The Fundamental Myth By Blackwood
The Fundamental Myth
The most fundamental myth of the infidels (the kuffar) – and a mark, a sign, of their prejudice and arrogance – is that they believe and accept that their values, the values of the West, are “universal values”; that is, that these kaffir values are right, objective, and can and should be imposed upon everyone, everywhere.
Let us be quite clear, at the outset, that the values, the perspective, of Islam – of Deen Al-Islam – are not those of the West. They are fundamentally different. We do not share a set of “common values” with the kuffar, with the West, just as our perspective, our view of the world, is not that of the kuffar, of the West. In addition, Deen Al-Islam is not compatible in any way whatsoever with the ways of the West, with the perspective of the West, with the “life-style” of the kuffar.
We regard the values of the kuffar as subjective – as manufactured by them, and thus as fallible, whereas we regard our Muslim values, given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala as perfect, and right. The kuffar have fashioned their values themselves, according to some fallible ideas, or some manufactured criteria, or according to some theory, past, present or “trendy”.
The kuffar, in their arrogance and in their prejudice, have invaded the lands of the Muslims in their attempt to impose these kaffir values – their own kaffir way of life – upon Muslims. Indeed, one of the leaders of this attempt, Blair, recently (Rajab 1427) said that the war was about “modernization within Islam” by which he meant Muslims accepting the “global values” of the West. That is, one of the aims of the West is to change Islam – to “modernize it” – by imposing the values of the West upon Muslims, and if Muslims do not accept this Western manufactured so-called “Islam” then these Muslims who reject it are, according to people like Bush and Blair, “terrorists, extremists, and full of intolerance and hate”.
In order to understand the arrogance, the prejudice, the ignorance, of the kuffar we need to understand the errors on which they base their subjective values and how they subjectively select certain values, claiming them for the West, while ignoring the other values which the West has manufactured but which do not show the West in a good light.
The West claims the following values for itself:
1) democracy
2) human rights (or “individual rights”)
3) the rule of law
4) the use of reason
5) peace
The West ignores the following which may be said to define the West, to represent the Western persona (if for the moment we apply their own Western terms to the West) and thus these things can be said to represent Western values, what the West has brought to the world:
1) world-wide colonialism and imperialism, lasting for over five hundred years
2) totalitarianism (first manufactured in the West, and evident in Communism, Fascism and National Socialism, all of which were originally exclusively Western)
3) the nation-State
4) capitalism and the material consumerism that derives from it
5) Usury and debt, on which – together with exploitation and colonialism – most of the wealth of the West is based
6) hedonism as a goal
7) belief in cultural superiority, resulting in extermination and forceful pacification of “natives” as, for example, in America in respect of the native-American, and in the treatment, by the Spanish, of native South Americans and Indians
8)major wars involving massive loss of life, unparalleled in human history, evident, for example, in what the West calls the First World War, costing an estimated 37 million casualties, and in what the West calls the Second World War, costing an estimated 59 million casualties, with casualties of what the West would call “civilians” amounting to some 30 million. The number of deaths the West has caused in the last thousand or so years – through colonialism, through civil wars and conflicts in the West, and through its sanctions, blockades, and world wars – probably amounts to more than 160 million, at a conservative estimate. That is, over twice the population of the whole of the British Isles, or the whole of the population of what is now Pakistan
9) the wholesale slaughter of what the West would call “civilians” in atrocities such as the fire-bombing of Dresden, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Let us consider the values which the West claims for itself, and let us consider how Deen Al-Islam views these values.
