Islam

Islam is, at its foundation, an extension of the same Abrahamic programme that produced Judaism and Christianity. The same "God." The same prohibition of spiritual knowledge. The same demand for submission (the word "Islam" literally means "submission," from the Arabic root s-l-m). The same systematic destruction of every indigenous spiritual tradition it encounters. Different cultural packaging. Identical function.

Wherever Islam has spread, the Ancient Gods have been attacked with a thoroughness that mirrors the Christian campaign. The pre-Islamic Arab traditions (the worship of Allat, al-Uzza, and Manat, mentioned in the Quran itself at 53:19-20 before being theologically nullified in what became known as the "Satanic Verses" incident) were systematically exterminated. The idols at the Ka'aba in Mecca, representing the Gods of the Arab Pagan traditions, were destroyed by Muhammad in 630 CE. The Zoroastrian heritage of Persia, one of the oldest continuous religious traditions in the world, was devastated by the Arab conquest of 633-654 CE; fire temples were destroyed, priests were killed, and forced conversion reduced a civilisation that had flourished for over a thousand years to a persecuted remnant. The Buddhist cultures of Central Asia were similarly targeted: the Bamiyan Buddhas, two monumental statues that had stood for 1,500 years in what is now Afghanistan, were dynamited by the Taliban in March 2001. The Hindu traditions of the Indian subcontinent suffered the campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni, who conducted 17 raids into India between 1000 and 1027 CE, destroying the Somnath temple (one of the most sacred sites in Hinduism) in 1026 and carrying away its treasures.

The Yezidis have suffered most. The Yezidi people of northern Mesopotamia preserved the worship of Melek Taus (the Peacock Angel, another name and form of the God we call Zeus) through 74 documented genocides at the hands of Islamic armies spanning over a thousand years (Birgül Açikyildiz, The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion, 2014). The Ottoman campaigns against the Yezidis were methodical and recurrent. Most recently, ISIS targeted the Yezidi population of Sinjar in August 2014, killing an estimated 5,000 and enslaving approximately 7,000 women and girls (United Nations Human Rights Council Report, 2016). This is not ancient history. This is Izfet in action, today, in the 21st century. Isya Joseph's Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz (1919) remains one of the earliest Western scholarly accounts of the Yezidi religion, documenting the Al Jilwah and the Mashaf Resh (Black Book) as sacred texts of a tradition that predates Islam by millennia.

The mechanism of control is identical to Christianity's. Islam strips humanity of spiritual autonomy and concentrates it in the hands of religious authority. The prohibition of images prevents the visual representation of the divine (and therefore the preservation of pre-Islamic iconography). The prohibition of independent spiritual practice outside the prescribed forms (the five daily prayers, the Hajj, the fixed rituals) ensures that the individual never develops a direct, unmediated relationship with the divine. The prohibition of music and dance in conservative interpretations eliminates the Sufi practices that come closest to genuine ecstatic communion with the Gods. These aren't incidental features of the religion. They're Eilotil (spiritual enslavement) operating through cultural enforcement.

The Quran explicitly demands submission to a single God and threatens destruction for all alternatives: "And whoever desires other than Islam as religion, never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers" (3:85). This is the same exclusivist claim made by Christianity (John 14:6: "No one comes to the Father except through me"). Same programme. Same logic. Same outcome: the destruction of all spiritual alternatives and the monopolisation of the divine by a single institution. The Zevist position toward Islam is the same as toward Christianity: these are Yehuboric systems of spiritual control that have inflicted incalculable damage on humanity and on the Gods. The Abrahamic Inversion covers the full mechanism. The Family of the Gods offers the alternative that both Christianity and Islam have spent centuries trying to prevent you from finding.