💫 Malek Baroudi 💫
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🔴 Excluding the Other: Notes for Dismantling the Arab-Islamic Dictatorial Thought (Article by Malek Baroudi)
- January 21, 2025
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Since the massacre carried out by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023, we have noticed an increasing flood of hatred, verbal violence, incitement and accusations of treason on social media sites, in their Arabic-language content, within the framework of a bipolar perception between those who support Hamas and its terrorism and those who support the right of the State of Israel to respond to those who threaten its security, stability and the safety of its citizens. Of course, identifying the party that uses hate speech and violence is not difficult: it is the party that adopts the Hamas-Iranian point of view that hates Jews and incites against them and against anyone who might dare to say a word against Hamas and its imaginary cause that it trades in or with Israeli rights. In this case, you will be branded a traitor (betrayal of whom? or betrayal of what? The answers are many and contradictory and have nothing to do with reality), a collaborator with the West (where is the evidence of collaborating? Where is the material gain? Nothing), dishonorable (what is the meaning of honor anyway and what are its standards? No one will answer you) and even an infidel (what does a political conflict or war have to do with disbelief and faith? Nothing) and threatened with liquidation, in a clear restoration of the barbaric nature planted by the Arab Bedouin tribal culture mixed and identified with the Islamic terrorist barbarism emanating from the Quran, Sunnah, Hadiths, the braying of jurists and the barking of imams throughout fourteen centuries of the dominance of religious reactionism and herd culture over minds. Within the framework of this polarization, even neutrals who express their lack of interest in the issue have not been spared. How can you say that you are not interested in what is happening to your "brothers in Arabism and Islam"? How can you say that this "just" cause (according to the Arab-Islamic narrative, of course) does not concern you? Don't you see that the Westerners themselves support the Palestinians and back their "right to defend their land"? Don't you see the students demonstrating in American universities raising the Palestinian flag? Hamas fighters defend the "honor of the nation", so how can it not concern you? You are dishonorable and a traitor to your brothers. You are an agent of the colonial West. You are an Arab Zionist. You are a Zionist. Etc.
There is no point in going on to mention all sorts of epithets, descriptions and insults, as I don’t think there is anyone who hasn’t come across these things while browsing posts on social media. Moreover, this is not the subject of the article, as I wanted to make some observations about one of the most prominent manifestations of Islamic terrorism or one of its most important approaches: the exclusion of the other who disagrees.
The Arab-Islamic mentality is based on a monotheistic idea that does not accept a partner, and it is in fact a natural result or reflection of the idea of monotheism and the oneness of God who has no partner and does not want to be associated with Him. This idea is the most important entrance to dictatorship, whether political, social, familial, etc.: the dictatorship of one God, one religion, one leader, one opinion, one style, one dress, and one taste. If you review the history of ancient peoples, you will see the pinnacle of peaceful coexistence (which some hypocritically call “tolerance,” a term that implies the idea of inequality) among peoples with multiple gods, such as ancient Egypt, the Greeks, and the Romans. Even in the Islamic narrative (although it is part of a pile of lies that has spanned fourteen centuries and has been established by force of the sword and brainwashing as a fact without clear evidence other than what Muslims have transmitted, which is in its entirety narcissistic attempts to glorify their religion and its symbols, full of loopholes, contradictions and mythical stories), even in this narrative they tell you that the stone cube called the Kaaba was surrounded before Islam by many statues that they call idols and which represent the gods of many tribes.
Taqi al-Din al-Fasi says: “The total number of idols around the Kaaba in Mecca on the day of the conquest was three hundred and sixty idols, according to what we have narrated from Ibn Abbas, and the text of his hadith is that he said: The Messenger of God entered Mecca and there were three hundred and sixty idols around the Kaaba, some of which were bound with lead. He walked around on his mount while saying: The truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Falsehood is bound to vanish. He pointed to it, and there was no idol that he pointed to its face except that it fell on its anus, and no idol that he pointed to its anus except that it fell on its face, until they all fell.” (Taqi al-Din al-Fasi, “Al-Zuhur al-Muqtafa min Tarikh Makkah al-Musharrafa,” Chapter Forty, First Edition, Maktabat al-Thaqafah al-Diniyah, 2001, p. 345)
The same Islamic narrative tells us that the Kaaba of Quraysh was not the only one in the Arabian Peninsula. There were 23 or 24 Kaabas similar to the Kaaba of Mecca to which the Arabs made pilgrimages before Islam, including the Kaaba of Al-Lat in Taif, the Kaaba of Manat, the Kaaba of Al-Uzza, the Kaaba of Ghatafan, the Kaaba of Najran, the Kaaba of Ri’am, the Kaaba of Dhu al-Khalasa, etc. (Sources: Jawad Ali, “Al-Mufassal fi Tarikh al-Arab Qabl al-Islam” and Ibn al-Sa’ib al-Kalbi, “Kitab al-Asnam”). Despite the differences in their shapes and sizes from one place to another, they were all houses of the gods of different tribes. Moreover, there were tribes in the Arabian Peninsula that followed Judaism or Christianity (Arian or Nestorian)... Even in Quraysh, there were Jewish and Christian families, and perhaps the most famous example is Waraqa ibn Nawfal, the cousin of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, about whom it was said: “As for Waraqa ibn Nawfal, he converted to Christianity, and became well-versed in Christianity, and followed the books of its people, until he learned a great deal of knowledge from the People of the Book.” (Ibn Ishaq, The Biography of the Prophet, Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Vol. 1, Beirut, 2004, p. 162) But despite all this, the same Islamic narrative did not tell us that wars broke out between those tribes with different gods or that crimes were committed because of the differences in their gods and beliefs. The wars that were reported to us had purely material causes related to control of resources in that scarce desert environment, or personal causes such as enmity between two people or a quest for revenge. Most of the crimes were committed by outlaws who violated the laws and customs of their tribes.
Difference did not become a problem until Muhammad ibn Amina claimed prophethood and monopolized everything: starting with the idea of God (the God of Islam is the only true one and the rest of the gods are idols and useless myths - although Muhammad's God himself has not been proven to exist at all, so we wonder about his benefit or lack thereof). All the statues of the gods of the Arabs were destroyed and the people of Quraysh were forced to convert to Islam by the sword. Christians and Jews were persecuted, killed and expelled from their lands. Everyone who said a word of criticism or mockery about Muhammad, his Quran or his Lord was eliminated. The story of Al-Nadr ibn Al-Harith and Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt is the most prominent example of the beginning of the penetration of the idea of excluding the other who differs, even if this difference is limited to expressing an opinion or criticizing an idea. You disagree with me, so you deserve for me to kill you.
Islam is the only religion that defines itself by excluding others. Even the two testimonies that a Muslim pronounces are exclusionary. Saying, “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,” in addition to being a false testimony, literally means that all gods are myths and that the only true God is the Islamic God. Thus, Islam is by nature built on belittling and denying other religions, rather than being self-sufficient and defining itself in a way that avoids causing problems with others, such as saying, “I bear witness that my Allah is my God.”
These are some of the notes I wanted to make, and there is more to come.
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