What Western Muhammad–haters ignore!

How can a Western intellectual, ideologist, politician, theoretician, philosopher, historian fall into the trap of the Islamic Terrorists, the likes of Qaradawi, Amr Khaled, Tareq Ramadan and Ossama Bin Laden?

The question sounds even more reasonable, if we take into consideration the great advance of the Western scholarship, particularly in Humanities. Yet, this most preoccupying affair risks driving the West to a frontal, religious war that can be lost. And it would be so preposterous!

No one asks the West to withdraw from a war declared against them by the Islamic extremists and terrorists; but trying to make of Prophet Muhammad a mischievous impostor and an uncultured thug consists in the best guarantee of entering into an unjust war that cannot be won. We will not get involved – in the present article – into population dynamics, although they play a certain role, if we achieve to reach the level of 1.2 billion turning become suicide bombers and Death worshippers.

If irrelevant, ignorant and irresponsible people, like Robert Spencer, the unknowledgeable compiler of a distortion entitled ‘The Truth about Muhammad’, are not contained and marginalized, the entire western world will be pulled into a misconceived and disastrous confrontation that would radicalize the entire Muslim World in extremis.

We would rather focus on the historical background of the erratic author's subject, concentrating the present analysis more onto the ‘wrong’ than the ‘unjust’ character of this sinister compilation.

1. The West must study and get rid of the historical burden of traditional, medieval, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Gueze (Abyssinian), Armenian, Slavic, Georgian and Latin, religious, Christian anti-Islamic literature.

The fact that Pope Benedictus XVI referred to Manuel II Paleologus’ criticism of Muhammad must not slip from our memory; in reality, the terms used by the intellectual early 15th century ruler of the ailing Eastern Roman Empire are pale if compared to those used by Syriac, Gueze, Coptic, Greek, and Latin authors of the 7th and the 8th centuries. As early Islam appeared as another Christological dispute, a kind of extreme Nestorianism, virulent and vociferous theologians felt obliged to react and either Monophysitic or Orthodox/Catholic (then united) they used the entire arsenal of verbal atrocities against Muhammad, the ostensible leader of the new, rising religious system.

What many Muslims do not realize in this regard is that the ferocity of the attacks testifies to the vicinity of the two religions. Muhammad appeared as the last of a long list of leaders, who like Arius, Eutyches, Theodore of Mopsouestia, and Nestorius, rejected the dictatorially imposed dogma of the Constantinopolitan patriarchs and emperors. The threat was viewed as originating from inside, not outside! The immediate endorsement of Islam by a significant number of Aramaeans living in the Eastern Roman Empire and in the Sassanid Empire of Iran made of the Mekka born religion a theological – ideological system in the immediate propinquity of Constantinople and Rome.

The early Islamic successes in Jerusalem, Antioch, Damascus, Edessa, Ctesiphon, and Alexandria were perceived as an unprecedented and lethal threat by the Constantinopolitan and the Roman establishments; in striking difference with the cases of Arius, Nestorius, Pelagius, and so many other, rejected and persecuted, theologians, intellectuals and philosophers, who did not have state support, and were dealt with in a brutal, oppressive way, the new opposition to the established Christian dogma was born outside the imperial control, fast formed a basis for support, and then gained large backing within the empire through a) the early conversions, and b) the wholehearted Aramaean preference to Political Islam than to Murderous, Criminal and Inhuman Constantinople.

The Patriarch and the Emperor felt for the first time possible for the Official Christianity to cease to exist. Their chronicles and legislation show extreme panic and unique desolation. As consequence, their attacks against the leading person of the opposition turned out to be even more bitter and more venomous than the words earlier said against Nestorius, Arius and Theodorus of Mopsouestia.

However, Modern Europeans and Americans cannot afford to go back to the 7th century; later developments and the rise of modern societies brought about a sense of Justice and Equity, a truthful Understanding of the catastrophic past, and a moral Responsibility for self-Criticism. Today one Christian has to admit that the rise of Roman Christianity has been a very bloody story, involving extensive massacres of populations rejecting the dictatorially imposed version of Christianity, and even more massive massacres of diverse populations rejecting Christianity altogether and sticking to their earlier religious systems from Egypt to Gaul and from Phoenicia to Iberia.

For this reason, modern Christianity must denounce traditional, Muhammad-hatred promoting literature that serves nothing but historical research. It is unreliable, and extremely misleading as reflecting a historical period that is diametrically opposed to ours. We have nothing to gain, if we try to go back to the times when Muslims invaders blinded the Taormina bishop, and Norman invaders had the Muslims’ hands cut off from the elbows.

2. The West must reconsider / reestablish its Humanities, and in particular Islamology.

Many centuries after the Crusades failed, Western countries mounted another scheme against Islam, and attacked, detached, annexed, and disfigured (culturally, educationally, socially, behaviourally, politically and economically) vast lands of the Islamic Caliphate, i.e. the Ottoman Empire. To do so, they set up a vast and complex system of disciplines within the Humanities, namely the Orientalism. There was extreme premeditation of political nature, since the target was to prove the idiotically supposed as superior past of the European colonial countries, Rome and Greece, as the epicenter of the World History. Discoveries and decipherments proved constantly and for more than 200 years the opposite, but the perpetrators of the Orientalist falsehood did not adapt their Greco-Romano-centrist fallacies to fresh knowledge and new data. The criminal Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres at Paris keeps diffusing the same monstrous compilation even today, having as emblem Athena, a late Greek copy of the Assyrian Ishtar of Arbela, and/or of the Egyptian Isis, although the Assyrian and Egyptian models antedate the Greek by more than 2000 years!

By depriving peoples and great nations from their real history – that is greater, superior, more authentic, more sophisticated, more human, and more central to the World History (than the also misinterpreted history of the Greeks and the Romans) – Western academics drove masses to vulgar behavioural system, severe complex of inferiority at national scale, undeserved total humiliation, and ultimate despair, an amalgamation that translates to Islamic Terrorism.

Within the highly sophisticated complex of Orientalism, the case of Islamology remains the worst, most provocative falsification that could ever exist. This must not be misunderstood; falsification does not imply only distortion of well known and widely accepted, obvious data. When Soviet Assyriologists published per year more 200 monographs about Assyria, and all these research papers focused exclusively on trade, labor conditions, economic policies, taxation systems, and there was not a single article about Etana, the Assyrian mythical concept of Messiah, not a single article about Sin, the Moon, as Assyrian symbol for the Elected People (the Assyrians), not a single article about Ut Napishtim, the Assyrian Babylonian Noah, whose tradition shaped later sources within Christianity and Islam, not a single article to interpret the Assyrian mythical concept (and homonymous epic) of ‘The Descent of Ishtar in the Nether World’, then certainly the Soviet Assyriologists misled their audience, because they did not reveal (out of the Ancient Assyrian context) what was important for the Assyrians (but what was important for the … Soviets).

Western Islamology has been a pale, bogus-discipline that failed to produce even basics! More than 200 years of Islamology were probably not enough for the bogus-scholars of France and England (and the unfortunate, European and American followers of them) to come up with a complete translation (in at least one European language) of Tabari (still in use can be found the abridged German translation of ……1877), a historian far more important for the World History than the disreputable, racist and discriminatory, Carian, anti-Persian agent of the Athenians, named Herodotus.

Two hundred years of disreputable French and British Orientalist authority were not enough for them to come up with at least one modern European translation of Futuhat al Maqqiyeh of Muhyiddin Ibn Al Arabi, probably because the Platonic dialogues and Cicero’s plagiarisms would look of far lower level constructions of the intellect.

Two hundred years of bogus-Humanities at the hands of French and British pseudo-scholars were certainly not enough for them to go ahead with a complete translation of Masnavi-ye Ma’navi because it would become very clear for modern readership that Jelaleddin Rumi Mevlana was superior to both, Homer and Socrates, to say the least.

All this must take an immediate end and for many reasons:
a. Europeans and Americans pretend to be open to Truth and Fairness, Justice and Knowledge. You cannot keep pretending so, while keeping under silence the greatest masterpieces of the Human Intellect. You cannot claim equity and fair judgment, if through trickeries you contribute to ignorance.
b. Muslims allover the world will prove to be right when accusing the West for premeditated empathy against Islam and the Peak of Human Intellect and Art.
c. People allover the world, Buddhists, agnostics and atheists, will not have any reason to believe the Western pretension of justice in fighting against Islamic Terrorism, if unprecedented partiality and unfair treatment will be reproached to Western universities, academia and intellectuals.

3. The West must understand in depth the Islamic History.

As much as Western people know the Ancient Greek and Roman History, so much they must become acquainted with Islamic History through a non-Colonial standpoint.

So, the first step in this regard is to close down the infamous Institut du Monde Arabe that, established in the Center of the Historical Forgery, Paris, diffuses the criminal Pan-Arabist dogma, naming the Islamic Art ‘Arabic Art’, the Islamic Literature ‘Arabic Literature’, the Islamic Philosophy ‘Arabic Philosophy’, and plunging more than 200 million of people into national disfiguration, cultural alteration and alienation, misleading falsehood, antihuman barbarism, vulgar behavioural system, total ignorance, socioeconomic regression and, last but not least, permanent fratricidal bloodshed.

While petitions are available on the web against the outrageous – due to French inspiration – usurpation of cultural Heritage, undertaken through the use of the historically false name of ‘Arabs’ instead of Aramaean, Coptic, Berberic, Persian, Turkish, Central Asiatic, Iberian, Indian, African, and Yemenite Islamic (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ils_n_etaient_pas_tous_arabes/signatures.html), it is high time to demand the immediate demolition of the Institut du Monde Arabe, epicenter of the Worldwide Islamic Terrorism.

Second step to understand in depth Islamic History is to approach through a revised Orientalist standpoint and view Islam as a phenomenon coming as continuity to the Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Phoenician, Aramaic, Biblical, and Persian monotheism and aniconic cults. Within all the Ancient Oriental civilizations, there were monotheistic trends that prevailed within the Biblical Hebrew religion, Talmudic Judaism, and Islam. Christianity represents in this case the prolongation of the Ancient Polytheistic trends of the Oriental Religions, with representations of the divine, rituals related to Death and Resurrection of one God, and a myriad of other seminal polytheistic concepts.

Either the advanced Western academia will admit the scholarly accessible truth about Islam, accepting finally what they never wished, namely its profound Historicity that surpasses that of Christianity in terms of monotheistic credentials, or the entire West will face the abominable and uncivilized face of the bogus-Islamic terrorists, the likes of Ossam Bin Laden and Qaradawi, Amr Khaled and Ayman Zawahri.

Understanding the Islamic History is an easy task if a scholar advances without partiality, preconceived biases, inequitable prejudices, bigotry, and premeditated conclusions.

One does not ask the childish and silly false professors of Al Azhar to carry out the task, but Western scholars can apply textual and historical criticism on the Coran and the Hadith, on chronicles and all sorts of Islamic historical texts, epigraphic evidence and further documentation, adding also interdisciplinary research.

Without a jaundiced eye, one can easily dismiss any text relating to eventual relationship between the Prophet and Bakr’s daughter Aisha. It is clear that in favor of the Aisha myth, numerous Hadith have been added, various Hadith have been dismissed, and even a verse was added in the Coran by the gangsters around Bakr (partial and therefore inappropriate to call him Abu Bakr) and Omar Ibn al Khattab.

Western scholars have nothing to fear in pointing out what they would in case the story concerned Caesar, Cleopatra, Octavian, Theodosius, Justinian, let alone Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The dynamism of the juxtaposition was such, the thunder emitted by the ideological polarizations was such that the conflicting groups used all machinations, creating stories, destroying texts, altering words, and modifying meanings. The brutal confrontations between the Enlightened Party of Ali, and his wife Fatima, the First Muslim Woman, the Real Umm al Mumminin, and the Satanic forces of Bakr, Omar, Uthman and Muawiyah that attempted to completely forge the preaching of Muhammad allow us to understand what happened not only after (when they finally split) but also before the death of the Prophet.

With today’s Muslims confined to sterility and apathy, Western scholarship must delve, without prejudice, into this subject with all the methods available thanks to the modern discipline of History. If not for the sake of real Islam but for their sake, Western academia have got to set up textual and historical criticism in Islamology, eliminating the misconceptions advanced by a poor and misleading theological system, namely that of Ibn Taimiya.

4. The West must identify the ideological origins of the modern Islamic Terrorists.

Instead of contributing to the anti-Western policies of the terrorists, Western academics, intellectuals and administrations should work along with enlightened Muslims allover the world the focalize, analyze, understand, explain, and ultimately outmaneuver the Islamic ideological – theological branch that ended up as
a. the Christianized false Islam of the sheikhs (priests are prohibited in Islam and the sheikhs have become priests),
b. the Satanic Cult of Death, Hatred and Hysteria,
c. the desolate realm of apathy and bestiality,
d. the religion of barbaric and the illiterate psychopaths who suffer from complex of inferiority and extreme ego-pathy at the same time.

Focus must be made on the long fight between Humanity and Bestiality within Islam (a phenomenon that occurred in all milieus and environments throughout History):
1. the conflict between Aramaean (indigenous populations of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia who accepted Islam and gave to it contents in terms of Letters, Sciences, Arts, Philosophy and Civilization) and nomadic, uncivilized and only superficially Islamized Arabs
2. similar conflicts between Copts and Arabs, Persians and Arabs, as well as Berbers and Arabs
3. all confrontations of the type open minded – narrow minded approaches a reflecting the first types of clash
4. the broader Shia – Sunni conflict in the earlier stages of Islam (before the fall of Baghdad)
5. the opposition between the enlightened Abu Hanifa and Malik Ibn Anas
6. the confrontation between the methodic Shafi and the erratic Hanbal
7. the frontal theoretical battle between the great philosopher Ibn Rushd and the skepticist, occasionalist, illusionary al Ghazali
8. the opposition of Ibn Hazem to Hanbalism
9. the rivalry between the Philosopher of Depth Abu Abdallah al Qurtubi and the miserable pseudo-prophet of hatred Ibn Taimiya

The question must be asked:
- How the environment that promoted people like Khawarizmi, Ibn Sina, Ferdowsi, Maqrizi, Ibn Khaldun, Nezami, and Ulugh Beg, grandson of Tamerlane, who was the world’s top astronomer in the mid 15th century, was left empty of intellect, wisdom and knowledge, devoid of art, spirituality, intuition and even commonsense within a period of 200 years (1550 – 1750)?

The answer to this question with lead the West Beyond the Predicament of our Confused Times: Islam vs. West.

It will testify to the diachronic reality of only one real clash: that of Humanity vs. Bestiality.

And it will be concluded, safely enough for all, that the human and the bestial cohabitated in all the religions and all the cultures of the world.