Kant for Moslems

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Nov 29, 2006 at 18:02

Dear J.S. , you wrote :

"I read that the same thing happened with the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress -- they went to the mosques and told the Muslims who to vote for..."

To tell you the truth , I'd be very surprised if it had happened otherwise. Islam is a closed totalitarian religion. There is nothing that escapes its all-embracing grip. Politics as different from religion is contrary to all Moslem history and mind. It is a blasphemy. It is religion that only justifies you as a politician , leader of a community of the faithful. Freedom to choose is a seduction to err and sin in the Moslem eyes. What a Moslem really needs is to escape this treacherous freedom which makes it legal not to choose what Allah likes. He craves to be "rightly" guided and not to be free . And who can guide him "rightly" in such an important thing if not his local imam who is already well known to be "guided" by Allah ?

Anyway, wasn't it Plato that once remarked that one can't never make a free man of a slave ? "Muslim" means practically as much as a "slave" ("submitted") .

> A few weeks ago I came across a Podcast on the Internet (through some university introductory Philosophy course) -- and the Podcast featured an essay written by Immanuel Kant, entitled: "What is Enlightenment?" In this essay Kant stressed the need for citizens to think for themselves -- and not allow others to do their thinking for them. He advised that people should never allow "entrenched Guardians" (religious leaders, state rulers, etc) to think for you.

I am sure Kant - just as Voltaire and all free-thinkers - is banned across the Muslim world for these views which are incompatible with the slavish spirit of Islam. You have to believe and not think ! You can't think critically as the author of the three great critiques and accept uncritically "submission" ("Islam" implies contradiction of any criticism in the name of some obscure dogma) at the same time.

>Only if we are free to use our own reason will men "gradually rise above Barbarism!" And that was said hundreds of years ago. If only Islam could produce independent thinkers!

Be realistic! Islam by nature can't and will never produce any independent thinkers! What should they be independent of ?Islam ! What happens to anyone who is independent of Islam in an Islamic environment? He is killed if he too vocal in thinking. The barbarian law of the prophet is clear and simple. You are either a Muslim ("slave") or you die or you are degraded to the level of dhimmitude and remain silent for ever if you want to survive.

> But wouldn't that go against one of the core precepts of Islam? (From what I understand, Islam mandates that everyone must think alike.)

Exactly! Look at the Moslems! Look at the uniformity, the tedious repetitiveness of their dogmas ! The plurality of their sects and heresies are all based on the same few simplistic premises and has nothing to do with critical thinking in Kantian sense.

> Such sheep-like followers does not bode well for the West.

What they will produce is the reconstruction of the Near East and its chaos in Western Europe.

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