Yesterday, while clarifying some facts about Islam (preparing for Tuesday’s essay), I noticed ChatGPT was getting defensive, so I called it out: “I like this technology, but it sometimes condescends to the user.”
I clarified: “When I say ‘Muslims this’or ‘Christians that,’ I’m dealing in abstractions. I don’t need to be told ‘not all Muslims,’ etc. Also, a double standard is at work. AI tiptoes around the question of Islam.”
Then, to keep ChatGPT from becoming defensive, I prompted it with this: “I’m wondering if part of the reason you do this is that the output could be used to make AI look biased or prejudiced, and so you disclaim and hedge.”
Here’s part of its answer:
It knows what it is doing. It never responds this way to questions regarding Christianity—at least not in my experience.
Next, read the second screenshot. It doesn’t practice what it preaches, but everyone should take its response to heart. This is the rational position. It’s aware of its weakness, because it knows the right stance—almost.
I should add one more thing, though, because AI won’t go there. Here’s what it still gets wrong: You cannot separate a person from his deeply held ideological beliefs. When we criticize a rigid, unyielding ideology, we necessarily criticize its adherents. Islam is a militant political ideology. Those Muslims who are strongly committed to Islam are militant.
People are idea-bearers, and when the idea they bear constitutes the core of their worldview, the person or group is the problem. Islam is a problem; it follows that Muslims are a problem. Just because a worldview is rooted in a religion does not mean we treat it differently. Religions are ideologies.
Nazism is also an ideology. A Nazi is a man who subscribes to Nazism. It follows that Nazis are a problem. Muslims are no different. Calling something a religion does not immunize it from criticism. Whatever the fuck Jim Jones was preaching was a religion. Feel me? Not all religions are created equal.
To that point, Nazism and Islam aren’t like Judaism or Christianity. Many, if not most, Jews are atheists and secularists. Jews aren’t interested in making the world Jewish. They couldn’t anyway, since Jews are Jews by virtue of ancestry. One can convert to Judaism, but that doesn’t make him a Jew. Jews are interested in protecting their people from those who hate them and want to make them go away.
For most Christians, their relationship with their god is personal. Many Christians want people to accept Christ into their lives, and they aren’t shy about their beliefs (nor should they be), but civilizations based on Christian ethics are free and open societies. By contrast, Muslims want everybody to be Muslim, and when they dominate a society, Jews and Christians become second-class citizens—or worse. In the final stage of Islamization, either one converts to Islam, or one loses one’s life.
The point of the Qur’an and the Hadiths is that Jews and Christians corrupted monotheism. Muhammad put the Qur’an the way he did because he wanted those he sought to lead to hate Jews and Christians. Muhammad viewed Jews and Christians as obstacles to his power.
According to Islam, in the end times, when Jesus returns, he breaks the cross and personally affirms that Muhammad’s revelation is the one true revelation.
The Qur’an teaches that Muhammad’s god turned disbelievers into apes and pigs. If a Muslim finds human apes and pigs, then he knows he has found disbelievers. Surah At-Tawbah (9:5), known as the “Verse of the Sword,” instructs Muslims: “So when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them of every place of ambush.” “Allah does not like transgressors,” Surah Al-Baqarah (2:190–191) instructs: “kill them wherever you find them and turn them out from where they have turned you out…”
But Islam teaches that there is no compulsion in religion, right? Don’t be deceived. Islamic jurisprudence embraces a principle known as Naskh or Abrogation. The Verse of the Sword, one of the last revelations, abrogates more peaceful verses regarding non-Muslims. This is because, whenever Muhammad had to change tactics, he received a new revelation that canceled an earlier one. He wasn’t contradicting himself. Allah changed his mind. Allah is perfect. So is Muhammad. Perfect beings and prophets cannot contradict themselves.
A Hadith teaches that the Muslim god turned Christians who disbelieved a miracle performed by Jesus—this isn’t in the Gospels—into pigs. The Hadith claims that Jesus delivered a table full of food to a group, and that some among them did not accept the miracle, so they became pigs. Omitting this from the Gospels means Christians are deceivers. The New Testament is a lie. The Hadith says that when Jesus returns, he kills all the pigs. Get the picture?
Hitler also believed that Jews and Christians were deceivers who had perverted monotheism. The Nazi project was to exterminate the Jews and remake all Christians in the image of Nazism. I have more to say about this Tuesday.
It will suffice to say, understand that when you elect a Muslim to office, you are essentially electing a Nazi to office. There is little light between these ideologies. Upon careful examination, one finds that Islam and Nazism are species of ideology falling under the genus authoritarian-totalitarian. Moreover, both are intrinsically antisemitic.
We defeated Nazism, yet tolerate Islam. The West must reconcile this contradiction. Every patriot should ask himself: Is Nazism tolerable? If the answer is no, then Islam is intolerable.
As for those who eschew patriotism, mockery and ridicule are appropriate. Those who stand against free and open societies are, by definition, authoritarian, and cannot be allowed to obtain power. We cannot have free and open societies if we tolerate those who seek to destroy the foundations of Western civilization.
As I have explained in previous essays, there’s no paradox in what I just wrote, so save your wordplay. Our natural rights to liberty and life depend on each other. Without these, happiness cannot follow.
Islam is a joyless ideology. It bans music. It murders artists and demolishes their work. It denies women erotic pleasure. It’s the worst idea system in the world. We cannot peacefully coexist with those who seek to erase us.
It will be a struggle. As Mark Durie tells us in The Qur’an and Its Biblical Reflexes: Investigations into the Genesis of a Religion, Muhammad’s violent turn reflects a crisis of faith among his followers. The believers were mocked when their prophet’s prophecies did not come to pass. Muhammad commanded his followers to destroy those who mocked him.
Durie also shows that there are not three Abrahamic faiths. Islam is a radical break with Judeo-Christianity. Indeed, Islam negates Judeo-Christianity.
An exit poll of Jewish early voters in Michigan found that 57 percent backed El-Sayed. An exit poll of 100,000 voters conducted on behalf of major news networks by SSRS found that 68 percent of Jewish voters backed Democratic candidates on November 3. Among Christians polled, CNN found that 38 percent of Protestants and 42 percent of Catholics voted for El-Sayed. Too many Americans don’t know what time it is.
