A friend of mine read all the anti-Muslim-Crusader-Christofascist hate crap years ago and we fell out for a while about it. My friend asked me what many people are asking even more vocally today. “Will the real Islam please stand up”. My friend was years ahead of her time.
It’s very easy to get online and fill your head with lies. They’re everywhere. And from a certain point of view, they are credible pretenders to truth. The real issue is one of context, framework and reference. Ask the right questions, then you have a chance of getting somewhere.
Where is the real Islam? Everywhere. In every city, in every country, in every sphere of life. We’re a billion plus and growing fast every day. Why doesn’t The Real Islam speak up? It does damn it, every single day. But no fucker really wants to hear what we have to say. It doesn’t make for good news for a start. Papers don’t sell on harmony, they sell on fear, hatred and crass pop-clecbrity-worship-culture.
What’s more, people won’t like what we have to say. Truth isn’t always palatable, is it? Medicine doesn’t taste great, does it? I’m tired of being spoken for when I’m already talking. I can’t build bridges on my own, I need people to meet me on the other side. Fortunately, there are a few of them about and they write better blogs than I’ll ever manage - you’ll find links to my friends on the right.
And will someone please turn down the volume on this “moderate Muslim” garbage. It’s fucking insulting. I’m not a moderate Muslim, I’m a Muslim, end of. The prefix “moderate” is used to symobilse those Muslims who won’t say boo to a Bush or call Blair a liar. “Moderate Muslim” in media-speak means those who will not defy the status quo. They will shut the fuck up while their brothers’ and sisters’ countries are raped, looted and pillaged, while the most evil cunts on the planet dig up shit about us being violent and a cult of death.
- I am a Muslim.
- I am a jihadi. I conduct jihad every day of my life. It’s what makes me a Muslim, I am proud to be a jihadi. Confused? Then ask me what it means and I will tell you.
- I am a shahid. No, not shaheed, there is a difference, but you only want “moderate Muslims, so you won’t engage in dialogue with me, but if you do, I will tell you the difference.
- I despise what my country, Britain, is doing. But I love my country. I condemn the behaviour, not the nation. Does The Sun care about the difference?
- I consider those being killed by Western troops in Iraq and Afghanistan martyrs. Yet I feel shame that the greatest fighting force in the world (The British Army) has been betrayed by its leadership. The British Soldier is in an impossible position and I feel sorry for him. He deserves to be fighting for the right cause. He is not. And his Generals know it and speak up about it too, but still, nothing changes, because Tony Blair is a cunted up cunt, forever condemned to an eternity of anal-probing by Bushcock
- I am an extremist. I am extremely cross that my religion has been hijacked by people who know nothing about religion except how to use it to further their personal gain and glory.
- I am a Paki, I am a nigger, I am a yid, I am a raghead, I am every oppressed person in the world and I stand with them, not with corporate excess and greed that creates oppression and want and hunger and genocide.
- I am British. I am proud to be British. But I also think that after what the rape-victims of empire endured, they have every right to be here. All two billion of them. And if we can’t cope, then that’s our fucking problem, not theirs, because we fucked them over to begin with. I hate what London is becoming, but it’s not immigration that has done it, though it has revealed our weakness - we have no shared values. If we had shared values, immigrants would know what to fit in with, wouldn’t they, and then they would become “us” and we wouldn’t know the difference.
- I hate the ideology of the West. I hate the values of the West. But I love the people of the West. Well, just under half of them anyway.
- I am a Muslim and I am not a moderate, though I am moderate…
Is Islam incompatible with being British? Damn straight! As a nation (but not as people), we now stand for greed, hypocrisy, turning a blind eye to hunger, oppression and genocide, we stand for idol worship, for drugs, for alcohol, for kicking the poor, for rewarding the criminals. You’re damn right that Islam opposes all that - but - would I be happy living in a Christian British state that lived under the best of Christian values? Damn straight! I went to a CofE primary and it was wonderful. CofE has gone backwards since though, as it tolerates the worst excesses of a society bent on hedonism and self-destruction.
Would I prefer an Islamic state to what we have? Damn straight. But an Islamic state is not the Taliban or Saddam Hussein. A true Islamic state allows freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from sex oppression, freedom from child labour, free speech, but not freedom to abuse and insult.
A Muslim is a Muslim. I’m not going to bomb my fellow citizens, that is a crime in Islam, but I am going to shout on this poxy blog about injustice and hypocrisy and greed until I’m shot by the statzpolizei, down in the tube station at midnight.
We have to face up to what we have done.
We have raped the world for centuries and we shouldn’t act surprised when the world cries “enough”.
{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }
the olive ream 02.15.06 at 6:16 am
This, by far, stands out the best, most articulate and impressive rant I have ever read on any blog thus far…. EVER!
Love your work, mate!
Sha'n 02.16.06 at 6:34 pm
I second that. Wish I could rant like you. I just cry with frustration. Glad I popped by.
Stevie 02.17.06 at 12:03 am
I agree. We all live on a ball and when it bursts we’re all gone.
Anonymous 02.26.06 at 8:47 pm
Can i just say it really annoys me when “muslims” rant and rave about britain as i feel that they are the cause for all of the tension in britain as you roit all the time and cheat and scam and lie. its just my oppinion and i know there must must must be a couple of good ones out there but we do not see any proof of it. we have helped the irish,indian,pakistani and anyone else that wants to get in. if it wasnt for britain you would not be alive.
Padishah 11.19.06 at 1:38 pm
Its funny how all the faggots that run around accussing a million plus people of collectively causing tension don’t have the balls to write anything identifiable in the ‘Name’ section, apart from anonymous. Mate, if you’re going to be a BNP loving racist faggot cock sucker, then be man enough to give us a name. Or are you ashamed of constantly swallowing the putrid MSM media cum?
shahid 11.19.06 at 2:21 pm
Dear Padishah, that’s a comment and a half!
Taj 01.15.07 at 8:04 pm
Well well well, it seems someone has some strong opinions concerning the CofE and generally the british nation, those horrible lot of sinners. Its funny, if someone shared some of their thoughts about islamic societies and political organizations, the faithful would flee to the citadel of tolerance, and from that high and noble position, look down on all the labeled ‘bigoted islamophobes.’
You speak of the ills of british society, and you have every right to, infact given free license and urged to. However, if one were to speak of the ills of islamic political organization, one would instantly see the change of tune, the speech about tolerance, respecting others relgions, cultures and all that cowardly labeling of bigots, islamophobes that comes with it. All this leads to the stifling of debate, with one group pushing their views on the other which can’t hope to defend itself.
You speak of the glories of a true islamic state.
You speak of freedom of expression, but do you speak about the fact blasphemous talk would not be tolerated in any god fearing islamic country?
You speak of freedom of religion, but can you deny the Pact of Umar which shaped the interaction between muslim states and their non-muslim citizens, the killing of apostates, the Ridda wars?
You speak of freedom of want and I ask, what do you mean? Please expound.
You speak freedom from sex oppression, but can you tell me what are right hand possessions without talking about sex slaves and why a muslim man is given permission to beat his wife without quoting the koran?
You speak of freedom from child labour, and I ask you whether you knew that in 1962 slavery was offically banned in Saudi Arabia, and besides the atlantic slave trade, the, dare I say it without being accused of bigotry, Islamic slave trade is an equal peer?
You speak of free speech, but apparently not the freedom to abuse and insult, to which my mind begs you to answer who will define what constitutes abuse and insult, highly subjective topics I might say without expounding. Free speech is not free speech if it is censored. Do you understand how important freespeech is, how critical it is to not let anything go unquestioned, even if it be religous dogma?
You say we have raped the world for centuries, but do you know of islamic history? The invasion of Persia, Eastern Rome, India, Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Phonecia and the Balkans. The destruction of entire civilizations, equal to the onslaught of Spanish conquistadors in the Americas. Have you read Iqbal’s Shikwa? His tone is as silly and patronizing as Kipling’s The White Man’s Burden. The west has done a better job of facing up to its past when compared to the Islamic civilzations who have assumed the ostrich position in relation to their history.
You might speak of Islamic imperialism not being equal to the Western equivalent, and I will ask, do you, as someone who is ethnically pakistani, know what an ashraf, ajlaf and azral are?
Ofcourse, everything I wrote is probably higly offensive and laced with polemics concerning a certain religion that is not to be criticized ever to someone who considers a religion as a system of political organization.
That ofcourse is itself another failing, any sedition will be viewed as blasphemy, apostacy, heretical and all that colourful language ascribed to individuals who don’t want to worship an omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipotent diety that supposedly told us how to live our lives for all time 1400 years ago.
You might take this post as a tu quoque fallacy, however, I am just responding to the preaching.
Freedom of speech? I wouldn’t be surprised if this post is deleted.
shahid 01.15.07 at 8:17 pm
Wow Taj - that’s a comment and a half. Where’s your blog? I’d love to read it.
Taj 01.15.07 at 8:52 pm
Thanks for the compliment.
Sorry, I don’t have a blog. Maybe I should think about creating one,but then I wouldn’t know what to write about. I’m glad you allowed the post to be seen and I apologize for thinking you would delete it.
By the by, what did you mean by freedom of want? I know it was almost a year ago, but maybe you remember.
I would like to add that I found reading this blog enjoyable(put away things I meant to do to read this blog), even the entries that I disagreed with.
shahid 01.15.07 at 9:07 pm
I think your writing is wonderful. I would love to read this post in your own blog.
You have presented a rational rebuttal of Islam free of over-the-top generalisation and imbued with real learning and understanding. Furthermore, you write with a clear head (unlike me) and that makes you worth engaging with. I’m all for a rational discourse, and I’m happy to admit to my failings, and the failings of my fellow Muslims, if that helps build bridges.
What would you write about? Well the comment you’ve left above would make great source material for your first post.
Freedom from want? Probably me being over the top. It’s an ideal, not sure if it’s entirely attainable, but the Islamic system of poor dues through Zaqah and Sadaqah would be a start. The former being compulsory, the latter not.
Yes, I know we have a welfare system here, and it iis for the most part, very compatible with Islam.
Unfortunately, we have created far too many loopholes for the rich and we have also made it too easy for the not-as-badly-off-as-they-make-out to cheat the rest - though the latter problem is certainly overplayed.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I have enjoyed your comments, they make an enormous change from the far too frequent threatening and abusive ones I have to frequently delete, so thank you!