Progressive Liberalism, Fanaticism, Prejudice and Bigotry
Fanaticism is extreme and uncritical adherence to a belief that may be religious or political. Prejudice is any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable without the support of facts or reason. Bigotry is strong and complete intolerance of ideas and opinions that are contrary to one’s belief.
These are qualities that define the leftists, which ironically they project on others.
The progressive leftists, erroneously called liberals believe that all cultures are equal and that everyone is after the same things, namely, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and they viciously attack and vilify anyone who disagrees with them.
This is definitely not true in the case of Muslims. Muslims have completely different worldview and ideals that are diametrically opposed to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
True Muslims believe in martyrdom and death. They believe this life is only a test and all that counts is to lay their lives in the path of Allah. To do so they must hate the non-Muslims and kill them in jihad until they are killed. The Quran says, “the life of this world is only a deceiving enjoyment.” [57:20]
Muhammad gave great emphasis in sacrificing this life for the sake of the next and the way to do that, he explained, is through jihad. Ibn Kathir on the authority of Abu Huraira wrote, “Messenger of Allah said: Allah has undertaken to look after the affairs of one who goes out to fight in His way believing in Him and affirming the truth of His Apostles. He is committed to His care that He will either admit him to Paradise or bring him back to his home from where he set out with a reward or (his share of) booty. By the Being in Whose Hand is the life of Muhammad, if a person gets wounded in the way of Allah, he will come on the Day of Judgment with his wound in the same condition as it was when it was first inflicted; its color being the color of blood but its smell will be the smell of musk. By the Being in Whose Hand is Muhammad’s life, if it were not to be too hard upon the Muslims I would not lag behind any expedition which is going to fight in the cause of Allah. I love to fight in the way of Allah and be killed, to fight and again be killed and to fight again and be killed.”
No other concept in Islam is emphasized more than jihad. And jihad has only one meaning; to kill and get killed. The claim that jihad also means fight against self is a lie.
The same Abu Huraira said, A man came to Muhammad and said “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” He replied, “I do not find such a deed.”
Like most cults Islam is a cult of death. In Understanding Muhammad and Muslims I recounted the story of a Palestinian mother whose infant’s life was saved thanks to a donation of $55,000 by an Israeli Jew. She verbalized the Islamic concept of worthlessness of life most eloquently.
The baby was being treated and needed bone marrow transplant. Shlomi Eldar, the Gaza correspondent for Israeli Channel 10 News, was assigned to make a documentary about the operation called “Precious Life.” But when he met Raida Abu Mustafa, the mother of the child, she launched into a painful monologue about the culture of the shaheeds (martyrs) and admitted, during the complex transplant process, that she would like to see her son perpetrate a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem.
“Jerusalem is ours,” she declared. “We are all for Jerusalem, the whole nation, not just a million, all of us. Do you understand what that means — all of us?”
She also explained exactly what she had in mind. “For us, death is a natural thing. We are not frightened of death. From the smallest infant, to the oldest person, we will all sacrifice ourselves for the sake of Jerusalem. We feel we have the right to it. You’re free to be angry, so be angry.”
Eldar asked, “Then why are you fighting to save your son’s life, if you say that death is a usual thing for your people?” she smiled at him and said, “It is a regular thing. Life is not precious. Life is precious, but not for us. For us, life is nothing, not worth a thing. That is why we have so many suicide bombers. They are not afraid of death. None of us, not even the children, are afraid of death. It is natural for us. After Mohammed gets well, I will certainly want him to be a shaheed. If it’s for Jerusalem, then there’s no problem. For you it is hard, I know; with us there are cries of rejoicing and happiness when someone falls as a shaheed. For us a shaheed is a tremendous thing.”
Muslim’s entire thought revolves around death. They are told that the fastest way to Paradise is to get killed while killing someone else.
The concept of liberty and democracy are alien to Muslim psyche. Muslims believe that democracy is in contradiction with Islam’s concept of the sovereignty of Allah’s law. In democracy the laws are made by men. In Islam the laws are given by Allah and the governor’s duty is to execute the prescribed law. He is therefore known as caliph of representative. All Muslim jurists agree that Islam is not compatible with democracy.
The fact that Islamic parties sometimes use the electoral system to come to power should not be confused with democracy. Democracy ends the moment they attain their goal.
Not only Islam considers imposition of faith legitimate, it prescribes death to those who try to leave it. Not only the believers but even the non-Muslims are told how to dress and behave and how to shut up and never express their views if they are contrary to Islam. Liberty and Islam cannot co-exist.
As for the pursuit of happiness, this too has a very different meaning to Muslims. The misunderstanding arises in the fact that Muslims use the same vocabulary that we use but understand it very differently.
Abdullah M. Khoui, Director of theIslamiccentre.com clarifies: “Even though happiness has global meaning, it means different things to different people. It mainly depends on people’s background and their upbringing, as well as their ethical education. To some people, happiness means wealth; to others, it means position, and still to others, it means power and control. Even though these factors are the means to happiness, they are not the ends. Islam teaches that human happiness does not originate from any of these above mentioned factors, and to a believer, a Muslim, happiness has a very different meaning. To better understand the meaning of happiness in Islam, Anas narrated the Prophet (Pbuh) as saying, “Whoever’s concern was the afterlife, Allah makes his richness between his eyes, gathers his inner self, and the worldly life will come to him with compliance. And whoever’s concern was for the worldly life, Allah will make his poverty between his eyes, disunite him and he will not get anything from this worldly life except what has been written for him.” [Tirmidi]
As it is clear, for Muslims happiness is attained through Islam and as explained about, the best way to do that is through jihad. The happiness of Muslim lies in killing non-Muslims. If he survives he well be rewarded with the wealth of his victim and if he is killed he will go to paradise banging virgins.
Of course not everyone seeks happiness in material gains as Mr. Khoui believes. Many people, like Mother Teresa, find their happiness in serving their fellow beings and spreading the love of God among His creatures. I find my happiness in rescuing Muslims from the darkness of their faith and giving them the light of understanding. This truly gives me great happiness and for that I forego many material pleasures. This concept however, is beyond the ken of a Muslim. Not even Muhammad could understand it. So we can’t blame Mr. Khoui for assuming that everyone is after material gain in this world or sexual gratification in the other.
I don’t wish to make this article too long, but I hope I have made it clear that Muslims are not after the same things that the rest of us are.
We often hear Muslim jihadis say, “we love death as you love life.” This formulation is originated at the Battle of Qadesiyya in the year 636, when the commander of the Muslims, Khalid ibn Al-Walid, sent an emissary with a message from Caliph Abu Bakr to the Persian commander, Khosro stating: “You [Persians] should convert to Islam, and then you will be safe, for if you don’t, you should know that I have come to you with an army of men that love death, as you love life.”
Muslims consider the love for death as the proof of faith. The Quran says: “…then seek for death, if you are sincere.”(Q.2:94) In another place Muhammad challenged the Jews to desire death in order to prove that they are truthful. Say: “O ye that stand on Judaism! If ye think that ye are friends to Allah, to the exclusion of (other) men, then express your desire for Death, if ye are truthful.” (Q.62:6)
It is a mistake to project our own values on others. Muslims are very different people. They come from a parallel universe where nothing is what it is because everything is what it is not. They will never integrate, will never assimilate and as soon as they become strong they will subdue their hosts and kill them and rape their women as they did in Medina and virtually everywhere else they conquered, either through invasion or through immigration.
The belief that Muslims can integrate or that they want the same things that others want is fanaticism because it is not so. It is prejudice because it is based on ignorance. And attacking those who know better is bigotry. This belief is a lie and is deadly.
The young Muslims in the following video are second or perhaps third generation immigrants. See their opinion of their hosts and the country that gave them refuge and in all likelihood pays their livelihood. A great percentage of Muslims depend on welfare.
https://youtu.be/qv5WlxjLe7s
The following video shows Muslim refugees in Germany attacking and beating a German woman with her child leaving her unconscious in the street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-RBMGDozk
This is a report of Muslim refugees raping a 7 year old German girl
https://youtu.be/zMu3o7_Y9Jw
And this is what they do to white women who are so stupid to travel to an Islamic country
https://youtu.be/LzMgZUliX_4
Islam is incompatible with western values and Muslims are incompatible with humanity. There is no hope and no other solution than segregation.
We have to put an end to Muslims immigration. We have to ban Islam, shut down the mosques and deport the Muslims who refuse to integrate and insist in wearing their Islamic clothing. That is their sign of Islamic supremacy and it must be banned.
Frankly, I don’t even trust ex-Muslims anymore. While many of them claim to have left Islam they find it hard to cleanse themselves from its filth. It is like emerging out of the cesspool without taking a shower or changing their clothes. They have left Islam intellectually but emotionally they are still tied to their Muslim families who are still savages. A perfect example is Obama who stands with Muslims even when he claims to have left Islam. Other examples are the Persian Maryam Namazi or Bangladeshi Taslima Nasrin. There is no doubt that these women hate Islam. But they will stand with Muslims in every conflict, hate Israel and support Palestinian terrorists.
Islam takes away people’s humanity and reduces them into brainless zombies. It may take more than one generation for ex-Muslims to get rid of Islamic sickness. The damage is done to the way they think and it affects every fiber of their being. The recovery is painful and long. Perhaps if they find God the process can become easier. But that is a personal path. Many ex-Muslims become atheist and adopt progressive leftism. They leave one mental disease for another.
After watching these videos posted above I can only say that Europeans appears to be cluless as to what they have done to themselves by way of inviting hundreds and thousands of these ‘refugees’ amongst their midst without realising the consequences. Hope they come out in one piece in the end…sigh…
It is a very well known fact that Islam is the most violent and disgraceful religion. They take pride in killings of men and children. They take immense pleasure in raping of non Muslim women wherever they can. They think it is a service to Allah. It clearly means Muslims see Allah as a killer, fucker and butcher and they are bound to follow him.
@Certainly Doubtful
Some points which need clarification. Firstly, atheism is not a political ideology (not that I’m accusing you of suggesting it is, but some readers may fall for the confusion). There are atheist nihilists, anarchists, nationalists, conservatives, libertarians, marxists, etc.//
Yes, Atheism can be what ever an Atheist want it to be. Your examples are proof of that. Notice that I put Atheism and Atheist in capital letters because it’s an ideology with faithful adherents just like Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, etc.
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The term is actually quite boring and minimal; it is merely a response to the following question “is there a supernatural being? Yes/No”. In other words, it is of binary value. For some contrast, consider that many anti-leftist intellectuals were also atheist (Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman just to name a few)//
Also yes, Atheism is binary, as it goes from absolutes (1) to the complete rejection of absolutes (0). It is in this void (0) where the Atheist feels most liberating as he freely gets to conjure up his own ethical principles which changes daily or as the moment arises.
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Evermore, there are many instances in which non-leftist atheist intellectuals are vilified by their leftwing peers particularly on these philosophical grounds.//
I think you’ve missed the target. The claim is not “all Atheists are Leftists” but rather ” most, if not all Leftists are Atheists”. I can say with conviction the Left is over-populated with Atheists. And you are also correct once again, Atheists have a history of chewing up their own from both within the Left and non-Left.
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Secondly, we should distinguish between classical liberalism and modern (progressive) liberalism. The former is more associated today with what we may call libertarianism. In fact, in Europe identifying as a liberal probably means that you support individual liberty, free markets, social freedom, and other humanist values. For some reason, in America the term has been corroded and hijacked by the political left.//
Agreed, Liberalism in America means something different outside of it. Regardless, it seems your philosophy is shaped by your Liberal political leanings. Or is your political ideology shaped by your philosophy? This seems like the chicken and egg scenario, which came first? Philosophy (Atheism/Materialism) or politics (Leftism/Liberalism)?
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The great libertarian economists Frederich Hayek and Milton Friedman both defended classical liberalism in their works; the enlightenment philosophers were essentially liberals. Call me a nostalgic, but I believe the term should be reclaimed from its abusers. Progressives dont view society as a composition of individuals, but rather an indivisible collectivity. On the other hand liberalism, in its classical and historical context, is about defending freedom of the individual against the assault of tyranny (be it theocratic or otherwise)//
From whence the political ideology? And is it congruent with the Atheists’ overall philosophical viewpoint, such as the rejection of absolute morals and truths. Unless the above questions can be answered, I think it hasty to draw any conclusions
As the all those brutal callous sexual assaults the occurred at the start of the news year in the city of Cologne by those Muslim immigrants. Such sex assaults also happened in other German cities as well as in cities such as Austria , Finland and other nations. Getting back the subject of the Germany those Muslims who engaged in such awful and terrible behavior were showing their ungrateful and unthankful attitude to the people of Germany who were so kind yet so foolish of allowing them to enter in the their country to live. Just look at the outcome, or fruits, of such kindness. What’s more those Muslim thugs by ganging together against those German girls and women have proven themselves to be cowards by their heinous actions against those German females In addition to all this three things need to be made known. First,by their lawless and violent criminal behavior those Muslim immigrant are showing the total arrogant contempt for Westerner, Western government , Western laws and Western civilization . Therefore if there is real bigotry, in this case, it’s the bigotry of those Muslims .Not the Germans. Second,by their ruthless and hideous behavior those Muslims are showing the Islamic dis-like and even hate foe people who are non-Muslims. Third,those Muslims who were behaving in such brutally vile and violent actions towards those German girls and women were also exposing the terrible spirit of misogyny that is so much part of the essence of Islam. As explain by Brigitte Gabriel , who is the founder and head of actforamerica.org , in her book which in entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED. Which informs the reader that “Women in Islam are consider unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” Indeed, they must be stopped !
@Certainly Doubtful
Thank you for your comment. You made a very important point about the difference between classical liberalism and the new usage of this word in USA, which is rather progressive socialism/Marxism and not liberal at all. I changed the title of this article to reflect that.
I was an atheist for about 17 years and very much liberal while I was conservative in my political views and still am.
It is very important to point out that progressive Marxists are not liberals in any sense of the world, except perhaps in regards to sexual liberation. Liberals believe in the first and the second amendment. Progressive Marxists don’t believe in either. Liberals believe in freedom of individual. Progressives Marxists believe in collectivism.
I should have made that clear in the article and thank you for pointing that out. In fact Obama, Namazi and Nasrin’s handicap is not their atheistic belief, but their Marxist ideology.
The same can be said about Pope Francis. I assume he does believe in God, whatever his definition of God is. His problem is his that he is more a socialist than a Christian or perhaps he believes Jesus was a socialist as many catholic priests I met in South America used to believe.
The pre-Muhammad meaning of jihad was spiritual “fight against self” but as with the meaning of many other old Arabic words, he changed its meaning to war-call “fight against the others”.
Some points which need clarification. Firstly, atheism is not a political ideology (not that I’m accusing you of suggesting it is, but some readers may fall for the confusion). There are atheist nihilists, anarchists, nationalists, conservatives, libertarians, marxists, etc. In fact, atheism can be traced back centuries before the term “political left” was even born. The term is actually quite boring and minimal; it is merely a response to the following question “is there a supernatural being? Yes/No”. In other words, it is of binary value. For some contrast, consider that many anti-leftist intellectuals were also atheist (Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman just to name a few). Evermore, there are many instances in which non-leftist atheist intellectuals are vilified by their leftwing peers particularly on these philosophical grounds.
Secondly, we should distinguish between classical liberalism and modern (progressive) liberalism. The former is more associated today with what we may call libertarianism. In fact, in Europe identifying as a liberal probably means that you support individual liberty, free markets, social freedom, and other humanist values. For some reason, in America the term has been corroded and hijacked by the political left. The great libertarian economists Frederich Hayek and Milton Friedman both defended classical liberalism in their works; the enlightenment philosophers were essentially liberals. Call me a nostalgic, but I believe the term should be reclaimed from its abusers. Progressives dont view society as a composition of individuals, but rather an indivisible collectivity. On the other hand liberalism, in its classical and historical context, is about defending freedom of the individual against the assault of tyranny (be it theocratic or otherwise).
Perhaps this is all semantics….