prays to something with a definite geographical
location on
the surface of planet earth. (The search also revealed many
other things
about Islam that they don't publicise during college Islamic
awareness week - see
later sections of this article)
The
Muslim does
not pray towards
The
Meteorite and the
Moon God.
Until I researched the topic of idolatry, I had always
assumed that Allah
was just another word for the same transcendent and immanent deity
known as
'Jehovah' in Judaism, and 'God' in Christianity. But apparently this is
not the
case. Allah started life as a moon god who had three daughters, hence
the
ubiquitous crescent symbol of Islam [ See MOON1,
MOON2,
MOON3,
MOON4,
MOON5,
MOON6,
MOON7 ].
Allah's main earthly manifestation was a meteorite that had either landed in, or been transported to, the main square of Mecca [See MET1, MET2, MET3, MET4, MET5, MET6, MET7, MET8, MET9].
Idolatry
of al-insan al-kamil
Of
course
idolatry does not only apply to inanimate objects, one can also idolize
people. In Islam, Mohammed has become an idol who
is regarded as
al-insan al-kamil - the perfect man - and as such his example is to be
followed
in all aspects of human behavior and it is valid for all
time.
When faced with an ethical dilemma, a Christian may ask herself "What would Jesus do?" A Buddhist may ask herself "What would Buddha do?"
In both cases the answers are likely to be very similar, for Christianity and Buddhism have similar codes of ethics based on the Golden Rule.
However,
when a
Muslim asks himself "What would Mohammed do? ", he's likely
to get a very different answer The doctrine of
al-insan al-kamil
allows a Muslim to ignore his conscience if the prophet has set a
precedent
which enables him to do so. See al-insan
al-kamil_1, al-insan
al-kamil_2
Projection
and
scapegoating
So, the psychological mechanisms of projection and
scapegoating explain the
Islamic obsession with idolatry, and no doubt were involved in the
events at Bamiyan,
together with
the fatwa on Barbie and the declaration of Jihad against Teddy Bears (
See TEDDY1,
TEDDY2,
TEDDY3,
TEDDY4,
TEDDY5
).
Islam is just as idolatrous as the religions it criticizes (the icons of the Orthodox Church and the Statues of Roman Catholicism have historically also been attacked by Islamic iconoclasts).
Nevertheless,
we must
examine whether there is indeed any truth in these allegations of
idolatry as
they apply to Buddhism.
What
is the function of
statues and icons in Buddhism?
The first thing to point out is that Buddhist statues and
icons have no
intrinsic powers or functions. Any effects they produce arise entirely
within
the practitioners' own minds. The statues and images themselves have no
shred
of inherent existence and their materials and workmanship are of no
importance.
So why worship these artifacts?
Well in fact they aren't worshipped. They are venerated - just like the
icons
of the Orthodox churches. The holy images function to provide a focus
for the
mind of the practitioner to become aware of the presence of a certain
aspect of
'Enlightened Mind'. The Buddhist believes that Enlightened Mind is
all-pervasive, however one needs to focus one's own mind in order to
connect
with it. Abstract reasoning and philosophy are all very well, but for
developing an awareness of the numinous, one picture is worth a
thousand
syllogisms.
So, when contemplating the image of a Buddha, the practitioner strongly
believes she is in the living presence of an Enlightened Being. That is
why the
materials of construction and quality of craftsmanship of the icon
(though
often very beautiful) are ultimately irrelevant. An expanded
polystyrene Buddha
painted with pink and purple polka dots would be just as valid an
object of
veneration if it produced the desired mental transformation. See Symbolism
and
Visualisation for a detailed discussion of this topic.
Comments on
Chapter 2
Miserable
Buddhists
The statement that Buddhism 'accepts suffering as a virtue
and advises its
devotees to lead a miserable life. ' is totally refuted by psychological
investigation
Hi-Tech
Mullahs
The claim that 'Islam encourages the development of science
and
technology', is a classical example of Taqiyya ,
ie a statement which is
known to be the opposite of the
truth. If Islam is such an
enlightened and modernistic religion, how is it that Muslims are so
notably
underrepresented among
Nobel
prize winners? Why does the Islamic educational
syllabus consist of
little else but rote
memorization of the Koran and training for Jihad? ( MAD1,
MAD2
).
Could it be because any familiarity with
post-Copernican
cosmology, or indeed with rational habits of thought in general, might
lead
even the most brainwashed madrassoid to question the divine origin of
the
Koran? ( SCI1,
SCI2,
SCI3,
SCI4,
SCI5,
SCI6,
SCI7,
SCI8,
SCI9,
SCI10,
SCI11.)
Islamic
science and technology
Islamic
backwardness in science has fortunately been a major
benefit to
civilization, for as Winston
Churchill noted ' were it not that Christianity is sheltered
in the strong
arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled -
the
civilisation of modern Europe might fall'.
Churchill wasn't referring to academic physics and chemistry, but rather to the practical applications such as the Maxim gun, which sent the Mahdi's followers to paradise in such numbers that Allah had to introduce virgin-rationing.
Meanwhile, as the Mahdi's martyred followers were getting to grips with their disappointments, back on planet earth in the Sudan, innumerable women and children were (for the best part of a century) spared violation, mutilation and slavery.
We must never forget Churchill's warning. If the civilized world should ever lose its pre-eminence in science and engineering, then the primitive tribal forces of rape, pillage and fanaticism will prevail. Hitler was defeated by allied supremacy in aircraft design, radar and cryptography. Let us hope that science and technology will similarly prove decisive against the barbarians, as the developing clash of civilizations moves inexorably towards Armageddon.
Islam's
contribution to world culture - snuff movies and videos of beheadings.
Islam
is
an underachieving
culture which has made no contribution to civilization for
the past
500 years. This does
not just apply to science and technology, but also to the
arts. How many
Muslim sculptors, painters, composers or dramatists can you name? The
one
exception to this general lack of creativity is the new cinematic genre
of
snuff-videos of Kafirs being beheaded, showing now at
a
mosque near you.
Buddhism
is atheistic?
The
claim
that 'Buddhist philosophy denies the existence of God' is also untrue.
Buddhism
is philosophically agnostic rather than deliberately atheistic.
It would, however, be fair to say that Buddhist philosophy is less concerned with the 'Existence of God' than with the 'God of Existence'. The Buddhist definition of God - assuming it is possible to define (literally set limits on) the Ground of Being , is the subject of a profound philosophical debate. Needless to say it does not involve 'That Old Devil Moon', or chunks of junk from the asteroid belt. A brief superficial discussion is given on this website, but for a more technical philosophical treatment see "Is Buddhism Really Non-theistic?" at http://www.alanwallace.org/writings.htm .
Buddhism
and
masturbation - Buddhists hold their own in the face of accusations of
self
abuse and autoeroticism.
Catholics
and Muslims criticise Buddhism
for
permitting masturbation (at any rate among non-ordained
practitioners)
while they regard it as a grievous sin. Muslims regard male
masterbation as
worse than raping
slave girls. Female masturbation is prevented by
genital mutilation
including cutting
out the
clitoris and other vaginal structures , which are the normal
source of
teenage girls' pleasures from autoerotic pussy-play and non-penetrative
petting with boyfriends and girlfriends. (See Clitoris
1,
Clitoris
2, Clitoris
3 and Clitoris
4). These
mutilations are a cruel form of female castration.
'A
life of
self-abuse'
It's
true
that Buddhists are encouraged to avoid self-grasping, but masturbation
doesn't
give rise to big guilt complexes as in other religions. And anyway,
surely a
'life of self-abuse' would be preferable to a life of child
and animal
abuse - check out the strange practices described
in the following
links: SEX1,
SEX2,
SEX3
SEX4,
SEX5,
SEX6,
SEX7,
SEX8,
SEX9
, SEX10
,
SEX11
, PEDOPHILES
Muslims absolutely hate any reference to their religion being founded by a pervert who nowadays would be in jail for statutory child-rape. They hate being reminded of it because they cannot deny it as a lie or misinterpretation - their own scriptures describe Mohammed's 'activities' with 9 year old Aisha. They hate non-Muslims - especially prospective converts - finding out about it because Mohammed's pedophilia seriously undermines any claims of authenticity for the Koran. It is a well documented observation in forensic psychology that pedophiles are prolific, ingenious and persuasive liars.
Similarly, maybe Cardinal Ratzinger needs to put his own house in order before he criticises the non-coercive sexual activities of others.
Masturbation
and prostate cancer
Returning to the subject of solo-sex, frequent ejaculation is normal
and
healthy and helps prevent prostate cancer. It's equally
effective
whether achieved with a partner or with Mrs Hand and her Five Lovely
Daughters.
See PROSTATE
1 , PROSTATE
2, PROSTATE
3. So if you want to maintain a healthy prostate you may need
to masturbate
regularly. Superstitious taboos against masterbation are both
physically and
psychologically unhealthy.
'An
Oppressive,
Enslaving Religion'
'Buddhism enslaves
its devotees in
misty monasteries and forces them into a life of suffering and poverty'. No,
Islam is the ultimate oppressive enslaving religion (SLAV1,
SLAV2,
SLAV3,
SLAV4,
SLAV5,
SLAV6).
As Winston Churchill remarked "The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
In contrast, Buddhism is a religion of liberation.
Always bear in mind that Islam's teachings are completely unlike those of other faiths
Islam is more like a contagious mental illness than a spiritual belief system. Again Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head. Seventy years before Richard Dawkins formulated the Meme Theory of Religion - which regards malevolent cults as mind-viruses - Churchill was already comparing Islam to the rabies virus: "The fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog"
The rabies virus serves no purpose other than to propagate itself, and in the process it causes madness and immense sufferring.
Buddhism
is superstitious.
The
allegation that Buddhism is superstitious is repeated frequently in
'Islam
and Buddhism'. But if you really want to see some
superstitious hogwash,
check the following links. Apparently Muslims believe that Allah can be
manipulated into sending people to hell by occult practices involving
pork
products. See HOGWASH1,
HOGWASH2,
HOGWASH3,
HOGWASH4,
HOGWASH5,
HOGWASH6,
HOGWASH7,
HOGWASH8
. This kind of superstition is the most primitive type of
necromantic
shamanism.
Burning
infidels
In view of the imminent second anniversary of the September
11 atrocities,
( WTC1,
WTC2,
WTC3
) the
gloating hate sermon in Chapter 2, with its obvious WTC connotations,
seems
somewhat insensitive. This passage has indeed been removed from online
adaptations of the booklet, probably to make it less offensive to an
American
readership (Taqiyya
again?)
However, for the record, the following sick, sadistic fantasies are
quoted in
the original as authentic passages from the Koran:
"(39: 71-73): The unbelievers will be driven to Hell in companies and
when
they arrive there and its gates are opened its custodians will say to
them,
"Did Messengers from yourselves not come to you, reciting your Lord's
Signs to you and warning you about meeting [Him] on this Day of yours?"
They will say, "Indeed they did!" But the sentence about torment will
[already] have fallen due upon the deniers of the truth. They will be
told,
"Enter the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly, for ever. "
"The
people
of Hell, "shackled together in chains" (Qur'an, 25: 13), will be
jammed into "a
sealed vault of Fire" (Qur'an, 90: 20) and
live in the murk of
thick black smoke. They
will hear the fire gasping harshly as it seethes and find
people moaning in it. Their endless pain will never be relieved,
despite their entreaties, causing them indescribable anxiety."
"A
scorching wind will burn their skin, which will be continually replaced
to burn
yet again, as God describes in verse 4: 56,
"Every time
their skins are burned off, We will replace them with new skins." They
will be beaten with cudgels made of iron and bound in "a chain which is
seventy cubits long" (Qur'an, 69: 32). "
So according to Muslim belief, those NYC firefighters, paramedics and
other
rescuers who were trapped by the collapsed towers and slowly roasted to
death
as the fires spread through the rubble, will, being
infidels, have an eternity of the same agony to look forward
to.
This Muslim doctrine of divine
hatred and sadism
is not compatible with the beliefs of Buddhists, Jews and Christians
concerning
the compassionate nature of a Loving God, or Transcendent Enlightened
Mind.
Satisfying
Allah's lust for Kafir human sacrifice by ritual beheading
Islam's obsession with torture, cruelty
and ritual
murder
involving human
sacrifice by beheading to the chant of 'Allah
Akbar', provides further evidence that Allah is not
the same entity as
the God of Jesus, Saint Francis, or Rabbi
Hillel. (See
GOD1, GOD2,
GOD3,
GOD4
).
In
the
video
"Then the man pulled out a long
knife and cut off
Bigley's head with the help of a group of masked men who shouted, "God
is
great!" in Arabic. "
- No they didn't, they shouted
"Allah Akbar" .
"In
the
video (a
different video) ,
the first victim is shown
lying on his back. He is blindfolded, tied, and is approached by a man
wielding
a knife. The words "God is great" are shouted and the victim's throat
is cut. The video records the terrible sound of him trying to breathe.
Afterwards, he is decapitated and his head held aloft before being
placed on
his torso, the blindfold pulled up so his face can be seen." The
report repeats the same error. When
Muslims perform human
sacrifice they do not say "God is great" in English, they say
"Allah Akbar" in Arabic, which translates as 'Allah is
great'
To equate
Allah with God is to fall into the trap set by the Anti-Christ.
All Buddhists reading this page should note that the poor Nepalis were sacrificed because they were Buddhists. It isn't just Jews and Christians who get the Allah Akbar treatment.
Maybe Buddhists, Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Hindus, Jews, Sikhs and all other civilized religions ought to forget our differences and join together in a 'Kafir coalition' to oppose this murderous Satanic cult. If we don't all hang together, then we shall most assuredly all hang separately. And it's not just other religious groups who are on the hit list. Gays, lesbians and outspoken artists are for the chop as well.
Filthy
pervert old enough to be her grandfather
Some
Christians believe that Jesus prophesied that it was inevitable that
religious
arguments would some day be used to
justify child abuse,
and He warned of the heavy negative karma incurred by those who
propagated such
perverted doctrines - see King James Bible, Luke, Chapter 17, verses 1
and 2.
It is also possible that He specifically foresaw the coming of Islam
as 'wolves
in sheep's clothing'.
Remember
Bamiyan and Nalanda
'Those
who forget
the past are condemned to relive it'- George Santayana
The eight hundred year history of Jihad in the East against Buddhists
and Hindus
has many lessons for the current Jihad
in
the West against Jews and Christians. As Dr. Koenraad Elst
says in Islamic
Genocide :
"...The
Islamic
conquest of
The Islamic invasion of India was not only accompanied by the traditional massacres of men , rape of women and looting of booty as originally sanctified by Mohammed, but also by attempted culturicide with massive destruction of universities and libraries, most notably the Buddhist university of Nalanda, where the ruins of the great library smouldered for six months (see also Nalanda_1, Nalanda_2 , Nalanda_3 Nalanda_4) .
The
high
civilization of ancient
The
Religion of Peace?
Well-meaning western liberals and their governments are making three
fatal
errors of judgement by assuming that:
(1) Islam
is basically a peaceful religion which has been temporarily
hijacked by
fanatics.
(2) The causes of the Jihad against the West are legimate grievances.
Once
these have been appeased - for example by handing back irredentist
territories
such as
(3) Islam can coexist peacefully with other belief systems.
The Jihad in the East, which still continues with the persecution of Hindus and Buddhists in
Bangladesh, and the
destruction of the last vestiges of Buddhist civilization in
Islamic
rage and hatred
" Hatred
of non-Moslems is
the pivot of Islamic existence. It not only declares all
dissidents as the
denizens of hell but also seeks to ignite a permanent fire of tension
between
Moslems and non-Moslems; it is far more lethal than Karl Marx's idea of
social
conflict which he hatched to keep his theory alive."
The Quranic
doctrine of hatred
against the unbelievers is as central to Islam as is the
Sermon on the
Mount to Christianity, or the Four Noble Truths to Buddhism. Jihad
is a sacred duty whenever there is a chance of success
against the
Infidel .
Madrassas
Nevertheless,
the non-Muslim, and especially the Buddhist, should not respond to
Islamic rage
and hatred with feelings of anger. The civilised person should recall Churchill's
words about hydrophobia. The Muslim is a
potentially normal human
being who has been infected with a rabid meme that turns him into a
killing
machine - just as a happy, friendly dog might be infected by
the rabies
virus and in its madness attack all around it.
Loathe and despise the illness by all means. But do not hate the patient. Even the most brainwashed fanatical terrorist should be an object of pity rather than of hatred. Many of these young men have spent all of their brief lives in madrassas (Islamic 'faith-schools'), where they have been systematically indoctrinated with resentment, anger and murderous rage.
They
have also
been deprived of female company during their teenage years, and taught
that
masturbation is a grievous sin which can only be absolved by martydom,
and that
same act of martydom will also satisfy all their sex-starved
adolescent
fantasies with a bevy of beautiful, sensous, nubile virgins
grapes.
Jihad
for
Allah - or Satan?
If
Allah
is God why is he scared
of his
enemies? Why does he need to recruit criminals, psychopaths
and brainwashed adolescents to fight the Jihad for him? .
If he wanted the
unbelievers dead so badly, he could have done it himself. God does not
need
mercenaries and hit men. God is not a paranoid. He is not a narcissist.
It
would make no difference to Him whether you believe in Him or not, so
why would
he want to kill you and then burn you for E T E R N I T Y if you do not
believe
in Him? This insane Allah is not the creator of this vast and
magnificent
Universe but the product of a sick mind
If Allah really were Akbar, why would he need his 'slaves' to remind of the fact every time they decapitate a Kafir? Is this insistence on the greatness of Allah an attempt to deny something? Why is Allah so status-conscious, why is he so vain? Maybe there is someone greater than Allah. What or who is Allah afraid of?
After
all,
"God is great " would be a such statement of the obvious (in fact a
tautology) that Christians and Jews don't even bother saying it (of
course they
don't perform human
sacrifice either).
The
symbolism of Bamiyan
The main lesson that the West needs to learn from the Jihad
in the East is
that Islam is a destructive, rapacious,
predatory,
insatiable and implacable
meme that despises peaceful and gentle religions. Islam is
intrinsically violent and regards appeasement as weakness and
an invitation
to further aggression. See JIHAD1,
JIHAD2,
JIHAD3
(in depth analysis),
JIHAD4,
JIHAD5,
JIHAD6,
JIHAD7
.
The Global Jihad didn't begin on 9/11, it's been going on in distant parts of the world for fourteen hundred years. The only reason we've become Islamically-aware is that with sleeper cells in every city, we know that the fifth column can now launch effective attacks throughout the once impregnable Western hemisphere.
In addition to planning major atrocities, the fifth column also promote 'creeping Islamization', sometimes in the innocuous guise of political correctness, multiculturalism and 'Islam awareness' events, but nowadays more frequently as intimidation , subversion and murder. A major American magazine has recently been intimidated into removing two books that lift the lid on Islam from its online sales list.
Creeping Islamisation and creeping Sharia are serious and growing threats to freedom of expression, worship and civil liberties in Europe , Australia and America: See CREEP1, CREEP2, CREEP3, CREEP4, CREEP5, CREEP6. The thin ends of a thousand wedges are being driven into the social, cultural, educational and legal structures of the civilized world, with the ultimate objective of weakening them until they are no longer able to resist the imposition of a Shariah-based theocracy, where any criticism of Islam will be punished by death.
As the history of the Nazi era demonstrated, the best time to stop the process of appeasement is before it gathers momentum. Otherwise greater concessions follow lesser ones with subsequent demands becoming increasingly uncompromising, and the threatened consequences of refusal ever more intimidating.
And if you thought it was only in the Middle East and Europe where people are murdered for criticizing Islam, then think again. It's already happening here!.
A
magnet
for psychopaths
Since
Allah allows, and indeed encourages all manner
of
criminality
(provided the victims are infidels rather than Muslims), it
is not
surprising that the cult has become a magnet
for psychopaths in the West, and is especially
successful in recruiting
terror
converts
in jails.
Mass
Child-murder - Beslan may be only the start
All
civilized people have been repulsed by the Jihadists mass murder of
children in
Beslan. And yet according Islamic theology such events are justified .
The
prominent Muslim theologian Suleiman Abu Gheith has called for the
execution of
two million American children in revenge for Muslim grievances (and what
Muslim doesn't have grievances?) see ABU1, ABU2,
ABU3,
ABU4.
However
, it must
be emphasised that the majority of Muslims in the West do not
support Jihad.
Only a minority (about one in eight) actively
approves of major
terrorist attacks against their host nations, see MINORITY1,
MINORITY2.
Nevertheless one in eight of an estimated Western European Muslim
population of
20 million is over two million Jihadists. It would be
difficult, even
with Russian-style
security measures, to protect all the kindergartens and
schools in
And it
could
happen here. The terrorist expert Lieutenant General Tom McInerney has
warned
that the tactic of mass child-murder may "roll
West into Europe
and into our own country".
The activities of the Washington
snipers give a chilling illustration of the ultimate
development of the
Jihadist mentality; just before their capture they specifically
threatened that
they would concentrate
further attacks on children.
However,
in purely
practical terms it is unlikely that Jihadists could reach the two
million target
by Beslan-style school massacres in the
Islamic
awareness - by their fruits ye shall know them.
The events
at Beslan
reveal in all their starkness the unbridgeable gulf between the Islamic
mind parasite and
genuine spiritual paths such as Buddhism and Christianity:
By their fruits ye shall know them. A genuine spiritual path brings out the best in people. Islam does the opposite.
NOTES
TAQIYYA
(sometimes spelled TAQQIYYA or TAQIYA) is the duty of Muslims to lie
about the
beliefs, methods and objectives of Islam to non-Muslims. [TAQIYYA_1,
TAQIYYA_2,
TAQIYYA_3,
TAQQIYA_4
, TAQIYA_5,
TAQIYYA_6].
Taqiyya (bad faith, deceit, contempt for the truth, false promises, evasion, deceptive moderation and crocodile tears for terrorist victims) negates any attempt at interfaith dialogue between Islam and other belief systems, because we infidels never know whether we're being told a pack of lies.
In Islam it's OK to lie and deceive Kafirs (infidels) because Islam is in a permanent state of war with all non-Muslims and deception is a legitimate tactic. The word or promise of a Muslim to a Kafir counts for nothing in the eyes of Allah.
So taqiyya means that the only time you can be sure that a Mullah is telling the truth is when he says he's lying!
The
following
sites are independent analyses which give a variety of taqiyya-free
perspectives on Islamic motives, methods and objectives:
DHIMMIWATCH -
essential reading!
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Churchill,
W The River
War 1899
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as
hydrophobia in
a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits,
slovenly
systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of
property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A
degraded
sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of
its
dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must
belong
to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a
concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith
of Islam
has ceased to be a great power among men.
"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the
brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the
influence
of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow
it. No
stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund,
Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already
spread
throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and
were it
not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the
science
against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern
Europe might
fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient
Koltz, C (1983) 'Scapegoating' in Psychology Today, December 1983 p 68 - 69.
Finally, always bear in mind what Trotsky said:
"You may not be
interested in Jihad,
But Jihad
is interested in
YOU!"
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