Reality Redux

Islam historically is a tolerant religion, much more than Christianity (read noted scholar Bernard Lewis) The current Islamofascists are an aberration, born out of a deep sense of outrage seeing the Middle East (birthplace and concentration of Islam although Islam is dominant in some parts of Africa) being dominated and humiliated by Western powers and of pro-Israel policy of the U.S., and of corrupt Arab regimes being propped up by the U.S. and Russia (in the case of Syria). The situation is complex. I don't profess to be an expert although I have an audacity to think I know more about the subject than an average person due to my interest in history and religion. The bottom line is that the so-called war against terrorism will eventually rob the U.S. of resources to reverse its course of relative decline and to deal with China which is the true enemy. Islam is not an enemy of the U.S. or of the West as many Christian zealots have tried to portray. But if aggressive anti-Islam measures are enacted in the U.S. and Europe, Islam will have no choice but to respond. (Not all Islamic countries are retarded. Look at Turkey and Malaysia). Islam was born in persecution. It does have a complex and fear of being wiped out by Christians and Jews. (Two Jewish tribes tried to kill Muhammad even after signing a covenant of peace with Muhammad). One strength that Islam has is that although it is plagued by the sectarian split between the Sunnis and Shias, it gives its followers a very strong sense of identity and solidarity and the followers tend to practice their religion more fervently than the adherents of other faiths. Most importantly, Islam commands its followers to come to the aid of their fellow Muslims if they are under attack.


The 9/11 attacks were unfortunate and could have been dealt with more effectively by going after Bin Laden with full force in the aftermath. Instead Bush Lite squandered the resources by invading Iraq under false pretenses. He did so for three reasons:


1. Personal vengeance: Saddam once plotted to have his Dad killed.
2. Under plodding of Jewish-American officials and oil industry lobbyists.
3. His God told him that it was a right thing to do (I did not make this up). It is very dangerous to have a leader who harbors a belief and functions under a delusion that he has a direct line of communication with God. Bush Lite was such a leader. As much as I have respect for truly religious people who take their daily prayers to God seriously, I think we should remember the existence of a sobering reminder that says: "Prayer is when you talk to God; Schizophrenia is when God talks to you." Several individuals have claimed that God has spoken directly to them and they took certain actions as a result of hearing the speech. Some lives have improved because of the speech; others have resulted in tragedies. As educated people who were trained to think in logical, facts-based manner, we should regard such tales with a grain of salt and give more credence to the phenomenon called auditory hallucination. Hallucination, both visual and auditory, is quite common. It pays to read about brain structure and functions and diseases and to follow developments in neural science since after all, we are what we think. Buddha himself had that insight more than 2,500 years ago. I laughed my head off when I was accused by a certain individual of having hallucinations! The asshole's English is so poor that it does not know the difference between delusions and hallucinations. By the way, the way I express myself, does that look like to you that I have either delusions or hallucinations? The asshole is the one who suffers from acute inferiority complex and ignorance and childishness and selfishness and cowardice and other kinds of ailments that scientists are working feverishly to find out.