How to de-fanaticize Muslims of Middle East ?

We all are human beings and religions were developed in medieval times to make a better human beings and a better human society. The Muslim intellectuals of Middle East developed a very orthodox version of Islam by incorporating many things – some from Islam and some by themselves. There is no command for beard or circumcision but these were made sole identification for Muslim male. The command for purdah is not as presented by them. The commands for war and death penalty were for specific occasions and not as now understood by them and at least war means war with those who fight and not killing of non-fighting men, women and children and never one done by suicide.

Same religion, same Scripture and same teachings by Prophet would have taken in entirely different ways by people of other places if these had come there as in India or China or Japan.

If Jews of Israel start killing on plea that their religion is truest and first religion then it must not be reason to find fault with Judaism or their Scripture or Prophet and such fanaticism is still found in some Jews and Christians though they are tiny minority whereas fanatic Muslims are in majority and there are non-religious reasons for that.

Why majority of Middle East’s Muslims are fanatic ?

First it is not necessary that majority of Muslims are fanatic as a powerful minority keeps fanaticism prevalent. The religion was misused to keep women and other people subjugated as in Europe Inquisitions were instituted.

It is human weakness that every man wants his wife to be virgin at time of marriage and to remain loyal throughout her life and he covets other women himself. The men of Middle East developed whole religion and social system based upon it – women were confined in to purdah and when adultery was suspected she was stoned to death.

Then same men want to save their faith by killing any person who raises doubt or says something of such nature. So they are killing Sufis, Shias and others on charge of heresy/blasphemy. They and others quote their Scripture or Prophet but similar things are in Old Testament but majority of present day Jews and Christians based their religion on those things.

Here in India, here was one noble Muslim who later became Judge High Court. His wife used to take Music lessons from a Sikh teacher and then one day she eloped with her teacher leaving behind two small daughters. Then later she returned and in the mean time her daughter had grown and become advocate and she lived with her daughters perhaps in the same house of her living husband. So there is something specific with Muslims of Middle East who get their wives killed on charge of adultery.   

So if there be true democracy in Middle East then hopefully if  open minded people are in majority then fanaticism will become a thing of past as it has been discarded by other people.

If majority opts for fanaticism then whole modern civilized World may coerce them to come in line and adopt modern laws and Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948   as South Africa was coerced to end apartheid. Thus instead of blaming Islam and Scripture and Prophet the civilized World must take fanaticism as social pathology of particular people and must institute treatment and prophylaxis like any disease.

Faith-based coercion and violence- why ?

The God of philosophy is different from God of Religions. The God of philosophy is a hypothesis to understand this Reality and reality beyond. The God of Religion is a myth and religion demands faith and human mind is free flying bird that flies with doubt and only deliberately nested in the nest of faith.

The founder of religion himself has doubts many times and his close followers also harbour doubt time to time.

After this starts the phase of proselyte and many simple folk join the fraternity of faith and their simple beliefs, their dreams and some happenings in their personal lives considered miracle strengthen the faith of veterans too and quieten their inner bird.

The human mind doubts existence of God and moreover doubts the claim of man that God talked to him or the claim he is son of God or the claim that angel of God comes to him.

Thus basic articles of faith of all the three Semitic religions are under doubt. The initial fraternity becomes powerful and so it forces its faith upon others. Some embrace faith under coercion others meet death and all this success strengthens the faith and quietens the doubt in their own heart. Then this becomes a powerful state and annexes other nations in its fold and all this helps in strengthen the faith. In due course of time, some people add some things that suite them because of their earlier faith and then ruling elite forcibly crushes such ‘heresies’. Other people who are dangerous because of some non-religious reasons such as peasants revolting against lords, they are put on Inquisition and their leaders eliminated this way. Similarly, people of different ethnicity are crushed.

The religions were developed and used to fulfil other interests of ruling elites and more likely the ruling elites don’t have faith. In modern World, every educated man and woman knows that human beings are on Earth for about 100000 years or more and they understand very well that sky is not roof and earth is not floor. They know that God cannot be man like and cannot be referred as He. The right thinking educated persons must come to God of philosophy -http://manesiro-myworld.blogspot.in/2015/11/god-is-not-as-described-by-religions.html

They must fulfil their historical responsibility of making this World  a better place and this is possible only through joint action and strong and democratic UN. The starvation and slavery must be ended and it is quite feasible and all in equality based upon race, caste and gender must end and equal rights must be ensured to everyone.

Islamic Terrorism- Jews, Christians and Hindus are happy in denouncing Islam and Scripture and Prophet of Muslims !

Jews, Christians and Hindus are happy in denouncing Islam and Scripture and Prophet of Muslims but it is no solution. The Caste is ancient politics and the Religions are medieval politics.

Two human weaknesses have been used to build up religion and social system. First human weakness is to feel hate and disgust for people a bit different from us especially if they are a bit darker or poorer or weaker. In India, whole Caste system was developed and whole people were marginalized, subjugated and humiliated and discriminatory laws were made and instituted and still practiced despite IPC made by British and Constitution adopted by country and Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 signed by nation.

The second human weakness is that every man wants his wife to be virgin at time of marriage and to remain loyal throughout her life and he covets other women himself. The men of Middle East developed whole religion and social system based upon it – women were confined in to purdah and when adultery was suspected she was stoned to death. The same men want to save their faith by killing any person who raises doubt or says something of such nature. So they are killing Sufis, Shias and others on charge of heresy/blasphemy. They and others quote their Scripture or Prophet but similar things are in Old Testament but majority of present day Jews and Christians based their religion on those things. There are small number of such fanatic Jews and Christians and they may become majority some day.

The children of those Muslims who migrated to West for open life are now joining the ranks of IS to make a State where women be confined to purdah and stoned to death on charge of adultery and to behead those men who dare to oppose or express independent opinions.

What has happened to Muslims living in the West for a generation or two ?

A young Muslim couple in US goes armed and armored and kills 17 innocent people and with total disregard for lives of innocent people and for their own fate and fate of their 6 months old baby. And countless young men and women from US and West have joined IS and are in way to join.

This is SUICIDE . Durkheim described three types of suicide :

1. Altruist

2. Egoist

3. Anomy

So it is anomy- loss of identity, loss of values and loss of reality

The guidance seeking community has lost way in modern glittering World. The religions of medieval times were better suited in medieval World. The Jews and Christians are also at loss. No prophet is to come and no clergies are able to guide them. They are reading Scripture translated in English and brood on it. The brooding about God and other World is maddening unless buttressed by love- love of family members, love of human beings, love of real things. So far followers Sufis and Shias who love their 14 Innocents have resorted to such killing.

When God’s blessings are described in Scripture, along with Sun, Moon, Plants, Animals, food etc, the man made things like apparels and ships are also mentioned. Yes Internet, automation, air planes, air-conditioning every human achievement is God’s blessings – all that Science terms ‘happy coincidence’. The Jews, Christians and Jews may live in modern World and they must understand God has given right to live and right to succeed to Atheists and Humanists too.  Don’t kill yourself and don’t kill others- it does not matter whether there is God or not and whether religion is true or not.The modern World needs joint action in place of charity to end slavery and starvation. The World needs equal rights to everybody of every race and caste, equal rights to men and women and equal rights to LGBT. This is the right path to God/Goodness.  A boy or girl when grows and finds he or she was adopted child then it becomes very shocking for her and whole World crumbles but one has to stand on his or her feet and recreate his or her World. Same thing happens with modern educated people especially those who have migrated to West. All of us have to resurrect our God and our Religion.

Basic evil of Indian mindset is disgust and contempt of human body

We human beings are evolved from our animal cousins and mentally we are maladjusted with our animal body. This maladjustment is universal. But other people are able to ignore it and live happily but we have based whole social structure upon it. The wealthy people are able to appear above common people as if god or angel and those who are marginalized appear low and wretched.

For body functions of urination, defecation, passing flatus, emission and sex we have words full of contempt and similarly we have words for penis, vulva, anus and buttocks that have contempt and we have expletives suggesting sex with mother and sister.

1. Disgust and contempt of women : The women menstruate and she keeps her clean and there is no ground to consider women impure and filthy during these days. The women are considered dirty because they receive penis and penile emissions and man himself finds these two things dirty because urine and semen come from same organ whereas in women the holes are different. It is usually talked that he has taken her ... ,when some man has sex with some woman. For woman, it is said ‘she gives’ and some woman who is easy to have sex is disparaged by calling her ‘chhinaar or chhinaaal’ perhaps meaning same as is meant by whore.

The coitus is such an intimate activity that man wants his wife to be virgin and to remain loyal to him throughout life. But men of Middle East have developed whole religion and religious law just to ensure this while men of other places though wish the same but not went so far. Their whole violence and desire to spread their religion all over the World is just for this motive. They want to marry as many women as possible and to keep them confined within house and if there be any suspicion, she be stoned to death. To ensure virginity, the girls are restrained from the early age. In Africa and Arab and perhaps also in other places, the girls are also circumcised and infibulations is practiced in which labia are excised and vaginal orifice is stitched in small girls. Jews started circumcision of male child and Muslims also do it and so their men think that uncircumcised men are filthy and don’t wish their own women marry uncircumcised men. In Old Testament, there is story where Israelites killed and destroyed whole people by treachery because one man from those people had cohabited with one Israelite girl and wanted to make her his wife.

2. Disgust and contempt of other men : Such feelings are universal but here in India , some Brahmans made caste system and cruelly enforced it. In India, the tropical Sun darkens and it darkens more who toil outside under Sun of the noon time. The simple people kept on working under Sun and privileged section remained indoor and so simple people became dark and disgusting and then work was assigned to them and it was made hereditary. So everyone started hating person doing work of more inferior status. The persons doing ordinary work were called Shudras and who were doing more dirty work of scavenging and rearing pigs and taking out hide of dead animals were made outcasts.

Manu Smriti  5: 104. “Let him (king) not allow a dead Brahmana to be carried out by a Sudra, while men of the same caste are at hand; for that burnt-offering which is defiled by a Sudra's touch is detrimental to (the deceased's passage to) heaven.”

Chapter 7 : 267. “A Kshatriya, having defamed a Brahmana, shall be fined one hundred (panas); a Vaisya one hundred and fifty or two hundred; a Sudra shall suffer corporal punishment.”                                                                                                                                                            

270. “A once-born man (a Sudra), who insults a twice-born man with gross invective, shall have his tongue cut out; for he is of low origin.”

271. “If he mentions the names and castes (gati) of the (twice-born) with contumely, an iron nail, ten fingers long, shall be thrust red-hot into his mouth.”                                                                                                                                                                                            

272. “If he arrogantly teaches Brahmanas their duty, the king shall cause hot oil to be poured into his mouth and into his ears.”                                                                                                                                                                                   

276. “(For mutual abuse) by a Brahmana and a Kshatriya a fine must be imposed by a discerning (king), on the Brahmana the lowest amercement, but on the Kshatriya the middlemost.”                                                                                                                                       

277. “A Vaisya and a Sudra must be punished exactly in the same manner according to their respective castes, but the tongue (of the Sudra) shall not be cut out; that is the decision.”                                                                                                                                                                               

281. “A low-caste man who tries to place himself on the same seat with a man of a high caste, shall be branded on his hip and be banished, or (the king) shall cause his buttock to be cut.”                                                                                                                           

282. “If out of arrogance he spits (on a superior), the king shall cause both his lips to be cut off; if he urines (on him), the penis; if he breaks wind (against him), the anus.”

283. “If he lays hold of the hair (of a superior), let the (king) unhesitatingly cut off his hands, likewise (if he takes him) by the feet, the beard, the neck, or the scrotum.”                                                                                                                                                                     

Such is the intensity of hate and disgust that some members of Homo sapience species of animals felt against other members of same species.

The things have not changed in rural India. So the boys and girls of colleges and universities who believe in equality of mankind must be sent to those interior villages where they meet those families and try to help them and see the ground situation. Adequate laws should be made and properly to weed out hate and disgust.