July 28, 2004

One only has to study years and years of the issues of National Geographic and a trend materializes out of the fog. If a person studies those pictures and relates them to Judaeo-Christian philosophy, there is a glaring difference between the two.

If a person studies the activities of Islamic armies, there is a glaring behavior that cannot be ignored, a behavior that points directly to that same difference. That behavior results in what is called, by most, barbarism.

What is that difference? Islam does not require men to control their more basal instincts.

I refer specifically to the sexual drive in men. Christianity was summarized by the statement, paraphrased: 'if a person even thinks in their heart in an adulterous way they have commited the sin.' Conclusion: Control yourselves. Control your drives. It is considered godly for a man to cleave to one woman while controling any temptations placed before him by the beautiful female figure.

In fact, the 10th Commandment adds another form of self control in that one cannot even lust after the property of another. This injunction means that human kind must not even think lustfully about the properties of others, leading them to the direct violation of the commandment against stealing. This is all about self control. This is all about the control of one's MIND. It is considered godly by the Christian and many other faiths to totally control one's behavior, concentrating on Love and Mercy.

Islam portays one of the most glaring attitudes of liberals and democratic groups, the attitude of blaming others for ones shortcomings. Rather than learning to use spiritual tools to bring their drives under control, they blame others for causing them to lose their place in the heavenly plane.

Why are those women covered up? Why are they not allowed to see clearly? Why must they cover their bodies? Why must any sexually mature woman cover herself in the presence of Islamic men? Very simple. If they don't the man will be driven to lust after their bodies, and commit a cardinal sin. The man is not expected to control himself, instead, the woman is condemned as a being for just being there.

Why do Islamic soldiers rape and ravage their victims when they are in war? Why is it necessary for them to savage their enemies. Why, in fact, do they go to such great lengths to torture their prisoners. Why do they put people, live, in meat grinders? Why do they have a millenial history of the most horrific crimes on record? Why do they never overcome this behavior?

For the very same reason the Nazi's ravaged the Jewish population, For the very same reason uncounted tyrants became animals in war. For the very same reason Christianity stooped to the same behavior during the dark ages, inquisitions, and ravaging of the early American populations for their wealth. LACK OF SELF CONTROL. The ONLY difference was that Christians were actually blaspheming their God and Savior by their behaviors, and to one degree or another, have awakened to the fact that they are no more Christians or God's people than a sack full of hammers when behaving in direct opposition to their Scriptures.

The problem is insurmountable in the instance of Islamic fundamentalists. They have taken their Koran and proof texted it in such a way as to grant them fiat for their inherent lusts, and mete out merciless behavior towards anyone who does not acceed to the Islamic belief. There is also the placing of women, infidels, and all other non-Islamic humans in the category of sub-human, where they can be ravaged like animals.

It may not be completely fair to paint all Muslims with this broad brush. But there is still a very serious problem. One can proof text the Scriptures and find any number of reasons to be merciless toward their enemies. Most Jews and Christians have abandoned many of the obviously merciless behaviors they see in their texts in favor of the Glory of God that is underpinned with mercy. Many Muslims have similarly taken to those texts that command humane behavior. Unfortunately, though, the one drive, the sexual drive, is still left unmanaged, even in many of the most civil and humane Islamic homes. Their women are still commanded to keep covered so that the men will not see their bodies.

This one weakness tells me, for one, that there will always be problems with the interfacing of Islam and non-Islamic people. The Islamic solution to the problem is to convert everyone, bring them DOWN to their level. The non-Islamic way is to bear one another's burdens, and control one's most basal instincts.

This problem will not go away. There is probably only one solution, and that would be Islamic nations, and non-Islamic nations. As long as Islam mixes into other socities, there will be friction, and there will be the tendency for the Islamic believer to blame the non-Islamic believer, resulting in confrontations. It does not take a rocket scientist to examine well over 1000 years of history to see that the problems have not gone away.

It appears to me that because of this one major flaw in their belief, Islam has gone steadily down hill since its inception. One only has to examine the quality of the Rubaiyat, or the mathematics and science produced by early Islamic scholars to see that theirs once was a great society. Since then, devolution, the collective mind, and democracy in general have taken their whole society into the dark ages. Even Saudi Arabia would be in the dark ages were they not able to buy American and British automobiles, computers, and airplanes. Notice, as well, how the Islamic folk are unable to control their lusts when it comes to the use of their wealth.

Islam creates absolutely NOTHING. I assert that creativity is stultified when the human mind is not in control of its most basal instincts.

C. Joyce II