Peloni: Pandavar provides an important explanation of how the simplest of people are actually transformed into carrying out the savagery such as was conducted on October 7, or that perpetrated a century earlier during the Hebron Massacre, where friends and neighbors seamlessly went from being innocuous acquaintances to being, well, members of a butchering horde. Indeed, as we hear daily about the need of denazification of the Jihadi mind which has been baked into and marbleized within the Pal consciousness, we have to appreciate the whole of society approach which has weaponized the individual Pal into a collective conglomerate whose only purpose and whose greatest achievement is to conduct Jihad against the infidels who believe that they can be reformed. Murdering and subjugating the infidel is not just an objective, but it is their highest passion, which explains the ease by which neighbors and friends of the victims of Jihad, such as those of the Hebron Massacre as well as those of October 7, were so easily transformed from being benign neighbors and friends of these innocent victims to being their executioners.
The Muslim mind has difficulty with hypotheses, role-play and fiction. None of these are the truth, therefore they are lies. An imagination accustomed to the subtleties of fiction has no problem reading facts interspersed with flights of fancy. It does not fear letting go. This Islam fears the most.
Give me the child and I’ll give you the martyr
The Messenger of Allah said, “He who does not acquire knowledge with the sole intention of seeking the Pleasure of Allah but for worldly gain, will not smell the fragrance of Jannah on the Day of Resurrection” (Abu Dawud).
Hayat Tahrir al-Shams is not about to let that happen. The only unequivocally halal (permitted) science, unsurprisingly, is science pursued “for the pleasure of Allah”, and of course, nothing pleases Allah more than jihad, which is why Muslims have no problem accepting nuclear physicists, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers and other similarly jihad-relevant bearers of knowledge.
Mosul Eye recalled the tense early days of ISIS rule on campus—and the debate over Shakespeare. ISIS wanted to ban the Bard. “One professor argued, that’s how we teach English,” Mosul Eye told me. “ISIS asked us, ‘But what could Shakespeare teach Muslims? He can’t teach them how to fight [in the cause of Allah].’”
While there are those Muslims who do their jobs with integrity, rather than use it as an opportunity to harm the kufaar—perfectly obvious, but apparently needing to be spelt out these days—a Muslim’s choice of job is no excuse to avoid “that which you do not like”, i.e., harming the kufaar, and many do respond to the call, including doctors. The same single-minded motivation behind a Muslim science intern stealing discarded centrifuges from a Western nuclear installation’s dumpsters and smuggling them to his home country for their secret nuclear programme, lies behind a group of single-minded Muslims: learning to fly passenger jets specifically simulating only the route of their “martyrdom mission”; studying public health only to learn how to poison water supplies; studying computer science only to hack into networks for jihad; and assiduously extracting and collecting minute quantities of poison from otherwise harmless sources. It is all focused on the same singular objective of, “slay and be slain in the cause of Allah.” Hayat Tahrir al-Shams is not about to let the next generation of good martyrs go to waste.
Measures against the imagination
- “The story is fictional (replacement)”
- “Khawla bint Al-Azwar is a fictional character”
- “Delete Zenobia”
Two types of learning that many of my students in China hated were role-play and hypothesising. They disparaged these as “daydreaming” and so a waste of time, clearly drummed into them from their earliest years. In Morocco, my students did not complain about role-playing, “but please, professor, not animals.” However, they were upset enough to descend en mass on the Director’s office to complain that: “She wants us to read books.” This was a serious enough charge that the Director summoned me for a no-uncertain-terms dressing down. I was no longer to require my students to read books. All these students eventually graduated and are now, no doubt, productive members of their respective societies.
On 11 December 2024, The Kandari Chronicles attempted to answer the question: “Why Don’t Arabs Read?” in an episode titled THE ARAB READING CRISIS. Reading and the imagination are inextricably entwined, as every Western parent reading his or her toddler to sleep well knows. It is not something that Arab Muslim parents know, as Kandari delicately explains, far too delicately, in my view, to get to the bottom of the problem.
[By] the mid 20th century, …the written word, be it fiction or nonfiction, started to take off. Gradually, one new nation after another started to see its authors, researchers and poets express and document in written form. But one key factor to take note of was that the Arabic written form had no heritage.
Of course, from earlier in the century, the professional classes had access to newspapers, but such written heritage as there was went back only as far as the introduction of the printing press into the Ottoman Empire towards the end of the 15th century (Jewish refugees from Iberia printing in Hebrew) and towards the end of the 18th century (French occupation of Egypt bringing the printing press to Arabs). Today, if a household had a book at all, it would be the Qur’an. The Qur’an is never read in the sense that a Christian might read the Gospels or a Jew might read the Torah. It is recited, even if the words on the page are followed. In order to “read” the Qur’an, therefore, literacy is not required, hence the extremely high social value placed on the ability to recite the entire Qur’an from memory. Note, therefore, that someone could vocalise the Qur’an cover to cover without a single thought passing through their mind. 1.5 billion people on earth have minds made for this.
Yes, there was One Thousand and One Nights, but this was not read to children. Even where they were told, they were not told by parents to children as they drifted off to sleep. Even the classic Kelileh o Demneh, the Persian translation of the ancient Sanskrit Panchatantra, did not survive Islamic moral censorship upon its translation into the Arabic Kal?la wa-Dimna, many story endings changed to make them Islamically acceptable.
“Why don’t Arabs read?” asks Kandari. He begins with the dismal statistics, here abridged:
The most fundamental of all reasons is illiteracy. The Arab world still suffers from this condition. And if we talk averages, then as of 2023, the Arab world has only achieved a literacy rate of 76%, whereas the comparable for Europe stands at 99%, and Southeast Asia at 95%. The 2011 Report on Cultural Development, by the Arab Thought Foundation, translated the numbers of books read by populations around the world into time. Arabs read for six minutes per year, while Europeans, 200 hours annually. The fact of the matter is that Arabs still don’t read. We don’t see them consuming books. There are minimal bookshops, people reading around us, libraries that enjoy constant and recurring visits by readers.
The most compelling sense of this cultural poverty comes from the intangibles:
Things get a little complicated when we leave the world of facts and dive into the behavioural reasons or cultural phenomena that don’t allow for the engagement of Arabs with books. Beyond in the practice of faith, or in the pursuit of an education, reading is not really encouraged. And I’d like to illustrate these sequential interactions with reading that Arabs experience throughout their lives.
From a very early age, Arab children aren’t read to. They don’t own the early positive, inspirational, and formative memories when their parents read to them, reading experiences that could ideally establish real connections between the act of reading and the exercising of one’s imagination, and the stirring of emotions that subsequently take place.
Every word in the Qur’an is true. “This is the book about which there is no doubt,” (Qur’an 2:2). It is safe to read the Qur’an, and it is a safety not to be put a risk by reflecting on it, let alone by asking questions. Both the Gospels and the Torah are corrupted. They contain lies and are therefore to be kept well away from lest they corrupt the one who gets too close. Everything that can be known, therefore, falls into one of two discrete categories: Truth; and Lies. There is nothing else.
This is why the Muslim mind has such difficulty with hypothesising, with role-play and with fiction. None of these are the truth, therefore they are all lies. A mind accustomed to navigating the subtleties of fiction, demonstrating a well-developed imagination, has no problem reading facts interspersed with flights of fancy. It does not fear untethering itself from the facts. This is the faculty that Islam fears most, for it makes the Gospels, the Torah, the Vedas, the Mahabharata, the Tripitaka, etc., interesting, rather than threatening.
As a matter of urgency, Syria’s children have to be rescued from such corruption. Whatever imagination they may have developed up to this point, despite their parents never reading to them, must be expunged. Only that way can the children be saved and made ready for Islam. Hence the removal of: a fictional story; a character of legend, Khawla bint Al-Azwar (even if feminists think she’s great); and Zenobia, the real, historical Queen of Palmyra, but a pagan nonetheless. With their imaginations shut down, these children will be made ready to respond to their future orders to kill with “We hear and we obey,” (Qur’an 24:51).
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-836049
Screenshot from jihad video
The so-called civilized world has never considered the real threat of genocidal Islam. The ME mattered only for its oil!
Distances have “shortened” dramatically!
Communication with the other side of the planet is now quasi-instantaneous.
The threat of Islamism is now easy to realize.
But now Islamo-Marxism is the enemy implanted in the West.
@GreatWhiteNorthener Fascinating. Found it
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This piece reminded me of a book I read a number of years ago, Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited, which, amongst other things debunked, through archaeological and documentary evidence, the widely held belief that the Arab Muslim world saved the written knowledge of Greece and Rome from the European barbarian hordes after the fall of Rome. In reality, only scientific texts, ie., those that had some kind of military application, were highly prized and preserved by the Sharia supremacists. Everything else, namely the arts, including the Greek and Roman classics, were saved almost exclusively by monks and rabbis.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the so called Dark Ages were not in fact caused by European barbarian hordes destroying everything willy-nilly that the Romans had built over 1000 years. The author shows through 20th century archaeological discoveries in particular that the various so-called barbarian peoples, such as the Visigoths, actually preserved all remnants of the Roman Empire, including written texts, for a couple of centuries after the fall of Rome, until the Arab conquest, committed by a much more primitive kind of barbarian, which destroyed the papyrus supply chain to Europe from the Maghreb in the 7th century, necessitating writing on parchment, in far shorter supply, resulting in far fewer written documents during the ensuing three centuries, which more than likely would’ve persisted for more centuries, if not forever, if not for Christians and Jews safeguarding priceless written texts from antiquity, including what we know, thanks to them, as “The Classics”.
The core issue then becomes – can we deprogram a muslim to hate the non-programmed or non-beleivers as they like to call us? I think not!
Which raises the question:
Since in their case, it’s not considered genocide for a muslim to kill non-believers, is not the same true on the other side fighting back? i.e. To kill a muslim is self defence and justifiable. Ergo, cleansing a land of the stench of islam, is simply self-preservation.
We need to proffer that islam is a death cult (not a religion) which expands through warlike circumstance and is incompatible with human existence.