HOLY BOOKS
Below is another chapter of a sequence of articles that I wrote about a decade ago.
All “holy books” are interesting books of symbolical stories conceived and written by human hands; some also have some fragments of factual History, like the Torah and the Bible attested by thousands of archeological findings in old and new Israel. But they are not History and Science books. Islam takes the Quran as the only book that contains all knowledge. What happens when someone mixes everything and takes a parable, a fantasy, a “human revelation”, a subjective interpretation or an opinion for an historical truth? The World, Life, the Universe become a succession of illusions, knowledge becomes an untouchable mirage and dogmas take the place of all natural inner faith. But those who submit and believe in all this and in nothing else believe this is the only truth and become eternal prisoners of their beliefs.
Some of those who uttered and / or wrote those texts were real and even exceptional human beings, because they were truly good in their souls and in their lives. The way they lived, their principles, ideas and ideals demonstrated that (the Jewish prophets, Jesus (also a Jew from Israel), Buddha, Lao Tse, and many others). But what may we say about those who were dishonest, cruel, autocratic, slavers, killers and demanded their followers to be and do the same? Should anyone take their words as representative of god’s being and will and follow their teachings and commands? That would be absurd and evil. And yet that’s precisely what happened and still happens in Islam.
Some “holy books” also prescribe ways of thinking and living using imaginary stories or episodes of the life of a particular person (a prophet, a saint, a wiseman or wisewoman…). Many of those stories are really instructive, make us reflect upon our own choices and actions; sometimes, even when the characters act wrongly, the purpose is sublime or just point the best way to act in some practical situations. But the entire subjacent moral in these stories is of a religious and ethical kind. The values and actions defended are considered good because someone assumed that was god’s will and decision. And many of those values and actions are actually good by universal ethical standards of any culture and time. But what can we say when those examples and teachings impose to people barbaric values, actions and the total disrespect for humankind?
By any dignifying human standards of the present, or even of the past of many civilizations, Muhammad would be considered a very despicable individual. I don’t need to enunciate here in detail his destructive actions and teachings; anyone can read several biographies by very different authors. And the Quran, with its 114 Surah, and the Hadith (teachings and sayings of the prophet), are available in many languages, printed and online. You just have to read them (choose the most accurate and impartial not the apologetic) to draw your own conclusions. Only Islamic authors will show a positive image of Muhammad, his actions and his teachings, justifying his crimes as legitimate and as being the manifestation of god’s will. How can anyone perfectly reasonable defend such a character and follow his teachings was always a mystery to me. I began to read a lot about religions when I was around 12-year-old and already then it was evident to me how “un-divine” and destructive Islam was in its essence. And my attitude wasn’t unilateral because I also had and have many objections to other religions. Later, I read the Quran and several biographies of Muhammad, by several authors and in different languages. I was still trying to understand how it was possible that any reasonable human being would follow such a “religion”.
It took me some time to understand that after all Islam wasn’t even a religion, was a political ideology that uses god and religion to achieve its purposes: control, manipulate, conquer and dominate the world with its perverse autocratic religious form of governing peoples and nations. In the present I see the addicted followers of Islam as some kind of brainwashed prisoners that accept totally their condition of mental prisoners (a kind of “self mental autocracy”) and want to impose that same way of living to the rest of the world. That’s their model of perfection and happiness!
It is disturbing to verify that Islamic values really correspond to what its holy book prescribes (in all the 30 existing versions written along 100 years starting at least 150 years after the death of the “prophet”) and that no reform was made to make it fairer and human. Or at least the religious leaders should declare that a holy book can’t be taken literally. But why should Islam be reformed if it is so convenient for rulers just like it is? While there’s thirst of autocratic power and there’s still some oil in the Islamic countries most probably no reform will be done. Other reason to this petrified state of Islam teachings and morality has to do with the ignorance of Quran itself. The direct knowledge of Quran, through reading, is even worse than the knowledge of the Bible in the Middle Ages in Europe. The great majority of Islamic followers are illiterate; they can’t even read the Quran, at least in Arabic, they just know Islam by hearsay and clerics preachments. They believe and follow what they hear, no matter how absurd and barbaric it is. So, the holy book of Islam is like a mirage: it exists but it isn’t really known.
Would you blindly follow any fiction book whose author tells you that its content is a direct revelation of the “words of god” even without reading it?
The radical leaders and their uncritical and loyal servants and followers use everything to achieve their purpose, mainly terror and killing as prescribed in their holy book. And to complete this circle of manipulation, civil laws reproduce the religious dogmas and stay unchangeable, the sharia law. Religious cruel laws shape and control by force the lives of believers and unbelievers under an Islamic regime. And this mad model is presented to the world as the only perfect society. As if terror did ever lead to anything good, to any real and lasting “victory” or a sane and peaceful society. But nothing of that is surprising because that was precisely the way Islam was born: jihad, the holy war against the infidel, was the first main imposition of the prophet. He practiced it himself killing those who wouldn’t submit, what makes the prophet just a warlord and his ideology a cult of war and death.
Some analysts and historians call this strategy the “political Islam”. Well, anyone who really knows a little bit of Islam History knows that Islam was a political ideology from the beginning, very similar to any other dictatorial ideology, with or without the personal cult of a leader (Nazism / Hitler, Bolshevism / Leninism / Stalinism, Maoism / Mao Tse Tung, Fascism / Mussolini, “North Koreanism” / Kim Jong Un, “Chavism” / Hugo Chávez, “Madurism” / Nicolás Maduro, Castrism” / Fidel Castro, Putinism / Vladimir Putin…). It is not irrelevant that Hitler admired Islam so much and considered Christianity the religion of the “weak”, because Islam knew how to make war and kill, and Christianism preferred peace and coexistence, at least in his essence and origin… the Inquisition and the systematic pogroms against Jews proved the opposite. Islam and the Russian totalitarianism are also in the root of “Palestinianism”, a pernicious farce formally and publicly created in 1964 by the Russians and Yasser Arafat (PLO), a virus-idea that keeps killing until the present. Before Arafat, the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husayni, became a friend and ally of Hitler and asked him to help to install some kind of extermination camps of Jews in Israel, the ancestral homeland of the Jews, and all over the Middle East. Considering the chronology, one may even assume that Amin al-Husayni, the first founder of “Palestinianism” point the way to Hitler in what concerns the Final Solution. Those camps weren’t built probably because Hitler was too busy exterminating the Jews who were living in Europe.
Monsters by Herbert Pagani, 1964.
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