ISLAM - DON’T CREATE – DO CRITIQUE AND DESTROY

The Muslim world is locked in a time-warp extending back thousands of years in most of the geographical areas it embraces. There are exceptions where modernity has been embraced by Power Elites for their comfort and pleasure and rarely, out of necessity. Tradition and the Islamic religion have been used to maintain the wealth wall. Slavery, sex, education, primitive religious law, and other indicia of backward societies prevail in this world.

The source of news, enlightenment, opinion, law, education, prejudices, mores and attitudes, for the most part, have all emanated from and are managed and controlled by the clergy who are supported and controlled in turn by the Power Elites. The tribal structure of the cliquish national and geographical societies has enabled the prohibition of advancement into modernity primarily out of fear of change, fear of loss of power by tribal leaders, their huge patrilineal families, and the Imams, the Islamic clergy under their patronage. Egypt and Jordan have moved toward modernity in sluggish fashion, as have some North African nations.

The difference between creating, building, growth and change, and acceptance of a rigid status quo is readily discernable in that vast world. Creation and advancement takes education, high-level thinking, learning by exposure to variety in the world, trained skills through guild apprenticeships, and spreading wealth. Creating lies in the difference between time usage and time passage. Any modernity seen in the Muslim world resulted from Western influence and work ethic. British colonialism, French expansionism, American industrialism, have been and continue to be to this day, the movers of these territories into modernity. The very work itself is performed, not by the locals, but rather by imported, highly paid, skilled labor of all kinds.

Ossama bin Ladin calls this degeneracy. He calls for the ascendency of Islam and the destruction of the West and Western values. Creating requires capital, many talents, much time, and has many attributes. Destruction requires no talent, little time, money for gunpowder, ignorance and skewed ethics. Its single attribute is chaos.

The goals of creativity and destruction are vastly different. Birth versus death. Individual power versus collective power. Freedom versus enslavement. Harmony versos chaos. A fuller, richer, freer life versus a limited, poorer life.

The motivational differences are also huge. Linear simplistic thinking versus complex thinking. Narrow versus broad goals. Despotic versus democratic societal control.

The nature of the forces of creation versus the religious nature of the forces of destruction are shockingly held up for distinction by lunatic religious leaders and are applauded with rabid enthusiasm by the indoctrinated followers of this generation’s Hitler-like religious psychopaths. In venomous utterings from Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq, as much as the poisonous rantings from the hills of the Pakistani border and the resurgence of black-turbaned Mullahs in Afghanistan, the civilized world is looking future, continuous, war squarely in the face. This frightening resurgence of religious idolatry was initiated by and is supported by the Power Elites of the Islamic world in the horribly mistaken belief that the way to maintain and even aggrandize their power is through the disassociation of their world from the Western World.

The underlying error in their strategy lies in this; oil will cease to be as important in the future as in the past and will cease to be a major source of wealth for the Power Elites of the world. Islamic Power Elites do not have an alternative strategy unless they obtain nuclear weaponry and learn how to NOT use it. The saddest element in their miscalculation is that there is a great deal of wealth to be made from war by the winners of this one.