“The law of Allah is superior to your laws, you cannot oppose and contradict what Allah says,” says the man in the video clip below. He is the man who will interpret for you what Allah says.
The man is a Muslim in the United Kingdom. He is not the only Muslim who believes this. This is what Muslims believe as a group. This is what drives the Islamization of Western society. If we do not stop it now, and that means stop the bearers of this culture-ideology from entering our countries, deport those who are here illegally, and make religious life difficult for those who are not, then Islam will win and you will be a slave to Allah—a totalitarian imaginary.
If you are a woman or homosexual, then this situation should terrify you. If are not terrified, then ask yourself why. You may on account of your own experiences as a member of a marginalized group have an extra degree of empathy for what you perceive as a marginalized people, but your empathy is misplaced. Islam is the paradigm instantiation of clerical fascism in the world today. Muslims are not a marginalized people. They are today’s aggressive colonizers. They meant to destroy Western civilization and make its territories and peoples part of a world Islamic empire.
A lot of progressives and social democrats want this, too, even if they don’t see the end of their politics; their striving to be good allies to Muslims reflects an authoritarian desire that lies at the core of their emotional and personality systems (this is what draws them to their chosen political ideology). They are useful idiots for the sharia supremacist project. Our struggle is therefore not only with the aggressive colonizer, but with his collaborator, the progressive and social democrat of Western societies who have invited the barbarians into our cities.
The assumption behind the cleric’s preachments is that Allah is an a priori and actually-existing thing. But Allah is a social construction. He is a man-made thing. And not an original invention. Allah is a plagiarism of the god that appears in Jewish mythology. Thousands of years ago, the Jews created an entity called Yahweh and put him above everything and used him to mystify the fact that laws either come from nature or from man. Hallucinating encounters with the archangel Gabriel, Muhammad copied and modified Jewish mythology and practice and manufactured a history for a people who did not exist.
Of course, Yahweh is just as imaginary as Allah. There is no god. Angels, devils, and all the rest of it are all imaginary. Man created the supernatural realm. In many cases, he gave god the honey and kept for himself the blues. Man put god in the sky and forget he created god. Now man is ruled over by his own alienated creation, a creation that projects man’s self-loathing (hence prostration before the imaginary), assuages the angst of uncertainty (hence magical thinking), and sublimates his desire to dominate women and children and persecute those who make him feel insecure (hence the patriarchy and misogyny).
The only obstacle to becoming a free thinker is understanding the truth that man created god in this way and that he suffers these consequences because he fails to recognize and acknowledge this truth. As the sociologist W. I. Thomas famously told us, “If men define things as real, then they are real in their consequences.” God is defined into an existence whose only domain is mental, albeit institutions created in the name of god are very real. Belief in god and the desire to be ruled by him is the father form of false consciousness upon which many other forms depend. Overcoming this alienation is the paradigm for overcoming other forms of alienation.
As I have argued, not all religions are bad in the same way. My last essay on Freedom and Reason strived to make this clear with respect to the role rational Christianity played in the Enlightenment and the establishment of the liberal order—the secular republic (see Manufacturing Moral Panic over Christianity). It is neither statements of faith in a creator nor appeals providence that constitute the central problem with belief in a god. Nor is it finding community in religious exercise or conceding to transcendent entities and forces the troubles that escape human agency. It is faith in a god that actively interferes with the history men make and the rules they establish for all to live by. Such a faith in practice is a cover for the tyranny of man over man.
The opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, include these words: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.”Jefferson’s word choice reflects the deism inherent in his worldview. Deism is a philosophical position that asserts the existence of a creator or god but emphasizes reason and natural law rather than religious revelation. Deists believe in a distant, non-interventionist deity who established the laws of nature but then left the world to operate according to those laws. This deity is the personification of scientific understanding.
Man is a result of those natural laws. By invoking these concepts, Jefferson is emphasizing a higher, natural order that transcends human laws. Man must of course write the laws, but he must write them in accord with his understanding of the material world and human nature, not the preachments of an illiterate mad man in a cave near Mecca. Jefferson is arguing that certain rights are inherent to human beings by virtue of their existence, and these rights are not granted by governments or rulers—or gods. The appeal to natural rights is the work of a scientific mind that admits that individuals have fundamental rights that preexist and supersede the establishment of government.
The Declaration of Independence goes on to declare that all men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Jefferson’s use of the term “Creator” is intentionally broad; crucially, the term lies outside of any specific religious doctrine. It reflects the deistic belief in a divine being responsible for the creation of the universe and the rational mind of man who determines the logic and substance of laws based on objective understanding of the nature and needs of man. This philosophical foundation underpins the argument for the justification of the American colonies’ separation from British rule—but, more than that, it stands up a model republic for the world to emulate.
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