CHAPTER V:
Salafism, the Principal Driving Force Behind the Civilisational Conflict
Islam shall act as the sole banner, the sole emblem for the rallying, mobilisation and identification of non-European populations. It shall embody what some fight for and others AGAINST, even if — and because — what lies hidden under its din and behind its blazing shadow is a haunting biologico-racial melody. Islam is the bearer, or better yet, the only possible indicator of an inexorable struggle between peoples that are too different to coexist on the same soil. And this is not the first time in history that it has played this role; for this situation has, in fact, been ongoing for fourteen centuries.
To my knowledge, Salafism is currently the most violent and stupid form of Sunni Islam (whose followers embody the majority of Muslims in France) anywhere on Earth, as we shall see in the second part of this chapter.
Before beginning my analysis, I would like to give you a valuable reading tip: Management of Savagery by Abu Bakr Naji, published by Ars Magna. Naji, also known as Al-Masri, wrote this terrifying book back in 2004.
Naji is also, and above all, the main person behind Al-Qaeda propaganda. Yes, that’s right. The whole project embraced by the true Muslims belonging to this rather vaguely defined cluster, and by those that joined Daesh in the years that followed, is essentially found in this bible of terrorism and barbarism.
If you would like to know what the future will be like should France end up falling into the hands of the enemy, make sure you acquire this book. By contrast, if you would rather continue enjoying the comforts of reassuring pipe dreams, do not read a single line. Seriously.
The Arab-African immigrant population, most of which adheres to Sunni Islam, is growing on our soil, especially its younger generations. It is important to realise that Islam is not a religion to them — in the sacramental, Christian sense — nor even a peaceful tradition, but a crucial identity marker; an aggressive, conquering and vengeful banner. It is a crude, primitive symbol. Just like in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the Muslim Arabs defeated the Persian Empire and then conquered Romanised North Africa and Spain, Islam is a symbol of aggression, power, and ferocious intolerance, and certainly not a quest for sacredness, the divine, or knowledge and science, all of which were borrowed from other peoples. Limited to basic superstitions and committed to a single god to whom human sacrifices are offered in the form of murders (allahu akbar!) and to simplistic dogmas, the spirituality of Islam has always been the poorest and the most mediocre of all human religions, devoid of any spiritual elevation and never setting any other examples but that of appropriation through violence, an embodiment of the exaltation of one’s hatred of others and vengeful frustration.
It is, however, recommended that one reads the Qur’an (as it should be written when pronounced correctly), whose strength does not lie in any sort of subtlety; it is a reading experience that Islamophilic people never engage in for fear of changing their minds. As for the social organisation advocated by Islam, it is founded upon absolute Muslim superiority and intolerance (towards everything); a confusion between the worldly and the spiritual; the submission of society to dictatorial and clannish order; the consubstantial impurity of women, which condemns them to a state of absolute and perpetual inferiority; an inane ritualisation of one’s daily life; the demonisation of the Jews; a contemptuous domination targeting Catholics; etc. It thus renders any Muslim space unbearable for the most enlightened, intelligent and subtle type of men.
Let us return to a very important and often misunderstood aspect that serves as an intimate link and a deep-rooted historical connection between radical Islam and criminality. Our naive Frenchmen are astonished by this founding correlation, as are often our policemen and magistrates, all of whom remain completely ignorant of what genuine Muslim culture is truly like. How can these pious young people abiding by this ‘religion of peace’ ever indulge in heinous delinquency?
This is very easy to explain, for Islam was founded by Bedouin tribes of looters and warriors. As clearly revealed to us by the hadiths, which are as important as the Qur’an itself, Muhammad himself was an assiduous practitioner of violence. As I have previously explained in my book entitled Understanding Islam, one does not insult or ‘stigmatise’ (to use the fashionable term) Islam when making the following observation: religious jihadists and common criminals are united under their god allah. In no way is a jihadist a radicalised offender, since jihad is experienced as a necessary form of delinquency targeting disbelievers.
Steeped in Christian culture, we often think that religion is substantially synonymous with non-violence and respect for Others. Such a view is absent from the Muslim tradition and beyond its understanding.
Islam forms a single whole, a cold-blooded totality in which violence and non-violence, prayer and plundering, leniency towards friends and brutality towards one’s own wife (whenever necessary) have been amalgamated without apparent contradiction.
In Islam, whose origin is entirely rooted in the Arab culture, crime and delinquency are not illegal as long as they do not target members of the umma (i.e. the community of Muslim believers). And that is precisely what accounts for this connivance.
Boualem Sansal is a very courageous author and Muslim intellectual. And there are many others like him, all of whom I hold in considerable respect. The Islam advocated by Sansal, however, is a utopian one that remains purely conceptual, a pipe dream only advocated by a minority and which does not correspond in any way to the historical and sociological reality of Arab peoples. It is no more than a delusion. The same is true of those honourable Muslim women that criticise both jihad and their own culture in a most uncompromising fashion, longing to achieve equality with men in imitation of the West. This endeavour of theirs is unfortunately incompatible with the unreformable core of divine Qur’anic teachings.
To seek a reformed and enlightened Islam or attempt to artificially invent one through the censorship or exegesis of many Surahs and almost all the Hadiths is akin to striving to institute an agnostic form of Christianity, monotheistic Hinduism, liberal communism, and so on. Had Islam been willing (or able) to undergo liberalisation, it would have chosen such a path centuries ago and proceeded to emancipate its women, abandon its structural anti-Judaism, render its ritual prescriptions less rigid, etc.
In answer to those who stupidly claim that Muslim Spain and Andalusia were models of tolerance and creativity, historical research has, as in many other similar cases,[78] demonstrated that it was no more than a myth built out of one’s sheer will to spread propaganda. Those who long to reform Islam confuse it with Catholicism, whose doctrinal flexibility has remained intact since the Council of Nicaea. The doctrinal corpus of Islam, which glorifies intolerance and violence not only as means to an end (as was the case with the now bygone communist system) but as intrinsic values of affirmation and divine essence, is particularly rigid and solidly structured when compared to that of other religions or human ideologies that have existed for more than two millennia. Reforming Islam? Good luck with that!
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AN: History is fraught with numerous myths centred around minor or major events. They consist of exaggerations, omissions or fabrications and always serve a certain ideology. It all began very early with the great fire of Rome that was allegedly lit by Emperor Nero’s henchmen in July, AD 64 to accuse Christians and act as a pretext for subsequent persecution. Such claims are a fallacy, for the fire was merely an accident. The Muslim-Arab world has given rise to an anthology of myths that are often utterly deceptive and nowadays relayed by the dominant ideology. The first of these is the tall tale describing the tolerance and scientific and cultural creativity of the Arab-Andalusian civilisation that settled in conquered Spain, which contradicts reality entirely. Next in line is the exaggeration of slavery. The exaggeration of the slave trade is concomitant with the great silence surrounding Muslim-Arab slavery, which was much more important and harsher and was supplemented by centuries of looting, raiding and piracy in the Mediterranean, a taboo subject that is rarely discussed. Let us also bear in mind the official and globalised lies about the alleged misdeeds, crimes and exploitation of European colonialism. Indeed, political mythology has a bright future ahead of it.