Fire is essential to life after air, water, and food. Fire, broadly defined, is energy. And energy runs the world. It fuels the body, operates the mind, heats homes, and runs endless machines and instruments.
When energy is put to good use, it is a boon to humanity. And when it is misused or abused, it is the bane of society. Therefore, credit or blame rests with the user of energy.
Religion is a particular case of energy in the same way that steam is a derivation of fire. Steam engines move mass in physical space. Religion, and emotional energy, propels people’s minds into the metaphysical realm.
Civilized societies have rules and regulations, albeit flawed and imperfect, regulating energy use. The fire of religion must also be contained in such a manner to do whatever good it can and prevent it from becoming a consuming wildfire.
Some have no use for religion. These people have perhaps seen so much burning and scorching by religion that they have abandoned it or have even taken active positions fighting it.
Some don’t seem to be able to make do without a religion, preferably a “divine” faith. These people value the warmth the sacred fire gives them, the assurance that the cold earth is not their end, and the promise of an eternal life of bliss after death. It is only fair that the “fire” that keeps the religionist warm is not set ablaze at the home of the non-religious.
Some questions for religionists:
* A belief qualifies as a “divine” religion because someone claims it is.
* A belief becomes religion because millions believe in it?
* Should religion and state interlace? Which religion? What is the religion of the majority in any given country?
* Should being a religionist confer the person preferential status over the non-religious?
* Should religionists have complete freedom to practice their beliefs, even when they infringe on the rights of others?
* Should religionists have the right to vilify as heathen the people of other persuasions and those of no religious belief?
* Should religionists have the right to force their beliefs on others?
* Should religionists actively engage in the subjugation or elimination of the non-religious?
In civilized societies, it is granted that what is suitable for one person must also be good for the next. This is egalitarianism. Egalitarianism levels the playing field, where every human being must abide by the same rules of fair play. No one has a claim to special privileges for himself and his group.
Concerning religion, it matters not that someone claims that he is the emissary of the Creator; that he is bringing binding teachings from the Lord. There is no objective way of ascertaining the truth or falsehood of the claim. The claimant may be a charlatan, mentally disturbed, or indeed an emissary of the divine. What matters is that the claimant and his claim serve the cause of the good for all of humanity and shun entirely, causing contention and strife among people.
When a religious founder begins claiming special privileges for himself and his followers, he launches a discriminating totalitarianism. This is indeed the case with Islam. Even a cursory glance at Islam’s past and its present establish its discriminating totalitarianism nature unequivocally.
Islam is out of control fire, and the jihadists are its arsonists. The generality of Muslims does their part by spreading throughout the world and setting up the conditions that would welcome the arsonists, feed and shelter them, and support them in igniting the Islamic fire.
This is precisely what is happening all over Europe, where the naïve natives have deluded themselves into the fraud of multiculturalism. A generous social entitlement system in Europe, well-paying job opportunities, and higher living standards magnify the horde of Muslims fleeing Islamic failed states. Ironically, these Muslim expatriates quickly forget why they had to leave their miserable plights in their homelands and the leading cause of their misery. The culprit is the pathological nihilistic belief of never-mind-this-world and doing Allah’s bidding to gain admission to his unimaginably magnificent pleasure paradise of the afterlife.
Islam believes in the rule of Islam, Caliphate to the Sunnis, and Imamate to the Shias. Hence, to Muslims, all other forms of government represent the handiwork of Satan and the infidels. Therefore, one and all non-Islamic government systems must be purified by the Islamic fire.
But marrying religion with the government is stoking the fire with explosives. In free democracies, governments are accountable to the people and serve at the people’s pleasure. In Islamic theocracy, governments are responsible only to Allah, and the people must do it at the government’s pleasure. And one can see the result of Islamic total or partial rule in eighteen or so countries that rank among the highest nations of the world on every index of misery.
The Islamic fire fueled by immense oil income is raging in some areas of the world, smoldering in others, and ready to ignite in other parts of the world. It is imperative for the free people of the world to abandon all illusions about Islam and put out its fire once and for all. Multiculturalism, live and let live, is a delusion of kind-hearted naïve people. Islam, as fractured as it is, is a non-compromising mono-culture: a cruel culture of primitive people handed down to Muhammad some 1400 years ago.
Secularists and most non-Muslim religious people respect the legitimate rights of the religionists, whereas Muslims recognize little or no rights for others. You can readily establish the validity of this assertion by looking at some eighteen or so Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and so on.
Warning to free men and women: Remain a spectator at your peril. You must take a stand, do your part in falsifying the fraud of Islam, and do all you can to prevent the Islamic fire from devouring our civilized democratic secular system.
