Jihad is the logical consequence from the Koran's basic message of intolerance, hate and aggression

Submitted by Dr. Florian Deltgen (United States), Aug 26, 2005 at 09:34

The Koran does not have a passage where Jihad is explicitly defined. But, reading this book, the pervasiveness of the themes of intolerance toward all non-believers, aggression toward them and hate of them is obvious and stunning. The New Testament preaches essentially non-violence. Christians may have a mandate to missionize but the New Testament provides no justification for violence against non-believers. Indeed, if the non-believer of the Christian faith lives a morally acceptable life, he or she, too, may go to heaven. For the Christian faithful the non-believer is in error.

For the Islamic faithful the non-believer commits a sin and offends Allah by rejecting his message. For this offence he must be punished with eternal damnation and suffering in hell and on earth by waging war against him or her, defensively or offensively. If there is any established and empirically proven fact in psychology it is the causal relation between frustration and aggression. (Read Dollard et al. "Frustration and Aggression"). While Islam is an inherently intolerant and aggressive religion, the islamic world, and in particular the Arabic world, have suffered a good deal of frustration. Since Prince Eugene defeated the Turcs in front of Vienna and the Omajads were pushed out of Spain, the Islamic world has not experienced many political successes. All wars launched against Israel by Arab nations were lost by them. I have heard Islamic leaders say that Western civilization threatens Islam. Indeed, it does. Islam is trying to perpetuate moral, social, political and judicial principles of the 6th century after Christ. Since then, Christian cultures in Western Europe went through rationalism, humanism, enlightenment, the French Revolution, democratic government, separation of powers, and the emancipation of workers and women. We have created a technical civilization whose basic principle is CHANGE. Islam is predicated on the avoidance of change and on the preservation of principles that may have had their historic moment 1,400 years ago but are definitely obsolete today. The very existence of a civilization that endorses and welcomes change and that is in the process of becoming world culture must be seen as a threat to survival by the exponents of islamic faith and power. And deep down in their hearts they know they are on the loosing side. Preservation never wins agains change. The entire universe is eternal change. Panta rei. This must increase the fear and frustration of the islamic leadership, which in turn increases their aggression towards the West, who melts into one "Feindbild" with the traditional non-believers. Islam has a disturbed rapport with reality. These people need a reality check ...

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