Totalitarianism - Murtadd to Human

1948 and the Nazis of the Nile*

We were sitting over a book by Anjuli Pandavar, a South African born former Muslim, who writes about the struggle of man against Muslim in every Muslim and Muslim against man in every man brought up in Islamic culture.

Editorials

Editorial

Murtadd to Human

Atheism/religion

There's free will, and then there's Muslim free will

A few days ago, I had the unedifying experience of an exchange with multiple denizens of the comments stratum of Thought Adventure Podcast that I viewed for the first time on YouTube. The attraction was a discussion to which the four hosts had invited Ridvan "Apostate Prophet" Aydemir. The topic

Propaganda

Evolution, children and murderers*

Many people have noticed the love tyrants have for a photo-op with small children; there are books that show ties between fanatical ideologies and brutal programs of child-indoctrination from the cradle, of raising children to become murderers.

Atheism/religion

Saudi Arabia: Oil, Shari'a and the pursuit of happiness

"Our constitution is the Qur'an… We are bound to implement the Qur'an in some form or another …inclusive of everybody. …But in social and personal affairs, we are only obliged to implement stipulations that are clearly stated in the Qur'an.” — Mohammed bin Salman

Totalitarianism

“If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.”

Thus the famous line by Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, Blade Runner. If we could but see what our enemies see when they look at us. Even when looking with our enemy’s eyes, we still see only what our eyes see, never what their eyes see. “Eyes wide shut,” is another fitting metaphor.

Reviews / Previews

"Four Horsemen and a Wonderful Apostate"

There is a lacuna in Islam critique that stems directly from political correctness, Western misconceptions about Muslims and good old-fashioned spinelessness: critique of Muslims as people. Islam cannot be properly understood while it is maintained that Muslims as people must never be criticised.

Totalitarianism

"I've come to collect my Bachelor's degree."

"Here, have a diploma, instead." A sudden law change about university degrees sets off something the Chinese government did not expect. Why don't Chinese people rise up? They do! Only to be met with the most brutal of punishments. With thanks to laowhy86.

Totalitarianism

"Everybody knows"*

And everybody knows that. This is what they hear, this is what they talk about. In this version there are no missing pieces, everything tallies and gives a feeling of national pride, of historic justice. It doesn’t offend, it doesn’t demand thought, it feeds cognitive dissonance with tasty morsels.

Editorials

Editorial

Murtadd to Human

Dissidents/Ex-Muslims

George Orwell’s Columbian mistake*

Nations yearning for freedom look with envy at the democratic states. However, those who managed to escape tyranny look with astonishment and horror at the paradox of our times. Democracy is putting a noose around its own neck.

Israel

Happy Birthday, Israel: A wake-up call to remain asleep

On 14 May 1948, part of the erstwhile Eretz-Israel was finally restored to the Jewish people as the State of Israel. 14 May 2021 was the august occasion of the modern nation’s 73rd birthday. The equally august Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, was five days earlier, the occasion for a rude awakening.

Atheism/religion

There's humanity, and then there's Muslim humanity

"The horror, the horror." These are the famous last word's of Kurtz, the Muhammad-like ivory trader who became a god to the savages in the African wilderness, in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. He leaves behind a pamphlet of which the final surah, so to speak, reads, "Exterminate all the brutes!"

Atheism/religion

How to break free from the clutches of an empathy so bizarrely understood?*

In mosques the promise that Muslims will kill all Jews is repeated almost daily. In the picture below, an imam from Texas says these words.

Totalitarianism

Astonishment in search of understanding*

Mass insanity marches on a broad front. Absurd media messages which people believe without the least blink of an eye. Israelis are committing genocide, Israelis cut out Palestinians’ organs and sell them on the international market, Israelis kill children and shoot defenceless and innocent people.

Dissidents/Ex-Muslims

"No chains around my feet, but I'm not free"

I would be the first to celebrate the breaking of chains, any chains, but especially chains that bind the mind. Breaking the chains of Islam from around my feet still left many chains of Islam around my mind.

Atheism/religion

The hornet’s nest of freedom of religion: Reply to Mateen Elass

The right to religion is a shaky historic compromise between two epochs in human social evolution: dependent subordination and individual autonomy. By attacking secularism, religious freedom subsumes itself into freedom of thought, of expression, and of association—no longer anything special.