The Heart of Islam

Ed Hussain:

Sultan spoke fondly of his time in London, particularly his placement at Coutts as a trainee banker. We then moved on to the subject uppermost in my mind, the terrorist attacks on London. My host did not really seem to care. He expressed no real sympathy or shock, despite speaking so warmly of his time in London.

Of course not.

Keen to take him up on his comment, I asked him: “Based on your education in Saudi Arabian schools, do you think there is a connection between the form of Islam children are taught here [in Saudi Arabia] and the action of 15 Saudi men on September 11?”

Without thinking, his immediate response was, ‘No. No, because Saudis were not behind 9/11. The plane hijackers were not Saudi men. One thousand two hundred and forty-six Jews were absent from work on that day and there is the proof that they, the Jews, were behind the killings. Not Saudis.”

It gets worse:

Two weeks after the terrorist attacks in London another Saudi student raised his hand and asked: “Teacher, how can I go to London?”

“Much depends on your reason for going to Britain. Do you want to study or just be a tourist?”

“Teacher, I want to go London next month. I want bomb, big bomb in London, again. I want make jihad!”

“What?” I exclaimed. Another student raised both hands and shouted: “Me too! Me too!”

Other students applauded those who had just articulated what many of them were thinking. I was incandescent. In protest I walked out of the classroom to a chorus of jeering and catcalls.

An entire generation nourished on venom.

Comments

[Josh Scholar]

And this was after telling him that 9/11 and other terrorist attacks couldn't be Saudis or even Muslims, it was obviously Jews.

They say Muslims would never do such things, then say they want to do them!!!

[Isaac Schrödinger]

Nobody can comprehend Islamic logic.

[Saul]

"Nobody can comprehend Islamic logic."

I bet most psychiatrists can. Denial, paranoia, delusions, all designed to protect an indefensible and contradictory set of beliefs.

Muslims know that they can not question their beliefs since that leads directly to apostasy and death plus hellfire. But their religion says that it is from a merciful God while describing the Prophet's raids and genocidal attacks on Jews and other infidels. This is only defensible if Jews and infidels are vile and evil.

Many of the claims of Islam are in such direct contradiction with history, archeology logic and other forms of information that the only way the Koran and Hadith can be true is if vast conspiracies against Islam are common. All of the tendencies of Islam: paranoia, hatred, antisemitism, victim identity etc seem to be psychological coping strategies to avoid what they can't bear to come to terms with. They have been enslaved by mindless ritual and a doctrine that is based solely on fear of Allah, their community and their family.

All religions have aspects of mental illness associated with them (careful examinations of the writings and descriptions of other prophets and holy figures can be revealing) but Islam has some particularly unfortunate traits which make it the embodiment of a control, insecurity, abusiveness and narcissism. The strange thing is that many Muslims do not seem to have these traits themselves and seem to be very decent people and yet still profess these beliefs and support speakers who embody these traits.

Maybe that is a harsh assessment but it is the one that I have been forming from all the information I have been able to obtain thus far. If I am Islamophobic it is from my personal assessment of the facts in evidence to me.

Hopefully no one will kill me for my "defamation" of Islam.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

Saul: Dang! No 72 raisins for you!

[Saul]

Oh-Woh, I heard it on the grape vine.

[Saul]

72 raisins - first in line.

All hell promises is painful doom and drinking boiling water and eating thorns, eh? I think I need to think about this.