4:12
Human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accused authorities in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of torturing and sexually abusing some of the country’s most high-profile dissidents and human rights activists.
According to detailed testimony published by Amnesty International, “activists were repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly,” leading to one of the victims repeatedly trying to take her own life:
In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks.According to the testimonies obtained, the human rights defenders were unable to walk or stand properly, had uncontrolled shaking of the hands, and marks on the body. One of the activists reportedly attempted to take her own life repeatedly inside the prison. Prison authorities in Dhahban Prison have also reportedly warned detained activists against disclosing any accounts of torture or prison procedures to family members.
This testimony was also corroborated by “informed sources” who spoke with Human Rights Watch, who reported on similar cases of torture and sexual abuse:
The reports allege that torture by Saudi authorities included administering electric shocks, whipping the women on their thighs, and forcible hugging and kissing, Human Rights Watch said today. The sources were concerned that they and the activists would suffer reprisals if the women were identified publicly.The sources say that masked Saudi interrogators tortured the women during the initial stages of interrogation, but it was unclear whether they were seeking to force the women to sign confessions or merely to punish them for their peaceful advocacy. Following the interrogations, sources said, the women showed physical signs of torture, including difficulty walking, uncontrolled shaking of the hands, and red marks and scratches on their faces and necks. At least one of the women attempted to commit suicide multiple times, the sources said.
The Saudi government has held the activists in the Dhahban prison on the western Red Sea coast since May, following a crackdown on women’s rights campaigners charged with trying to “destabilize” the Kingdom and supposed links with “suspicious” entities working outside the country.
The women were principally campaigning for the establishment of equal women’s rights in the face of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s reforms to various aspects of Saudi’s religious law, which include allowing women to drive cars.
On Wednesday, the Saudi government strongly denied all allegations of torture, claiming the activists were subject to the “standard judiciary process.”
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s judiciary system does not condone, promote, or allow the use of torture. Anyone, whether male or female, being investigated is going through the standard judiciary process led by the public prosecution while being held for questioning, which does not in any way rely on torture either physical, sexual, or psychological,” a Saudi official said.
The Islamic kingdom has come under growing international condemnation in recent weeks following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s embassy in Istanbul last month. Principal suspects in the case include members of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s inner circle, although he has denied any connection to the killing.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. would not pursue the allegations against the country involving Khashoggi further for fear of jeopardizing business and security relationship, despite growing criticism of the country’s appalling human rights record.
“It’s a very simple equation for me. I’m about making America great again and I’m about America first,” Trump said in his statement. “We may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi. In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They have been a great ally in our very important fight against Iran.”
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MUSLIMS ARE THE GODLESS CULT OF MURDER, RAPE AND HATE
November 21, 2018
When Muslims Rape European White Women, Whose Fault Is It?
European women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men. Such is the latest position – the latest apologia – being offered by those dedicated to exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in the context of accepting more Muslim migrants into the West.
On October 14, seven Muslim migrants raped a teenage German girl in a park, after drugging her at a disco in Freiburg. (At least she survived; in a similar case that occurred a week earlier in Italy, the drugged rape victim was left murdered.) Bernhard Rotzinger, the police chief of Freiburg, responded bysaying, "We cannot offer citizens an all-risk insurance [against crime], but I can advise this: Don't make yourself vulnerable by using alcohol or drugs."
Similarly, after mobs of Muslim migrants sexually assaulted as many as one thousand women on New Year's Eve 2016 in Cologne, Germany, the city's mayor, Henriette Reker, called on the women, the victims – not their male rapists – to make changes: "The women and young girls have to be more protected in the future so these things don't happen again. This means they should go out and have fun, but they need to be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young women can read through to prepare themselves."
Such advice against alcohol, drugs, and reckless behavior would be more respectable had it not been made under duress. As it is, it is a cop-out. Or, as a November 8 report discussing the aforementioned rape in Freiburg puts it, "[t]he focus on prevention is a good thing, but also shows how German authorities and media barely hold the migrant crisis responsible for the disaster that is unfolding in Germany. Political correctness has caused officials to put the blame for the criminal acts on the women instead of Merkel's guests."
These are hardly the first times officials "put the blame for the criminal acts [of Muslim men] on the women." Nor is this phenomenon limited to Germany. For instance, after a 20-year-old Austrian woman waiting at a bus stop in Vienna was attacked, beaten, and robbed by four Muslim men – including one who "started [by] putting his hands through my hair and made it clear that in his cultural background there were hardly any blonde women" – police responded by telling the victim to dye her hair:
At first I was scared, but now I'm more angry than anything. After the attack they told me that women shouldn't be alone on the streets after 8pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative way. Indirectly that means I was partly to blame for what happened to me. That is a massive insult.
Likewise, Unni Wikan, a female professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo in Norway, insists that "'Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes,' because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative. The professor's conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite: 'Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.'"
So much for the feminist claim that women are free to dress and behave as promiscuously and provocatively as they want – and woe to any man who dares cite this as justifying his sexual aggression. Apparently, this feminist refrain does not apply to Muslim men.
But perhaps the greater irony of all these excuses is that, from the very start of Islam 14 centuries ago, European women – even chaste nuns – have always been portrayed by Muslims as sexually promiscuous by nature.
This is easily discerned by examining medieval Muslim perceptions – and subsequent treatment – of European women, as documented throughout Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (see American Thinker review here). Consider Muslim views concerning neighboring Byzantine women, who came to represent all European or Christian women to Islam.
As one Western academic of Muslim origin (rather euphemistically) explains:
The Byzantines as a people were considered fine examples of physical beauty, and youthful slaves and slave-girls of Byzantine origins were highly valued. ... The Arabs' appreciation of the Byzantine female has a long history indeed. For the Islamic period, the earliest literary evidence we have is a hadith (saying of the Prophet). Muhammad is said to have addressed a newly converted Arab: "Would you like the girls of Banu al-Asfar [the yellow (haired?) or pale people]?"
Muhammad's question was meant to entice the man to join the Tabuk campaign against the Romans and reap its rewards – in this case, the sexual enslavement of attractive women. In other words, as "white-complexioned blondes, with straight hair and blue eyes," to quote another academic, Byzantine women were not so much "appreciated" or "highly valued" as they were lusted after. (All quotes in this article are sourced from and documented in Sword and Scimitar.)
Any sense of compliment ends there. Muslims habitually portrayed Europe's Christian women, as contemptible and corrupt infidels, beginning with those they first encountered in neighboring Byzantium, as sexually promiscuous by nature – perhaps simply to support the fantasy that they were eager to be sexually enslaved. Thus, for Abu Uthman al-Jahiz (b. 776), a prolific court scholar, the females of Constantinople were the "most shameless women in the whole world"; "they find sex more enjoyable" and "are prone to adultery." Abd al-Jabbar (b. 935), another prominent scholar, claimed that "adultery is commonplace in the cities and markets of Byzantium" – so much so that even "the nuns from the convents went out to the fortresses to offer themselves to monks."
For all these reasons and more, European women, typified by neighboring Eastern Roman women, became Islam's "beautiful femme fatale who makes men lose their self-control," as Nadia Maria el-Cheikh, author of Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, explains:
Our [Arab-Muslim] sources show not Byzantine women but writers' images of these women, who served as symbols of the eternal female – constantly a potential threat, particularly due to blatant exaggerations of their sexual promiscuity. In our texts, Byzantine women are strongly associated with sexual immorality[.] ... While the one quality that our [Muslim] sources never deny is the beauty of Byzantine women, the image that they create in describing these women is anything but beautiful. Their depictions are, occasionally, excessive, virtually caricatures, overwhelmingly negative.
Such fevered fantasies – which "are clearly far from Byzantine reality" – existed only in the minds of Muslim men and "must be recognized for what they are: attempts to denigrate and defame a rival culture. ... In fact, in Byzantium, women were expected to be retiring, shy, modest, and devoted to their families and religious observances. ... The behavior of most women in Byzantium was a far cry from the depictions that appear in Arabic sources."
Clearly, little has changed some 1,400 years after the founding of Islam: European women continue to be seen as naturally promiscuous and thus provoking Muslim men into raping them.
Thus, in the United Kingdom, a Muslim man explained to a British woman why he was raping her: "you white women are good at it." Another Muslim man called a 13-year-old virgin "a little white slag" – British slang for "loose, promiscuous woman" – before raping her.
In Germany, a group of Muslim "refugees" stalked a 25-year-old woman, hurled "filthy" insults at her, and taunted her for sex. They too explained their logic to her – "German girls are just there for sex" – before reaching into her blouse and groping her. A Muslim man who almost killed his 25-year-old German victim while raping her – and shouting "Allah!" – asked afterward if she enjoyed it.
In Austria, an "Arabic-looking man" approached a 27-year-old woman at a bus stop, pulled down his pants, and "all he could say was sex, sex, sex," prompting the woman to scream and flee.
In Australia, a Muslim cabbie groped and insulted his female passengers, including by saying, "All Australian women are sluts and deserve to be raped."
In short, the ancient Islamic motif concerning the alleged promiscuity of European women is alive and well – irrespective of the latter's behavior – and continues justifying the Muslim rape of Western women.
Yet, even in this, Islam can turn to those "progressive," godless elements that dominate Western society for cover. For, just as "the Left" has worked long and hard to portray Islamic intolerance, violence, and terrorism as the West's fault – because of the crusades, because of colonialism, because of cartoons, because of Israel, because of freedom of speech – it now adds "because of Western promiscuity" to the list of reasons that "provoke" Muslims to behave like Muslims.
(For many more examples of Muslims sexually objectifying Western women throughout history, see the author's new book, Sword and Scimitar.)
MUSLIMS ARE THE GODLESS CULT OF MURDER, RAPE AND HATE
November 21, 2018
When Muslims Rape European White Women, Whose Fault Is It?
European women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men. Such is the latest position – the latest apologia – being offered by those dedicated to exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in the context of accepting more Muslim migrants into the West.
On October 14, seven Muslim migrants raped a teenage German girl in a park, after drugging her at a disco in Freiburg. (At least she survived; in a similar case that occurred a week earlier in Italy, the drugged rape victim was left murdered.) Bernhard Rotzinger, the police chief of Freiburg, responded bysaying, "We cannot offer citizens an all-risk insurance [against crime], but I can advise this: Don't make yourself vulnerable by using alcohol or drugs."
Similarly, after mobs of Muslim migrants sexually assaulted as many as one thousand women on New Year's Eve 2016 in Cologne, Germany, the city's mayor, Henriette Reker, called on the women, the victims – not their male rapists – to make changes: "The women and young girls have to be more protected in the future so these things don't happen again. This means they should go out and have fun, but they need to be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young women can read through to prepare themselves."
Such advice against alcohol, drugs, and reckless behavior would be more respectable had it not been made under duress. As it is, it is a cop-out. Or, as a November 8 report discussing the aforementioned rape in Freiburg puts it, "[t]he focus on prevention is a good thing, but also shows how German authorities and media barely hold the migrant crisis responsible for the disaster that is unfolding in Germany. Political correctness has caused officials to put the blame for the criminal acts on the women instead of Merkel's guests."
These are hardly the first times officials "put the blame for the criminal acts [of Muslim men] on the women." Nor is this phenomenon limited to Germany. For instance, after a 20-year-old Austrian woman waiting at a bus stop in Vienna was attacked, beaten, and robbed by four Muslim men – including one who "started [by] putting his hands through my hair and made it clear that in his cultural background there were hardly any blonde women" – police responded by telling the victim to dye her hair:
At first I was scared, but now I'm more angry than anything. After the attack they told me that women shouldn't be alone on the streets after 8pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative way. Indirectly that means I was partly to blame for what happened to me. That is a massive insult.
Likewise, Unni Wikan, a female professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo in Norway, insists that "'Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes,' because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative. The professor's conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite: 'Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.'"
So much for the feminist claim that women are free to dress and behave as promiscuously and provocatively as they want – and woe to any man who dares cite this as justifying his sexual aggression. Apparently, this feminist refrain does not apply to Muslim men.
But perhaps the greater irony of all these excuses is that, from the very start of Islam 14 centuries ago, European women – even chaste nuns – have always been portrayed by Muslims as sexually promiscuous by nature.
This is easily discerned by examining medieval Muslim perceptions – and subsequent treatment – of European women, as documented throughout Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (see American Thinker review here). Consider Muslim views concerning neighboring Byzantine women, who came to represent all European or Christian women to Islam.
As one Western academic of Muslim origin (rather euphemistically) explains:
The Byzantines as a people were considered fine examples of physical beauty, and youthful slaves and slave-girls of Byzantine origins were highly valued. ... The Arabs' appreciation of the Byzantine female has a long history indeed. For the Islamic period, the earliest literary evidence we have is a hadith (saying of the Prophet). Muhammad is said to have addressed a newly converted Arab: "Would you like the girls of Banu al-Asfar [the yellow (haired?) or pale people]?"
Muhammad's question was meant to entice the man to join the Tabuk campaign against the Romans and reap its rewards – in this case, the sexual enslavement of attractive women. In other words, as "white-complexioned blondes, with straight hair and blue eyes," to quote another academic, Byzantine women were not so much "appreciated" or "highly valued" as they were lusted after. (All quotes in this article are sourced from and documented in Sword and Scimitar.)
Any sense of compliment ends there. Muslims habitually portrayed Europe's Christian women, as contemptible and corrupt infidels, beginning with those they first encountered in neighboring Byzantium, as sexually promiscuous by nature – perhaps simply to support the fantasy that they were eager to be sexually enslaved. Thus, for Abu Uthman al-Jahiz (b. 776), a prolific court scholar, the females of Constantinople were the "most shameless women in the whole world"; "they find sex more enjoyable" and "are prone to adultery." Abd al-Jabbar (b. 935), another prominent scholar, claimed that "adultery is commonplace in the cities and markets of Byzantium" – so much so that even "the nuns from the convents went out to the fortresses to offer themselves to monks."
For all these reasons and more, European women, typified by neighboring Eastern Roman women, became Islam's "beautiful femme fatale who makes men lose their self-control," as Nadia Maria el-Cheikh, author of Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, explains:
Our [Arab-Muslim] sources show not Byzantine women but writers' images of these women, who served as symbols of the eternal female – constantly a potential threat, particularly due to blatant exaggerations of their sexual promiscuity. In our texts, Byzantine women are strongly associated with sexual immorality[.] ... While the one quality that our [Muslim] sources never deny is the beauty of Byzantine women, the image that they create in describing these women is anything but beautiful. Their depictions are, occasionally, excessive, virtually caricatures, overwhelmingly negative.
Such fevered fantasies – which "are clearly far from Byzantine reality" – existed only in the minds of Muslim men and "must be recognized for what they are: attempts to denigrate and defame a rival culture. ... In fact, in Byzantium, women were expected to be retiring, shy, modest, and devoted to their families and religious observances. ... The behavior of most women in Byzantium was a far cry from the depictions that appear in Arabic sources."
Clearly, little has changed some 1,400 years after the founding of Islam: European women continue to be seen as naturally promiscuous and thus provoking Muslim men into raping them.
Thus, in the United Kingdom, a Muslim man explained to a British woman why he was raping her: "you white women are good at it." Another Muslim man called a 13-year-old virgin "a little white slag" – British slang for "loose, promiscuous woman" – before raping her.
In Germany, a group of Muslim "refugees" stalked a 25-year-old woman, hurled "filthy" insults at her, and taunted her for sex. They too explained their logic to her – "German girls are just there for sex" – before reaching into her blouse and groping her. A Muslim man who almost killed his 25-year-old German victim while raping her – and shouting "Allah!" – asked afterward if she enjoyed it.
In Austria, an "Arabic-looking man" approached a 27-year-old woman at a bus stop, pulled down his pants, and "all he could say was sex, sex, sex," prompting the woman to scream and flee.
In Australia, a Muslim cabbie groped and insulted his female passengers, including by saying, "All Australian women are sluts and deserve to be raped."
In short, the ancient Islamic motif concerning the alleged promiscuity of European women is alive and well – irrespective of the latter's behavior – and continues justifying the Muslim rape of Western women.
Yet, even in this, Islam can turn to those "progressive," godless elements that dominate Western society for cover. For, just as "the Left" has worked long and hard to portray Islamic intolerance, violence, and terrorism as the West's fault – because of the crusades, because of colonialism, because of cartoons, because of Israel, because of freedom of speech – it now adds "because of Western promiscuity" to the list of reasons that "provoke" Muslims to behave like Muslims.
(For many more examples of Muslims sexually objectifying Western women throughout history, see the author's new book, Sword and Scimitar.)
BARACK OBAMA and his SAUDIS PAYMASTERS: Did they build his Muslim tower
in Chicago?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/swamp-keeper-trump-claims-fake-news-is.html
“QURAN SAYS KILL PEOPLE LIKE YOU. WE WILL KILL
YOU.”
“QURAN SAYS KILL PEOPLE LIKE YOU. WE WILL KILL
YOU.”
Not much attention is
paid to the rising Islamic influence in Scotland. Aside from the Glasgow
Airport attack, there hasn't been much in the way of terrorism. And so it's
flown under the radar.
The likes of Osama Saeed and Hamza Yousaf are the
SNP's new defenders of Scottish values. Osama Saeed was also a Scottish
National Party candidate and an adviser to Prime Minister Salmond.
Osama Saeed, named one of Scotland's Top 100 thinkers and
opinion formers, wrote an article for The Guardian championing the
return of the Caliphate. "A restored caliphate," Osama explained,
"is entirely compatible with democratically accountable
institutions." It would be just like the EU, except its leader would be
called a Caliph, its law would be Sharia and if the US and Britain are really
sincere about helping Muslims, they should support the restoration of the Caliphate.
In an astoundingly short time, the Scottish National Party has
gone from collaborating with Nazis, to collaborating with Islamists. Its talk
of Scottish values has become a farce. SNP candidate Humza Yousaf took his oath
of allegiance in the Scottish Parliament in Urdu. Jahangir Hanif became
known as the Kalashnikov Councilor over a video of him firing an
AK-47 in an armed camp in Pakistan. And the SNP has funneled hundreds of
thousands of pounds to the Scottish Islamic Foundation
Paigham Mustafa and his family have been offered protection
by police after several fundamentalists branded him a
"Kafir", which means disbeliever, and issued death threats.
Mustafa claims to be living under a fatwa issued in 2001 by 15
imams in Glasgow after he published a series of articles questioning
mosque teachings. The married father of three later published his book The
Quran: God's Message to Mankind, his interpretation of the central religious
text of Islam.
Last week, a letter written by Mustafa questioning the practice
of fasting during Ramadan was published and subsequently posted on Facebook.
In a series of threatening messages under the post, one critic
said: “Shut up or else you will get your head chopped off … shut up or else you
will be beheaded … shut up you Kafir dog … you will get beheaded … we will kill
you kafir.”
A separate message sent privately by another critic said: “Quran
says kill people like you. You deserve to be killed. We will kill you.”
Another post by a third critic warned: “Don’t talk about Islam
you Kafir. Remove this post Kafir. Or else you will get killed like Rashad
Khalifa.”
Mustafa fears he will be targeted by fundamentalists in the UK
and compared himself to Asad Shah, who was stabbed to death in a
religiously-motivated murder in Glasgow in 2016. Shah’s killer, Tanveer Ahmed,
said Shah had “disrespected the messenger of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad”.
o place is safe. No place is immune. Not when the doors to migration are open.
A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A peaceful muslim
is praying that a radical muslim cuts your head off.
ISLAM: FROM THE DELUSIONAL TO THE
DANGEROUS
A 1,400-year-old primeval testimony of indoctrination and conquest.
o place is safe. No place is immune. Not when the doors to migration are open.
A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A peaceful muslim
is praying that a radical muslim cuts your head off.
ISLAM: FROM THE DELUSIONAL TO THE
DANGEROUS
A 1,400-year-old primeval testimony of indoctrination and conquest.
October 3, 2018
It has been widely asserted by many
psychologists that human beings act upon their beliefs. Well, if this is true, we can deduce that beliefs direct people
in life, and while some beliefs are harmless, some are the motivating force for
good, others are delusional, misguided, and even outright dangerous.
In my opinion, every version of the belief
called “Islam” ranges from the delusional to the dangerous.
Islam is a fantasy, birthed by Muhammad’s
delusion that he relayed to his first wife and employer, Khadija. Greatly
frightened, he told Khadija that he was visited by a jinn (devil) in the Hira
cave. Khadija comforted the distraught man by assuring him that the episode was
Allah’s way of choosing him as his messenger.
Muhammad believed his rich wife/employer,
who was 15 years his senior and the delusion became a belief: Islam. Remarkably
enough, under the early tutelage of Khadija, Muhammad succeeded in attracting
influential followers. Before long, the movement gathered more and more power
through violent campaigns, and the faith was taken to new people and foreign
lands.
This impressive delusion, Islam, presently
has in its stranglehold in over a billion humans, posing an existential threat
to all non-Muslims.
Islam is rooted in the primitive tribal
mentality of “Us against Them,” “We the righteous against the heathens,” “We
the servants submissive to the Great Allah against the rebellious enemies of
Allah.” Islam is a polarizer. Islam is an enemy-maker. To Islam, a non-Muslim
is a combatant against Allah, and he is fair game to be subjugated and killed.
When some billion and a half people adhere to the pathological belief of Islam
and use it as their marching orders for life, the rest of humanity can ignore
the threat only at its own peril.
After 1400 years, Islam is still on a
campaign of conquest throughout the known world. Hordes of life-in-hand
foot-soldier fanatical Muslims are striving to kill and get killed. All they
want is the opportunity to discharge their homicidal-suicidal impulse, on their
way to Allah’s promised glorious afterlife. And in the background, granting the
foot-soldiers’ wishes, are their handlers, the puppeteers, who pull the strings
and detonate these human bombs.
Those who cherish life must recognize these
emissaries of death, what makes them, what motivates them, and how best to
defend against them. The campaign of death waged by these Islamic jihadists, be
he a puppet or a puppeteer, is energized by the belief of delectable rewards
that await the faithful implementer of Allah’s dictates.
Through a highly effective indoctrination,
the jihadist has come to believe firmly in Islam’s absolute delusion. He
believes that Allah is the one and only supreme creator of the heavens and the
Earth; that it is his duty and privilege, to abide by Allah’s will and carry
out his plans at all costs. He believes firmly in a gloriously wonderful
immortal afterlife in paradise, for which a martyr’s death is the surest
quickest admission. Although the dominating theme of the delusion is
quasi-spiritual, the promised rewards of the afterlife awaiting the martyr are
sensual and material.
All the things and activities that the
jihadist desires and cannot attain or practice, and rejects in his earthly
life, will be purified and proffered to him in the paradise of the next life.
Thus goes the delusion.
As I have asserted in my previous articles,
it is important to understand that the human mind is not a perfect discerner of
objective reality. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. The outside world
only supplies bits and pieces of raw material that the mind puts together to
form its reality. Depending on the type and number of bits and pieces that a
given mind receives, its reality can be very different from that of another
mind. The more prescribed and homogeneous a group, the greater is the group’s
consensual reality, since the members share much in common, experiential input
and reinforce each other’s’ mindset.
Thus members of a given religious order,
for instance, tend to think much more similarly to one another than to members
of other groups with different experiential histories. Various approximations
of the objective reality, therefore, rule the mind. The degree to which these
approximations deviate from the larger group’s consensual reality determines
its delusional extent and severity.
A methamphetamine user’s reality
is often distorted in a different way. Under the influence of the drug, an
intense paranoia overtakes him. His reality is dominated by the belief that one
or more people are lurking about to harm or kill him. He may wield a deadly
weapon, going from room to room, from closet to closet, in search of the
assailants.
If you believe that a bug is camping deeply
inside your body, then you might go ahead and try to dig the non-existent bug
out. If you believe that people are lurking around the house to harm or kill
you, you go after them before they get to you. If you believe that all the
troubles of the world are due to the evil-doings of the non-Muslims who war
against Allah, then you do all you can to fight and kill them, particularly
since Allah tells you to do so in the Quran. The drug-induced delusions are
hallucinations.
They are dramatic and usually transitory,
while religiously-based implantation of ideas program the mind with lasting
delusions. Delusions, even when they are at great variance from the objective
reality, can rule the mind without the need for drugs, or because of
neurological dysfunctions or other factors. The young and the less-educated are
most vulnerable to believe the claims of charlatans, con artists, and cunning
clerics, as truth and reality.
The repeated intense indoctrination of the
children even changed the perception of some of the charlatan mullahs or the
imams, who believed their own lies and rushed to their own death clinging to
trinkets. Hence some of the puppeteers, in this instance, became puppets
themselves. Such are the folly and fallibility of the human mind.
It is, therefore, understandable that many
of the higher-up Islamic puppeteers, who are usually brainwashed from early
childhood, devote their fortunes and persons to the implementation of their
deeply ingrained delusions. Deluded by the threats and promises of Islam,
Muslims, rich or poor, vie with one another in furthering the violent cause of
Allah.
Many non-Muslims are also victims of a
different, yet just as deadly, delusion. They believe that Islam is a religion
of peace, that only a small minority of Muslims are jihadists, and that Muslims
can be reasoned with to abandon the Quran-mandated elimination of non-believers.
These well-meaning simpletons are just as deluded as the fanatic jihadists by
refusing to acknowledge the fact that one cannot be a Muslim and not abide by
the dictates of the Quran.
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