No sane person could be anything other than horrified by the attack by ISIS on a Sufi mosque in Egypt recently. Whatever you know or feel about Islam, whether you believe it’s a sensible belief system or whether you believe, as I do, that Islam is a death-cult, one cannot but feel sympathy for those Sufi worshippers slaughtered in this horrific ISIS attack. We are all creations of the Eternal One including these Sufis and they did not deserve to die and certainly not in the manner that they did.
Yet again we see a concrete example of how the first and most numerous victims of Islam are fellow Muslims. The list of victims of Islam from within Islam is a long one. Islam keeps one half of its population, the female half, in partial or total slavery, the ideology of Islam brooks no challenge, reform or plurality and the cultures and nations that Islam creates are all too often hell holes.
Of course we should recognise that Islam is a threat to the world’s non Muslims, we would be foolish in the extreme not to be aware of Islam’s bloody past and bloody present, nor should we ignore the vast number of non Muslim societies that have been effectively eaten up and destroyed by Islam. But, spare a thought for the unorthodox Muslims, the quietists, the women, the ex Muslims, the gay Muslims, the reformers and the ‘smorgasbord’ Muslims who take the good stuff from Islamic theology whilst rejecting the bad. It is they who have to live with the constant threat of the axe of Islamic violence and intolerance falling on their necks.
‘Islam Kills’ was one of the bold statements made about Islam once by Ms Anne Marie Waters during a speech and there’s little to disagree with about that. Islam does kill. But what we need to remember is that although Islam is a threat to all humanity, it is first a threat to those who have the misfortune to live within cultures or communities that are dominated or guided by Islam. Islam first eradicates by violence and threat any internal challenge to dogma and then when all dissenting voices are crushed, turns its violent attention to other non Muslim societies. Sometimes it’s the ‘Friday people’ the Muslims which are murdered before Islam turns its attention to the ‘Saturday people’, the Jews and then the ‘Sunday people’, the Christians.
