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The Gang Religion of Islam

. . by DANIEL GREENFIELD. . September 25, 2013 . .Killing non-Muslims is


the point of Islam.
. .To the extent that it has any point. That isn't to say that Islam doesn't
preach the virtues of charity and love for one's fellow Muslim. It does. But
its virtues are not original. Like most of the rest of the framework of it,
they are lifted from existing religions.
When the Sahih Muslim's Hadith quotes Mohammed as saying, "None of
you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself";
it's a distortion of the Christian Bible. And when Obama quotes the Koran
as saying, "If any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of a
whole people," it's an equally shameless plagiarism of the Jewish Talmud.
Like the Soviet Constitution's guarantee of freedom of religion, these are
nice sentiments borrowed from other people and then not actually put into
practice.
The Islam that matters is the one that's put into practice not only at the
World Trade Center or the Westgate Mall, but in the everyday lives of
people in Egypt, Syria, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Islamic violence
we are told is an aberration. But it isn't.
To the extent that Islam is anything, it is violence. Islam may have become
a religion, but it began as a code. Like the Pirate Code or the Thieves Law
of Russia, it was a set of rules that allowed a select group of bandits to
choose leaders, plan attacks and divide the loot. The code invested their
actions with meaning, it kept order in their ranks and allowed the members
to believe that dying for the gang was more than a martial ethos, but also
contained a spiritual element. Similar attempts to invest gang life with
spirituality can be found in the tattoos, rap songs and graffiti memorials of
every street gang in America.
Imagine the Kingism of the Latin Kings street gang, which has its own
prayers, crude theology and philosophy becoming the religion of the gangs
ruling over a Post-American civilization. In the 80s, the Chicago gang
Blackstone Rangers realized the benefits of becoming a religion and
declared itself the El Rukn tribe of the Moorish Science Temple of America.
Despite the elaborate mythology, the Latin Kings is a gang first and a
religion second. In time it might become a full religion, stranger things
have happened, but it will never be able to escape its origins. It will at its
heart always be a gang code with an emphasis on providing a spiritual
overlay for gang violence. And that is the case with Islam.

After over a thousand years, after its own empires and conquests
stretching around the world, after endless religious schools, reform
movements, theological debates and splinter groups, Islam is not able to
leave its gang roots behind. It is still at its core a gang religion. That is why
it appeals so well to convicts who recognize that they are interacting with
something far more ancient than Kingism. That is also why Islam, like most
street gangs, degenerates so readily into internecine violence. No matter
how much its devotees dream of conquering the decadent West and
planting the black flag of Islam everywhere, they can't help turning their
guns on each other, because gangs are naturally primed to fight amongst
themselves.
The gang code never suffices to settle disputes among men who live by
violence. They may fight to impose Islamic law on the world, but they can't
live by it. Syria is Islam at its most primal with gangs fighting over the
ruins of cities, small groups joining up, Shiite and Sunni militias killing
each other, Free Syrian Army and Al Nusra Front gangs fighting over
bakeries and pipelines, an endless stream of recruits from around the
world rushing to join up in a gang war that has claimed over 100,000 lives.
That is how Islam began. One man and his gang. That man may not be
depicted or the gangs of his followers will blow things up.
When they aren't blowing up each other. The gang spread around the
world. Its Caliphs and Emirs went from thugs and clan leaders to rulers of
nations. And then the whole thing collapsed again. Now the gang leaders
are trying to get the gang back together again. Islam was born in the
chaos of the implosion of two empires, Byzantium and Persia, tearing at
each other until they both gave way and were overrun by Islam. The
second coming of Islam took place during the climactic battle between two
new empires, America and the Soviet Union, who exhausted each other,
and may end up suffering the same fate as the Eastern Roman Empire and
the Sassanids. The common denominator is that the rise of Islam parallels
the collapse of other civilizations.
Like the jackal sniffing around the bones of empire, the gangs of Islam
step into a vacuum, but can never fill it. The second-hand knowledge that
they steal and pass off as their own never leads them anywhere. The
Golden Age built on the labor and creative ideas of others passes and there
is nothing left except bitter resentment at greatness lost and a future
denied. Islam always reverts back to the gang. It comes out of the desert
and returns to the desert. It begins with a handful of men raiding civilized
towns and cities. And no matter how much time must pass and how the
world turns, it always reverts back there.

Over a thousand years later, the climactic struggle of Islam is almost


indistinguishable from what it was in the time of Mohammed. The world
has changed dramatically in a thousand years, but a few thousand men are
still ambushing each other in the desert in the name of a warlord named
Mohammed. This isn't the ideal Islam. But that is only because the Islamic
ideal is killing non-Muslims. Kingism dedicates itself to the fight against
the forces of Anti-Kingism. What is Anti-Kingism? It's everything that isn't
a Latin King. Islam likewise dedicates itself to fighting the Kuffar. And the
Kuffar are those who deny Islam.
They are the forces of Anti-Caliphism. They are everyone who isn't a
Muslim. If Islam stands for anything, it's killing non-Muslims. Islam can't
really think far beyond that. Its mindset is that of a dime store Alexander
who doesn't want to even think about the prospect of not having any more
lands to conquer, towns to sack, women to rape, homes to rob and libraries
to torch. The gang can only think of fighting more, killing more and doing
the same things it did last week again.
It finds meaning in the ethos of the fight and in the comradeship of fellow
gang members. That is why Jihad is so central to Islam. It is why women
occupy such an inferior position. Jihad is the gang culture of Islam. Its
bonding rituals are central to Islam whose original elements derive mainly
from the raids of Mohammed and his companions against the more civilized
peoples of the region. Islam finds its meaning from fighting and killing
non-Muslims. It is the only meaning that it can ever have.
The exercises of its devotees who memorize countless Koranic verses, who
debate the fine points of laws and prepare for their pilgrimages to Mecca
must inevitably converge on the violent core that gives the whole thing
purpose. The historical dynamic of Islam has never left behind its gang
origins. Its future is measured in terms of conquest and more conquest.
The manifest destiny of Islam is an eating contest as its holy warriors cram
more and more territories and people into an expanding Caliphate that falls
apart vomiting up the conquests into chaos. The lessons are never learned.
The holy warriors fall to fighting each other.
Islamists proclaim that Islam is the answer. The trouble is that they've
forgotten the question. And the question was how do you keep a band of
bandits from stabbing each other over the loot while convincing them that
if they die while stealing a goat or raping someone's third wife, they'll go
to a magical place full of goats and virginal third wives with skin of the
color of bone marrow. As the holy warriors of the Syrian Civil War killing
each other over control of bakeries while fighting to impose the perfection
of Islamic Law on everyone can tell you, it's not a very good answer even
to that question.

It's an even worse answer to any larger social problem that doesn't
involve twenty men trying to divide the profits from one raid on an
abandoned university. But when a religion is based on gang violence and
because of that inevitably reverts to gang violence, it's an answer that
keeps coming up again and again. The answer of Islam is the answer of
violence. It's the answer of uniting the various gangs around killing nonMuslims. Sometimes that answer even works. Assad's Alawite neo-Shiites
were able to work together with the Muslim Brotherhood Salafist Sunnis of
Hamas and the Shiite Ayatollahs of Iran and the Super-Salafist Sunnis of Al
Qaeda as long as they had a common goal of killing Americans or Israelis
or somebody.
When that goal broke down, they began killing each other instead. Islam's
answer only works when there is a non-Muslim target within reach and
none of the Muslims have time to start envying the other's rifle, sunglasses
or country. But then the violence halts and the gang begins dividing up the
loot, knives are drawn and another bloody Arab Spring begins. Every fourth
gang hip-hop song is about how hard it is to leave the gang life. The other
three are about how everyone else out there is a pretender and not a real
gangsta. That is Islam in a nutshell.

Islamic civilization can't leave the gang life and insists that every other
civilization and even most other Muslims are pretenders and that only the
Salafiest of the Salafists are the real Gangstas. Syria, Kenya, September 11
is how they prove it. We don't have a foreign policy problem with Islam.
We have a global gang violence problem.

Daniel Greenfield is a blogger, columnist and freelance photographer born


in Israel, who maintains his own blog,Sultan Knish.
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