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Turn them against their infidel friends: jihad's generational wedge, Part 2

Turn them against their infidel friends: jihad's generational wedge, Part 2

During every prayer, the child will henceforth remind himself or herself that they need nothing less than God's protection against Jews and Christians, who would otherwise lead them away from Islam.

Answering my critics, Part 1

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Answering my critics, Part 1

I resolved to do as much damage to Islam as I possibly can, before a Muslim’s knife reaches my neck. This is much, much bigger than whatever personal experiences my critics imagine I must have had in Islam. They simply have no idea.

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 3

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 3

The simple believer must cling to the meagre faith that has been ordained for his inadequate station, grateful for the little he has been favoured with. At the end of the day, the closest thing to a guarantee that a lay Muslim has of reaching Paradise, is to kill and be killed in the cause of Allah.

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 1

Apostasy Featured

Had Orwell but known Islam. Part 1

The antithesis of Allah is, therefor, not the Devil, but the kufaar. Muslims hate the kufaar more than they hate Satan, a minor character in Islam. This says something about the relationship between Islam as religion and Islam as totalitarian system.

Yom Kippur and my escape from Islam

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Yom Kippur and my escape from Islam

I apostatised because of Muslims as people. Everything I know today about the horrific set of ideas we call Islam and, indeed, how Islam turns Muslims into the people I ran away from, I have learnt since leaving Islam. Through leaving Islam, I began to see Islam.

Anatomy of a madness, Part 3

Anatomy of a madness, Part 3

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

"a boot stamping on a human face, forever." — George Orwell.

A Special Message to Muslims the World Over

A Special Message to Muslims the World Over

Lost in the mists of time is that profound moment when a frightened, vulnerable human reached out to grab a burning branch and wielded it against a drooling predator. "Not today," one can imagine the human grunting, "Today you're finding your meal somewhere else."

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 4

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 4

An easy way to assess how Orwell “speak[s] to us in our own time with great urgency and topicality,” is by looking at the way we regard Islam, and to discern whether the decay of thought and the negation of being that Orwell sees in the civilisational breakdown we call fascism, is present in us.