• Why Islam Can't Join the Modern World

    From Byker@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 17:55:04 2017
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    For Muslims, every single ingredient of life must represent a total
    submission to Allah.

    Question: what kind of progress, technological advances, economic growth and open dialogue can be possible in a society where every facet of the entire culture is Islamicised?

    Is this why not one Arab country is yet to produce anything even close to something resembling prosperity, social functionality or liberal democracy?

    The bottom line is that Islam cannot deal with modernity. Having never experienced a "reformation" in centuries, it is intrinsically despotic and totalitarian.

    There is not one area of a Muslim's life that is left open for
    individuality, originality and creativity.

    From the moment a Muslim wakes up, he has to start going through a process
    of rigid procedures. First and foremost, he has to wash a certain way. He
    even has to clean his nose in a specific manner, and he has to do repeat
    this procedure three times. This is essential because Islam teaches that the devil spends the night in the cavity of the nose.

    A Muslim is not to touch any utensil unless he has washed his hands three times. He is also not allowed to urinate in stagnant water.

    When Muslims do "number two," they are forbidden to sit and are instructed
    to adopt a squatting position while leaning heavy on the left foot.

    I can't help but wonder: is there an instructional Islamic video for this?
    What happens if a Muslim leans on the right foot?

    Islam also instructs that, when you go "number one" or "number two," you
    have to say a certain prayer each time. This is in line with the fact that whenever a Muslim arrives, sits, or sleeps anywhere, he has to say a certain prayer as well.

    When taking a bath, Muslims are instructed to wash the lower part of the
    body and the armpits first. Then they are allowed to wash the rest of their bodies. But it always has to be the right side first and then the left.
    After this, they have to immediately empty all the water and clean the bath
    and refill it. Then they can clean off. (I can't help from observing that
    this sounds like obsessive compulsive disorder).

    Muslims are instructed that they have to use their right side for all things first. For instance, if you are putting on your sneakers, you have to put
    your right foot into the right sneaker first. The same with taking them off. The same goes with putting on a shirt and which arm goes where etc. When entering a house, you have to enter with the right foot first.

    When entering the bathroom, however, a Muslim has to enter with the left
    foot first, and when coming out, with the right foot first.

    The times of Prayer in Islam are rigidly enforced. Islam also mandates that
    a Muslim has to disengage himself from all worldly occupations and resort to his prayers, even when he is most busy.

    Before prayers, the body has to be washed in a precise and orderly way
    (right hand up to the wrist, then left hand, then right arm up to elbow,
    then left arm, etc). The Muslim has to wipe his head with wet hands, and it
    is absolutely necessary that this is done with the three fingers between the little finger and the thumb of both hands being joined together.

    When a husband and a wife make love, they have to go wash every time afterwards. (Just imagine the life of a sexually active couple).

    Every way in which Muslims interact with each other is also all cut out for them. For instance, Muslims are instructed to greet each other in certain
    ways. They have to say, "As-salamu alaikum" (peace be upon you). And in
    return one says, "Wa alaikum us-salam" (upon you be peace).

    In one sense, this is, of course, very beautiful. But the question remains: what if someone wants to say something different for a change? Or what if someone doesn't want to say anything at all?

    When replying to a greeting, it is a big-time no-no to say, "God's peace be upon you". This can only be said when saying goodbye. Also, if a couple of people bump into each other, and one guy performs the greeting, no one else
    is supposed to repeat the greeting. And when another guy replies to a
    greeting, that is enough and no one else is supposed to reply. (Question:
    what if two guys reply at the same time by mistake?).

    Muslims are also not allowed to say hi to a Jew or a to a Christian first.
    If they do, they are not supposed to take the greeting back. What's done is done. They will be held to account for this later. If a Jew or a Christian
    says "Salamun alaikum" to a Muslim, the Muslim must not respond the way he
    must to a fellow Muslim ("Wa alaikum us-salam") and only say "alaika" in return. (But what if a Muslim confuses a Jew for a fellow Muslim?)

    Muslims are also not allowed to enter other people's house unless they ask
    for permission up to three times. Permission has to be given for each time before they enter, and, of course, they have to come in with the right foot first. (Imagine what a Muslim party would be like).

    A Muslim is never allowed to sleep in -- even if he is really tired. That's because he is commanded to get up early to say his morning prayers.

    Muslims do not even have the luxury of spontaneity or free will in their
    sleep. They are even instructed to sleep in certain positions. They are not allowed to sleep on their backs or on their stomachs or on their left sides. They have to sleep on their right sides. It is mandatory, meanwhile, that
    their heads point to the north. (I don't want to get into the details of my personal sleeping habits, but let me just admit that, in terms of the way I sleep, I would definitely go to hell in this religion - or at least get publicly flogged every day).

    In any case, this phenomenon of how Islam robs the potential for free will
    in every ingredient of its believers' lives explains why, as Raphael Patai
    has demonstrated in The Arab Mind, no motivation exists for Arabs to take action for change or to evaluate critically their own circumstances. The
    result is that Arabs do not end up feeling a sense of responsibility for
    their own lives and, therefore, for their own failures. When a problem is confronted in the Arab world, a hidden enemy is always imagined.

    Consequently, the inability of Arab countries to create democracies, let
    alone functional economic societies, is read by Arabs as a personal
    humiliation that is caused by enemies - and not by the backwardness of
    Islamic culture itself.

    We begin to get an understanding, therefore, why the idea that problems can
    be solved by individuals themselves, and that citizens must actually participate in solving their own society's problems, is an idea that is incomprehensible in the Islamic Arab world.

    Arabs grow up believing that success in their societies is simply just
    supposed to materialize, even if no one is actually taking any individual initiative to bring it about. If problems develop (i.e. economic
    backwardness, dictatorship etc.), they are believed to be caused by infidels (i.e. the evil Americans).

    Thus, it becomes obvious why Islam cannot join the modern world. In crushing the potential for any free will in human beings, it must annihilate the very essence of human liberty. In so doing, Islam spawns a backward and self-destructive culture that forces an excruciating humiliation on its
    people. These people, in turn, end up confusing their impotence and misery
    with their hatred of the infidels who have succeeded in every aspect in
    which Islamic civilization has pathetically failed.

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