Islamophobia

The top ten thinkers in the world today are Muslims!

In a poll conducted by Prospect, a British magazine, of a hundred of the world’s top thinkers, the top ten were Muslims. Alhamdulillah! This is especially surprising considering the poll was jointly hosted by Foreign Policy, a US publication. Of course, the value of such a poll is dubious when proven intellectual frauds like Ayaan Hirsi Ali make the top 20 ahead of he likes of Vaclav Havel, Niall Ferguson and even the spineless apostate Salman Rushdie.

Still, it’s great to see Muslims on top, ousting rabid right-wing wannabes like Christopher Hitchens - who once was left-wing, but having never outlived or outclassed Gore Vidal, resorted to the journalism of convenience and dipped his nib in the vitriolic ink of hypocrisy and hatred that represents the majority of the West’s Islamophobic media machinery today.

So here we have it, the top ten, led by a guy I’ve never heard of…

1. Fethullah Gulen
2. Muhammad Yunus
3. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
4. Orhan Pamuk
5. Aitzaz Ahsan
6. Amr Khaled
7. Abdolkarim Soroush
8. Tariq Ramadan
9. Mahmood Mamdani
10. Shirin Ebadi

Nice especially to see two of my favourite Islamic writers in that list. (I won’t tell you who they are). Two of that list are also Nobel laureates. Interesting things happening in Turkey these days and I don’t just mean their football team reaching the semi-finals of Euro 2008, though I must confess to having cheered loudly when they equalised against the prematurely euphoric Croatia.

Oh by the way, no Qadianis in the top 100. Funny that. I tried to think of a solitary Qadiani thinker. I failed. You see, they don’t think. Because if they did, they wouldn’t be Qadiani anymore now, would they?

Of all sources, Engadget reports that the undersea cable cutting going on in the Med is getting suspicious.

For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable in the Mediterranean Sea has apparently been cut, and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious. Flag Telecom, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, has had two cables damaged in the span of a week — a quandary it has never dealt with until now. As it stands, traffic from the Middle East and surrounding areas is being routed through various other cables in an attempt to remain online, but any more snips and we could be dealing with ping times eerily similar to those seen in 1993 (or much, much larger issues).

I’m also a little suspicious about the constant cable cutting shenanigans resulting in limited or no Internet access in the Middle East, but leaving a certain, apartheid, racist, lying, bullying, oppressing, tyrannical shit of a country untouched.

These cables are not easy to cut. They have to be deliberately damaged. It has to be sabotage. Cable cut once, could be an accident. Unlikely, but possible. Twice, thrice and erm, frice….that’s deliberate. The question is, what would be so big as to require no comms getting out of Iran, for example?

Who would want to stop any information flowing out of the Middle East in the event of some kind of attack? Couldn’t be Israel and the USA, could it?

Every country that has dumped, or talked of dumping the rapidly dying and soon-to-be-bankrupt dollar has been in the cross-hairs of the Bush administration and the Islamophobes around the world. Now that the UAE wants out, or rather, is on the road to exit through a re-valuation, maybe it’s being given a few warning slaps?

The world could suddenly be plunged into a new era of darkness through yet another false-flag operation. I shudder to think of the kind of atrocities that might go unreported without people having the power of the Internet. And just think, most of the public will buy the same old lies that they did in the aftermath of 9/11. They got away with killing over a million in Iraq and ethnically cleansing the rest, without the Internet, I’m sure they’d happily nuke Iran - and worse!

At first, I wondered if these cables being cut wouldn’t also take out Israel, but guess what? Apparently not!

My good friend and writer of the wonderful Minority Report blog went to America oh, a few decades back and came back with the memory of a car bumper sticker that read “Subvert the Dominant Paradigm”. Genius. It took me until Islamophobia in the West assumed the rhetorical position of Nazism before I finally began to understand its full meaning.

I don’t usually like to chuck away dominant paradigms. One of them is the paradigm of an unshifting ground beneath your moving body. It’s kind of helpful to go about one’s daily life knowing that when you plant your next footfall, you will not end up spiralling through space or falling to the earth’s core.

A more obvious example would be the idea that what goes up, must come down. Assuming of course that whatever it is doesn’t exceed the escape velocity of the earth’s gravitational field of about 25,000 mph (you can tell I remembered that and didn’t have to google it - I’m using imperial measurements). And what goes down, usually goes down pretty quickly and depending on the height it starts from, breaks. It’s what stops most people stepping off the top of buildings to avoid having to take the stairs. Combine that with the first paradigm and you have the ability to walk to your nearest bus stop without questioning the world around you with every step.

A less sensible paradigm is that all Muslims are terrorists. Let’s face it. I’ve just strengthened that bond, just by juxtaposing those two words, haven’t I? I mean, don’t most people now think “terrorist” first, when they hear Muslim, even if they don’t actually feel that way? It’s a lousy paradigm and one which after just a little pondering, proves itself to be a construct of media hype and government agendas.

A more controversial paradigm, but one which is most strongly associated with extremists is evolution. Extremists like Dawkins for example. I think evolution is broken. I’ve tried to understand it, but it makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

Evolution doesn’t explain how life started.

Evolution doesn’t explain how incredibly complex systems came to be after a series of incremental, random mutations in genetic code. I remember reading an explanation by Dawkins of how an eye could evolve in stages. It all made sense until you worked out the odds.

It’s like saying that enough earthquakes would eventually create magnificent architecture or more accurately, that an earthquake would introduce a positive genetic enhancement to the Sydney Opera House.

It’s like saying that flying enough aeroplanes into enough buildings would eventually cause buildings to strengthen against such attacks by themselves.

It doesn’t explain how fish came to the land. Assuming that we have finally rejected Lamarckian dogma for the twaddle that it was, then organisms cannot know what will be a useful mutation and should not be able to pre-adapt so that their organs are already fully formed before they leave their old, watery environment to make their home on dry land.

Even natural selection doesn’t always mean “survival of the fittest”, otherwise you wouldn’t get animals protecting the weak amongst their own.

How did they know they were meant to be almost 50% as strong again to withstand gravity? How did their gills become lungs? How did their fins, disconnected from their spines in the case of the closest possible match, become connected to their spines and form new bones to become feet? How did the open excretion systems turn into complete kidneys, miracles unto themselves? How did their skin adapt to cope with ultraviolet rays? And why didn’t the alleged transitional forms die out as interim models, with partly formed organs as not optimal for sea or land? And how did the mutations, hundreds and thousands of them, all happen in a single lifetime?

Bollocks.

Someone explain why the fossil record shows not a single transitional form, despite us now having gazillions of fossils to study from all over the world.

Someone explain why evolutionists and paleontologists come up with so many fakes in order to posit a missing link and always fail? Why so much fraud in the name of science?

Someone explain why the fossil record shows species appearing as if fully formed, without any predecessor forms?

Someone explain the Cambrian Explosion!

Someone explain why the “tree of evolution” is almost upside down, with no intermediate forms alive today and with the current forms unchanged in some cases for millions upon millions of years.

Someone explain why despite repeated experimentation on drosophila, not a single useful mutation has ever been observed?

Someone explain why every time a species has any kind of mutation, it is always to its detriment?

Someone explain why so many evolutionists are fundamentally dogmatic and extreme by nature.

Look, I’m no scientist, I posit no alternative and my current scepticism is in no way related to my religion. I’m also definitely not in the same boat as guys like this. Evolution is scientific, clearly, lots of clever people buy into it, but they haven’t communicated it very well.

I would just like a scientist to show me where I’m going wrong. Nicely. Without doing a Dawkins on me and my religion. When I see Islamophobic frauds like Aayan Hirsi Ali selling their books on Dawkins’ home page, I kind of wonder about the agenda, you know? Lying cow!

The same fuckers that call Islam a religion of terror are eager to back the random idea of evolution with missionary zeal. That makes me suspicious.

Subvert the dominant paradigm!

Martin Amis - you’ll never be as good a writer as your dad was.

I gasped at the audacity of the Ahmadiyya’s pitiful “cry-wolf” organ repeating a story from the Bangladeshi Daily Star about an Ahmadi family in Bangladesh being “harrassed”.

Looking at the actual picture, the “persecution” that this family received was ostracism and boycott from the mainstream Muslim community.? Not exactly the end of the world then. No beatings, no house burnings, no murders. Just ostracism and a boycott.

Not nice, but let’s consider this. I watched a programme this evening where the brothers of a teenage mum had their faces beaten to a pulp by thugs, just for being their brothers. Now that’s ostracism to the max. Only, I didn’t see them make a fuss, or start putting up web sites about it.

Still, ostracism and boycott, whilst not exactly life threatening, can be “painful”.

Which brings me to the point. The Ahmadis routinely boycott Ahmadi families for:

• Allowing their daughters to marry a Muslim
• Listening to music at a wedding
• Asking routine questions about their faith
• Not paying the 6.25% tax

The families in question have to write begging letters for weeks, sometimes months and even years to the current Mirza Cult Leader of the day, seeking pardon. In the meantime, the community shuns the family and sometimes individuals and they are left in limbo, neither accepted by the Ahmadis, nor by the Muslims (unless they renounce the cult, which very few brave people do).

This practice started in earnest with the arrival of the Cult’s True Master, Mirza Mahmud, son of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. This man was responsible for setting up the cult apparatus in the image of the Papacy in Rome. A horrific example can be found in the murder of Fakhrudin Multani. This poor man was a companion of Mirza, a true believer. He left his home and settled in Qadian, to be with his master. He was then treated like a modern day paedophile in a northern town and ultimately murdered.

His murderer was hanged by the government, but buried with full honours by the Ahmadiyya. This is an old story. The newer ones, while often not as violent, are just as painful and the reasons often more petty. This happens while rapists connected to the Mirza family are given enormous financial support and while the cult keeps grabbing land for no reason other than to satisfy the greed of the leadership.

Nobody condones murder or persecution. I’m not backing any of that kind of nonsense here. I used to be one of them - how could I possibly condone violence against them? I am just of the firm opinion however, that the persecution of Ahmadis is the most overplayed card in the history of all fitnas to affect the Muslim Ummah. If it’s persecution you want to see, look at Palestine. Look at Chechnya. Look at Bosnia. Look at Iraq. Look at Afghanistan. Then shut the fuck up already.

It would behove the Ahmadiyya to stop bleating on about “persecution” when its own house is in disarray. When the Ahmadiyya stops boycotting and ostracising its own for allowing their daughters to marry Muslims, then they should feel free to put out pathetic press releases about a family practising a cult that is anathema to Muslims getting cold-shouldered.