Islam, A Religion of Cruelty

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa

Iranian missile launched towards Israel. Screengrab via X.

Israelis today are the victims of sadists who several times daily launch missiles from a thousand miles away that are unguided terror rockets, terror being an emotional state. These rockets have no military purpose. They are used just to torment the Jews.

They are not military grade weapons targeting an enemy’s military installations or industrial plants. Nonetheless, every missile launched is 100% successful.

No, not successful in doing material damage to the enemy’s military or industrial base; no physical harm comes to enemy soldiers or even civilians. Each missile is 100% successful, for in the instant of its launch. it triggers air raid sirens over much of little Israel. These missiles are meant to frighten Jews, make them afraid, to feel weak and helpless.

Recently, there has been a spate online of born-Muslims who have converted to Christianity, a few to Judaism, and the common dominator among them in their transformation seems to have been a newfound awareness of the cruelty of the Islam they were raised in. As one convert said, “I asked myself, what kind of a religion is it that sanctioned the Muslim Brotherhood demons on October 7, 2023, and their gory and grisly tortures of their victims, the mutilations, and no less the psychological torture of chopping off babies’ heads in front of their parents?”

Whence cometh this evil that they inflict on people who believe differently?

On Shushan Purim, this year March 3, there must have been during the day maybe ten times when mobile phones began screeching a loud and terrible noise to alert owners of a missile launch, due to arrive in a few minutes.

And when the missiles arrive, the wailing air raid sirens, irritating and frightening, herald potential death and destruction.

And the purpose? Surely not military. Its purpose is just to cause pain to the Jews who are in the Koran branded a Believer’s No. 1 enemy.

What other religion these days glorifies the sadistic torture of people who believe differently over matters metaphysical?

In the Megillah (Purim scroll), related is the story of another attempted Persian genocide of the sons of Israel and their sudden salvation.

It begins with evidence of the kind of people the Persians were. We meet King Ahasuerus but also his eunuchs, mistranslated in the ArtScroll as chamberlains. Theirs was a culture of sexual aberration that the Muslims after them kept alive. For what is a eunuch but a male, commonly a boy against his will, castrated in order to serve a man’s harem, whose women give birth to babies that can only come from the master of the house?

A thousand years before white European Christians began buying black slaves (from black Africans who had enslaved them) before shipping them to the New World, the Muslims routinely raided southward into black Africa to round up hundreds of boys and castrate them on the spot. Most died from the “field surgery,” but the survivors were judged hardy and taken back to Araby to serve in a man’s harem.

The Megillah opens with the king summoning his beautiful wife and, the Sages see in this episode, via its context, the king’s desire to show off his wife’s physical beauty and not just her face. He wants her to do a striptease. She refuses, and the narrative leads to the capture of Esther.

Surely Esther was also not asked if she wanted to become the king’s principal new consort. It was a culture in which women were objects, which continues to this day in the Islamic world that succeeded the Persian Empire.

These days, we are in the middle of the destruction of the tyrannical regime in Iran, which rebellion was ignited by the barbaric arrest by the police in this sick society because a woman wore her hijab incorrectly. The police then beat her to death.

Since Israel assassinated the Ayatollah Khamenei, we have seen women in Iran joyfully whipping off the hijab and other garments that cover them up. And why did they have to wear them? Because the men in this culture are like animals in their wanton sexuality. The purpose of these garments that women are forced to wear is to block male arousal that leads them to want to rape women, an urge they have less than civilized control over.

Coincidentally in the news on the Fast of Esther, March 2, we learned that the day before in Paris, Dr. Tariq Ramadan, married with children, a scholar of Islam, grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, went on trial accused of raping three women, and it was not the first time. In 2017, teaching contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford, rape allegations were also leveled against him by three women. He denied the charges, but then in 2018 changed his story, saying two of the women said the encounter was voluntary. In 2021, Dr. Ramadan took early retirement.

The abyss separating Judeo-Christian society from Islam is their treatment of women. The covenant between G-d and the Jewish people requires the circumcision of the male member. It is the symbol of the covenant signifying man’s commitment to use his reproductive organ for the holy activity of creating the next generation of G-d’s greatest creation, man.

The sin of Sodom was severing the unique pleasure of procreation from procreation, a.k.a. hedonism. It is no accident that in an earlier generation, men who engaged in sex play with other men were called degenerates because they do not generate the next generation.

The portrait of the king of Persia in the Megillah is that of a god-like man with the right to kill other men for whatever reason. To appear before the King on his throne without one of the eunuchs announcing a visitor who wants to approach the king is to be slain by the king.

Fast forward now to our time when the late Muammar Gaddafi, despot of Libya, traveled with a clutch of beautiful women advertised as experts in the martial arts as his bodyguards, but in truth they were kidnapped off the streets for their beauty and turned into his sex slaves. This in the 20th century.

I believe there is a psychodynamic connection between Islam’s abuse of women and the absence in Muslim men of those most female of feelings, mercy, pity, compassion. By contrast, Muslim men can be masters of cruelty to others, e.g. the treatment of Israeli captives in those tunnels, but, it appears, in their contempt for women they suppress those “feminine” feelings.

Indeed, think of the late, unlamented Iranian Shiite holy man, Ayatollah Khamenei, who thought nothing of ordering his myrmidons to massacre tens of thousands of fellow Iranians because they no longer wanted to be ruled by him and his acolytes. That desire exposed them as bad Muslims and therefore they deserved to be killed.

Islam is a spiritual cousin of Nazism and Communism, all three totalitarian mindsets, all fueled by a satanic hatred of Jews. As the promotion of Communism in Russia was outlawed when the USSR collapsed, and preaching Nazism in post-War Germany and Austria was also made illegal, and in other countries the public display of Nazi symbols was outlawed, so liberal democracies would be in their rational rights to ban the promotion of Islam within their borders.

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