Islamic Inventions were Roman, Greek and Persian.
Islamic Inventions were Roman, Greek and Persian.
Islamic Inventions were Roman, Greek and Persian.
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Islamic
Inventions
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According to conventional wisdom Islam was a civilized and enlightened
creed during the Dark Ages, while the Christian world was wallowing in
depravity and ignorance. Islam was, therefore, the guardian and savior of all
ancient science, knowledge and wisdom.
But that is not true in the slightest. Islam took over many highly
educated and highly advanced regions of the Byzantine Empire, at the point
of the sword, and forced whole populations to convert to Islam. There were
many sects in those times, just like the Alawi, Alevi, Ahmadiyya, Sui, Druze
and Ishmailis of the modern era, who adopted a cloak of Islam to avoid
persecution and death. Those who refused to change their beliefs were forced
to live as dhimmis - they were effectively reduced to serfdom in their own
lands. The Jewish, Christian and Sabaean dhimmis of the East did the work
and paid the taxes, while their Muslim overlords ran the administration and
army, and lived in comparative luxury. This is how dhimmi unbelievers have
to live in a Muslim controlled society, as the long-suffering Christians of
Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey fully understand. Christians don’t bother
complaining that their Muslim neighbour has wronged them, because the
social and legal system will not help them in the slightest. Even in supposedly
modern and Westernised Turkey, a friend of many years whispered that he
was not really Muslim but had to say that he was to keep his job. He made
me swear not to tell anyone, that his family had been secret Christians for
generations.
So the lands of the East were not majority Muslim at all, during the
Dark and Middle Ages. In fact many regions, like Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and
Anatolia, were not majority Muslim until comparatively recently. They were
controlled and oppressed by Muslim overlords, that is for sure, but none of
these lands were majority Muslim. Furthermore, because Muslim education
concentrates on religious studies, and because most Muslims spoke Arabic,
Eastern academia was largely run by Syriac Christians. The language of
science was Greek while the lingua franca of the East was Aramaic; and
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the only people who spoke Greek, Aramaic and Arabic were the Syriac
Christians.
In addition, most of science is haram to Muslims. The Koran is
sacrosanct and inviolable, and yet the Koran teaches that the Sun orbits the
Earth and sinks into a muddy pool over the horizon; so strict adherents to
Islam were never going to make good freethinking scientists. Thus time
and time again, if we look at the lives of supposed Muslim scientists and
inventors, it will be seen that they were actually making their discoveries and
advances despite Islam, not because of it. Omar Khayyam, for instance, the
great Muslim mathematician and poet, was actually a Sui Agnostic:
From his youth to his death Khayyam remained a materialist, a pessimist, and
an Agnostic. Khayyam looked at all religions questions with a skeptical eye,
and hated the fanaticism, narrow-mindedness, and the spirit of vengeance of
the mullahs. 1
And Khayyam himself once said:
We are the victims of an age when men of science are discredited, and
only a few remain who are capable of engaging in scientiic research. Our
philosophers spend all their time in mixing true with false and are interested
in nothing but outward show; such little learning as they have they extend
on material ends. When they see
a man sincere and unremitting
in his search for the truth, one
who will have nothing to do with
falsehood and pretence, they mock
and despise him. 2
In Khayyam’s day, to challenge the
veracity of the Koran and to deny
many of its core teachings was a
deadly path to tread. The punishment
for Islamic apostasy was death - just
as it still is today. Which is probably
why Khayyam’s advice was to live
life one day at a time, in case the
Dark Force caught up with you;
and so he invariably settled down
to enjoy his women and wine. Like
Galileo and his disputes with the Fig 1.
Catholic Church, Khayyam advanced Omar Khayyam: mathematician,
poet and Sui mystic, and not a
the cause of science, knowledge and
Muslim.
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understanding despite Islam, not because of it.
Nevertheless, despite the well-known vacuous nature of Islamic
science, an enterprising exhibition has been touring the museums of the world,
promoting the virtues of Islamic inventions. It is called 1,001 Islamic Inventions
and has been put together by Abdul Latif Jameel, a Saudi Arabian car
importer, and it seeks to extol the remarkable and indispensable contribution
that Islamic inventions have made to civilisation and to the betterment of
mankind. The tour’s website is keen to note the many endorsements and
praise given by the sycophantic Western media, especially the UK’s left-
leaning Independent newspaper. Yet these enthusiastic endorsements by
seemingly knowledgeable media outlets will obviously inluence the foolish
and the ignorant, which is why we see the likes of the president of the USA
aping these claims as if they were proven fact. Obama said in his 2009 Cairo
speech:
As a student of history, I also know civilisation’s debt to Islam ... It was
innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra, the
magnetic compass and tools of navigation. Our mastery of pens and printing,
or understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic
architecture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires, timeless poetry and
cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. 3
Vid 1. The speech by President Obama in Cairo, in June 2009, praising Muslim
inventiveness. (Please see the tablet book for the video.)
But Obama is a particularly biased student of history, just as one might
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expect, and so we ind that the reality of Islam is very different. The magnetic
compass was actually discovered by the Chinese, who had been playing with
magnets since the 4th century BC, as, indeed, had Hero of Alexandria in the
1st century AD. We know that the Chinese were using the magnetic compass
for navigation by the 12th century AD, if not before, more than a century
before the lands of Islam borrowed the device.
And as to Islam giving us timeless poetry and cherished music, we
should not forget that Muhummad himself had a loathing of poets and bells,
and put many poets to death for the satirical verses they created. The roll-
call of the Dead Poet’s Society, poets that Muhummad himself ordered to be
murdered, include Al Nadr bin al Harith, Uqbah bin Abu Muayt, Asma bint
Marwan, Kab bin al Ashraf, and a poor one-eyed Bedouin who happened to
sing the wrong song to the wrong people. 4
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But if Obama has erred in his assertions, and we shall see more evidence of this
shortly, then the fawning Independent newspaper has penned a real howler.
The Independent has printed an article that heaped praise upon the 1001
Islamic Inventions exhibition. But even a cursory glance at the exhibits in this
touring extravaganza should have revealed an unbelievable number of half-
truths, misrepresentations and downright lies, that this hopeless newspaper
failed to uncover, or at least failed to inform its readers about.
And how eminent institutions like the London Science Museum
could display such overt deception as being historical fact is anyone’s guess.
One presumes that the museum’s parsimonious hands were greased by
liberal amounts of Saudi gold, and so the curators held their collective noses
and praised this wonderful exhibition - especially as they could exclaim that
it was all done in the spirit of multiculturalism. But this should be seen as
a clear illustration and a grave warning of the inluence that liberal dollops
of Islamic money can have over the Western media, Western educationalists
and especially Western politicians: for there are many quislings out there who
would seek to inluence the West merely for personal inancial gain.
The following examples of the exhibits on display at this exhibition,
and the numbering system utilized here, come from the fawning and totally
uncritical article that was printed in the Independent newspaper. 5
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html
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1. Coffee.
Rather than being a Muslim beverage, the irst usage of coffee as a stimulant
drink is thought to have been Ethiopian. And yet Ethiopia is a majority
Christian nation, and has been ever since the 4th century, many centuries
before Islam was invented. The mythology from the region suggests that
coffee originated in Kaffa province in either the 4th of the 9th centuries AD,
and the province donated its name to the beverage. And while the legend of
Kaldi may be fanciful and apocryphal, it is known that all of the arabica coffee
plants around the world originated from this very same region.
2. Photography.
The Independent newspaper said that the term camera obscura comes from
the Arabic qamara referring to a dark room. But this is complete nonsense. In
reality, the phrase comes directly from the Latin, where a ‘dark room’ is called
a camera obscura. The word camera is the Latin for an arched or vaulted ceiling,
from which we also derive the German kammer and the English ‘chamber’.
The reason for adopting this name, is that early camera obsuras were not small
boxes for family entertainment; instead the scientists and magicians of the era
made a projection into a small darkened room, with the inverted image being
formed on the rear wall, to amaze the aristocracy and royalty. The Chinese
philosopher Mozi knew about the camera obscura in the 5th century BC, as
did the Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC. In addition, it has
been suggested in the book Jesus of Edessa, that the apparition of a small boy
that Simon Magus created, as is narrated in the Clementine Recognitions, was
also a irst-hand account of a 1st century camera obscura. And Simon Magus,
as readers will recall, was the primary disciple of John the Baptist.
And not only did 1st century Judaeans know and write about the
camera obscura, but so too will any late risers in a decrepit Mediterranean
bedroom (you need very bright sunlight outside to see the effect). I remember
lying in a pension (a very cheap hotel) and seeing all the people and trafic
in the town square, walking and driving across my bedroom ceiling in a
dazzling display that closely resembled the image from a modern LCD
projector. This very ancient version of a cinema screen was actually caused by
the pension’s threadbare curtains creating a whole series of pinhole cameras
(camera obscuras), projecting tens of interconnected images of the street below
onto the ceiling of the bedroom, thereby creating a complete panoramic
scene. Such chance events must have been noted by tens of thousands of
people throughout all ages and eras, and it would not take much common
sense and intelligence to recreate this amazing effect and amaze your family
and friends.
3. Chess.
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Rather than being Islamic, chess
originated in India and was perfected
in Persia, and predates Islam by
a considerable margin. The inal
exclamation in chess, that of ‘check
mate’ is said to be derived from the
Persian shah mat meaning ‘the king
is dead’. But even that is not the true
origin, for many of these ancient
languages are interdependent and
derived originally from much more
Fig 2.
ancient sources. Thus the true origin
An Egyptian game of senet, from the
of this phrase was probably from the
New Kingdom era. No rules for the
Egyptian sah mut , *2 game have been discovered, but it
meaning ‘the prince is dead’, which appears to be like a cross between halma
became the Hebrew sahren moot twm and draughts.
Nro, the Persian shah mat, the Latin
cae-sar mort, or even the Franco-English sire mort (sire meaning ‘king’, and
mort as in mortuary).
4. Flight.
The irst kites were actually invented in China as far back as the 8th century
BC. The irst written account is of the Chinese General Han Hsin of the Han
Dynasty, who used a kite to measure the distance to the walls of a fortiication
in the 2nd century BC. The general was trying to determine the distance his
undermining tunnel needed to travel, to reach the fortiication’s wall. From
China, the knowledge of kite lying moved to India, where the sport of kite
ighting was developed. And it was from Mogul India that the kite eventually
arrived in the Islamic Middle East.
5. Soap.
Rather than being a Muslim invention, soap was recorded in Babylonian texts
going back as far as the third millennium BC. Soap was also used extensively in
ancient Egypt, the early Roman Empire and even as far north as Gaul. In fact,
the word ‘soap’ comes from the Latin sapo, which was mentioned in Pliny the
Elder’s 1st century Historia Naturalis.
*2 The Egyptian Sah was Orion, the king of the constellations in the heavens, which is why
this word now means ‘king’ in so many languages, including ‘sire’ in old English. The Egyptian
Maat was the goddess of truth and law, but since she was also the judge of the dead she became
associated with death, which is why the Latin for death became mort.
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6. Distillation.
One might initially wonder why a good
Muslim would be inventing an alcohol
distillation apparatus. Anyway, even if
Jabir ibn Hayyan was indeed fond of
his strong liquor, the process was not
invented by him, for distillation was
well known to the Greeks, and the 4th
century BC philosopher Aristotle says of
distillation:
Salt water when it turns into vapour
becomes sweet, and the vapour does Fig 3.
not form salt water when it condenses A working distillation apparatus,
again. This I know by experiment. The by Zozimos of the 3rd century
AD.
same thing is true in every case of the
kind: wine and all luids that evaporate
and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modiied
by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their lavour. But this
subject must be considered on another more suitable occasion. 6
Aristotle not only knew of distillation, and mentions it in respect of wine,
he also realised that rivers came from rain and that rain came from the
evaporation of the sea (which is why the sea does not get ever more full from
river low). Although his explanation, that fresh water is lighter than salt
water and will therefore evaporate more easily, is slightly wide of the mark,
the resulting principle of distillation is solid. Moving on a few centuries, the
3rd century alchemist Zozimos of Panipolis drew a very good diagram of a
working still (ig 3), and this was a long before Islam was invented.
7. Crankshaft.
Rather than being invented by al-Jazari in the 13th century AD, the Romans
were very familiar with the crankshaft in all its many guises and uses. The
Fig 4.
A very well crafted Roman
crankshaft from the 2nd century AD,
demonstrating Roman familiarity with
the crankshaft long before Islam was
invented. It is likely that this device
was made for hoisting up a rope, that
coiled around the center section.
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Roman sawmills at Hierapolis, Gerasa, and Ephesus, all had crankshafts that
turned the rotary motion of the water-wheel into the linear motion of the saw,
and these date from the 3rd century AD, long before Islam was invented.
Al-Jazari is also said to have been the ‘father of robotics’, which
is a rather peculiar assertion as any decent historian (not something the
Independent newspaper would employ) would know that this attribute was
irst given to the 1st century Greco-Egyptian inventor, Hero of Alexandria.
Fig 5.
The Qasr Ibn
Warden Byzantine
church just south
west of Aleppo,
which used subtly
pointed arches.
9. The pointed, Gothic arch.
While the pointed arch does appear to have
been discovered and used in the Near East,
its invention predates Islam. The irst pointed
arch is recognised to be from the Qasr Ibn
Warden, a Christian church in Syria which
used very subtly pointed arches, and it was
this prototype which was taken and developed
into the fully pointed ogive arch of many
mosques and the European Gothic cathedrals.7 Fig 6.
And in a tragic twist of history, the A complete set of surgical
Qasr Ibn Warden church resides in one of the instruments, dating from
many Dead Cities of Aleppo, the hundreds the 2nd century BC, at the
of towns and cities that were destroyed and Egyptian Temple of Kom
Ombo.
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Fig 7.
The incredible
3rd century
AD arch in the
Deyrulzafran
Monastery, in
Mardin. This
arch has been
made so lat
it looks like a
modern concrete
roof, but it is
actually an
arch.
abandoned as Islam spread death and destruction through Christian Syria.
In other words, Islam only inherited the pointed arch through the genocide
of Christian Syria. How apposite of this nihilistic creed.
Another example of a non-semicircular arch devised long before Islam
was invented, is to be seen at the Deyrulzafran Monastery in Mardin, eastern
Turkey. Here, the enterprising architect has managed to construct an arch that
is so shallow it is actually completely lat. The image in ig 7 may look like a
modern concrete ceiling, but it is in fact a 3rd century arch made from thirteen
rows of wedge-shaped stones.
10. Surgical Instruments.
The claim that al-Zahrawi invented
modern surgical instruments in the
10th century AD is utterly preposterous.
Undoubtedly the Chinese had many
such instruments, but just as one
very obvious earlier example, the
adjacent image is of an entire surgeon’s
instrument table, from the Temple of
Kom Ombo in Egypt (8.34). This temple
was constructed in the Ptolemaic era of
the 2nd century BC, and so predates the
Fig 8.
invention of Islam by a considerable
A windmill designed by Hero of
margin.
Alexandria in the 1st century AD.
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11. The windmill.
Rather than being invented in the seventh century for an Islamic caliph,
the principle of the windmill has been known about for millennia. See the
diagram of a windmill by Hero of Alexandria, designed in the 1st century AD
(ig 8). This is a good example because it is a useful machine, using the wind
to drive a pump to play an organ. Note that the pump is activated by a cam,
rather than a crankshaft, which is an interesting alternative solution to the
rotational-to-linear motion problem.
12. Inoculation.
The continual championing of Islamic medicine appears to be part of a
concerted effort to denigrate the West for being dirty and unhygienic, because
the Koran speciied cleanliness after sex and before prayer. But it should be
pointed out that the Asclepeion on Kos in Greece was the largest hospital in
the ancient world, dating from 400 BC and capable of treating dozens if not
hundreds of patients. They appear to have not simply dispensed herbs and
potions as cures at the Asclepeion, but to have undertaken complex surgery
too.
In regards to inoculation, rather than this being a 17th century
Islamic invention, the Chinese book Tou Chen Hsin Fa had already described
this procedure in the 16th century. There are additional reports of inoculation
being used in India as far back as 1000 BC, but these remain unconirmed.
14. Numbers.
They may be called Arabic numerals, but rather than being Islamic, or even
Arabic, the Arabic and Western numbering systems were based upon the
Brahmic numerals from India, which date from the 3rd century BC. This
Indian system was adopted and modiied into the 3rd century AD Bakhshali
number system, which included the zero point.
And although Algebra may similarly have an Arabic name, it
was the 7th century Indian mathematician Brahmagupta who wrote the
Brahmasphutasiddhanta, an exposition of algebra, geometry and trigonometry,
that included the irst real usage of the number zero. This, together with
the undoubted contribution to the ield of geometry by the ancient Greeks
and Egyptians, predates the majority of Islamic claims to be the founders of
mathematics and algebra.
16. Carpets.
How anyone can say that carpets were an Islamic invention is beyond
comprehension. This is as good an example as any, of the misinformation that
we in the West are being deliberately fed in order to foster the expansionist
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aims of Islam.
As just one of many such
examples, the image in ig 9
is of the Pazyryk Carpet from
the Pazyryk burial mound
in Siberia, and it dates from
the 5th century BC. Not only
is this a true pile carpet, but
it is a very intricate carpet,
which demonstrates that this
manufacturing technique
had already had a long and
illustrious history prior to this
time.
Fig 9. 18. The spherical earth.
Again, it is a gross and highly
The Pazyryk Carpet, a 5th century BC pile carpet
from the Pazyryk burial mound in Siberia. irresponsible distortion of
historical reality to claim that
Islam discovered the spherical
Earth. Even within classical
history it is well understood that the ancient Greeks knew the Earth to be
spherical. Not only that, but Eratosthenes calculated the Earth’s circumference
in the 3rd century BC, long before Islam was invented, and he nearly got the
right answer too.
And if one wishes to speculate on the more esoteric and occult
knowledge of the Earth, it is apparent from masonic teachings that the
spherical Earth was known in the era of King Solomon, in the 10th century
BC (see the image on the next page). Likewise, the Great Pyramid happens
to measure one half of a nautical mile around the base, and simultaneously
lie upon the 30th degree parallel north. Since the nautical mile measurement
system is based upon the circumference of the Earth, as is the system of
latitudes and longitudes, it is quite apparent that the pyramid’s architect
understood the spherical form and dimensions of the Earth. And since the
majority of pyramids are based upon mathematical formulae, which would
later become known as Pi and Pythagoras, it is quite obvious that much of
our mathematical knowledge was also derived from Egypt.
19. Gunpowder.
According to the Independent’s cerebrally challenged reporter, although
the Chinese invented gunpowder it was left to our hero Islamists to ‘reine
the formula by adding potassium nitrate for military use’! It is dificult to
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know what to say about this statement,
apart from ‘never trust anything the
Independent newspaper says’, or better
still, ‘never buy the Independent’.
Gunpowder was invented by the
Chinese in about the 9th century AD,
and by the 11th century rockets and
ireworks were being manufactured. By
all the accounts available, the nitrate
used in this gunpowder was the standard
gunpowder ingredient of saltpetre, or
potassium nitrate. Therefore, it is simply
not possible for Islamic ‘scientists’ to
have ‘added potassium nitrate’ at a
later date. However, the fact that Islam
saw great potential in gunpowder for
furthering its many genocidal wars, is
Fig 10. not so surprising.
The twin pillars of Jachin and
Boaz from the Temple of Solomon, 20. Gardens.
according to the designs of masonic According to this exhibition of inventions
lore. Note that they are surmounted and to the Independent newspaper, it
by the globe of the cosmos and the was Muslims who irst developed the
globe of the Earth, indicating a veryornamental garden as a place of beauty
early knowledge of the spherical and meditation. Again this is sycophantic
Earth.
drivel, written by quisling apologists for
murder on the streets of Europe.
Undoubtedly the majority of
wealthy civilisations have at some point discovered the delights of bringing
a tamed and cultured countryside into the city, and the famous Hanging
Gardens of Babylon would surely have been one formal garden that even the
dimmest of Independent reporters could have recalled (ig 11). However, if
we travel a little further west and a little further back in time, we ind that
the Egyptians also had pleasure gardens for the royalty and aristocracy. The
gardens of Pharaoh Akhenaton at Amarna would have been known as the
Garden of the Aten (Aden), and were probably the origin of the legend of the
Garden of Eden (Aden). See the book Eden in Egypt for further details.
Nobel Laureates
If Islam has been singularly unable to advance science and technology in the
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Fig 11.
An artist’s impression of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which are thought to have been
created in about the 6th century BC. Image by Juan Alvarez de Lara Sieder.
An Egyptian formal garden (below), complete with ornamental pool, from the tomb of
Nebamun, approximately 14th century BC.
A formal garden at Amarna, the city of Akhenaton, 14th century BC. These gardens would
have been known as the Garden of Aten (Aden), and it is from these very gardens that the
mythology of the Garden of Eden (Aden) was derived. See the book ‘Eden in Egypt’ for details.
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past, the same is even more true today. Because Islam has not been able to
take over any vibrant free-thinking nations recently, it has stagnated into its
own fetid cesspit of absolutism, and done absolutely nothing for civilisation
and mankind for the last 500 years or more. The igures speak for themselves.
These are the numbers of Nobel Laureates in all disciplines, except for the
peace prize.*3
Jewish laureates 172
Jewish population 13 million
Muslim laureates 3
Muslim population 1,700 million
Total of all laureates 723
Percentage Jewish laureates 24%
Percentage Muslim laureates 0.5%
Number of laureates per million Jews 13
Number of laureates per million Muslims 0.002 8
This low number of Muslim Nobel laureates is not due to any lack of
populations, nor due to a lack of wealth. The oil rich Middle East sports any
number of richly sponsored universities and Saudi Arabia spends billions of
dollars on sponsoring madrassas across the Islamic world. However, most
of those madrassas only teach students Arabic and the Koran until they are
eleven years old, so it is not surprising that they struggle with mathematics
and science at a later point in their education. The same is true of many of the
better Middle Eastern schools for infants and juniors (and Saudi sponsored
schools based in the UK and America too).
Nevertheless many Muslim students go on to study in well-funded
and well-appointed universities in the Middle East, and also to some of the
inest universities in the West. And yet their Nobel Laureate tally is, well,
woeful. Why is this? It is racism (theism), as some might cry as a relex
reaction to any perceived difference between cultures and peoples? I think
not. The Nobel system is like any British education establishment, and
therefore brimming with liberal multiculturalists who would do anything in
their power to promote the image and standing of Islam in the world, and yet
*3 Anyone can win the peace prize. Barack Obama won it simply for coming irst in an election.
On that basis, why did they not give a Nobel Prize to Saddam Hussein, for he ‘won’ a few
elections too.
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they have failed to do so. Why?
This is only a theory, and not based upon any particular research,
but it has to be observed that Islam is, at its very core, an idle and apathetic
religion, with no concept of a work ethic. The Koran preaches that this life is
but a sport, and the real life is in the next life - which will be all idle luxury
comprised of ornate couches, sumptuous cushions and every food and drink
imaginable, supplied by the busty black-eyed virgins that god will provide
for you.
The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. Surely better is the life to
come for those who fear god. Will you not understand? 6:32
The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. It is the life to come that is
the true life: if they but knew it. 29:64
Know that the life of this world is but a sport and a diversion, a show and an
empty boast among you ... It is like the plants that lourish after rain ... but then
they wither and turn yellow, soon becoming worthless stubble. 57:20
This apathetic or existential nihilistic philosophy was just wonderful for
Muhummad’s genocidal armies, as this is exactly what you want soldiers to
believe: “Don’t worry about death, for this life is only a sport.” The Koran
was written during Muhummad’s genocidal war against the Jews, Christians
and Pagans of Medina, and it relects that war in urging its followers on to
martyrdom. This is why it is so easy for Muslim leaders and clerics to train
suicide bombers, for Islam is cult of death with the Koran as the supreme
manual for inciting hatred, death and war.
However, having won the battles and the wars, Islam then has an
almighty problem. This existential nihilistic cult of death, which was so useful
in winning wars, is absolutely useless when it comes to nation building. How
do you instill a work ethic in a population who believe wholeheartedly that
this life is a useless distraction from the true and worthy objective of death?
How can you build a nation, on such a belief system? A nation depends on
many different people and their families striving towards a common goal, to
build and create a better world for us, for our generation, and for the many
generations to come. That is why we build nice houses and great cities, and
that is why we strive for a better future for our children.
But why should anyone do all this, if the ultimate goal of the dark
force is death? Why should anyone strive to educate themselves, with all
those countless sleepless nights spent in study and prep to pass an exam, if
everything in this life is but a sport? Why work hard to earn a good wage,
if Allah will provide for you, even if you sit on a doorstep all day smoking
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hash? This is a problem for Islam, a big problem.
And it is not simply education that suffers under the lethargy of the
Islamic creed, so too does sport. Take a look at the following tally of Olympic
gold medals won, dating from the start of the modern Olympiad.
Islamic Ummah
Nation Golds Population
Afghanistan 0 (30m)
Algeria 4 (35m)
Egypt 7 (80m)
Kuwait 0 (1m)
Indonesia 6 (130m)
Iran 11 (75m)
Iraq 0 (31m)
Libya 0 (6m)
Morocco 6 (32m)
Pakistan 0 (171m)
Saudi 0 (27m)
Sudan 0 (40m)
Tunisia 2 (10m)
Turkey 37 (80m)
UAE 1 (8m)
Total 74 (764m)
Western Ummah
Nation Golds Population
Aus/NZ 180 (26m)
Canada 59 (34m)
Germany/GDR 383 (81m)
France 202 (66m)
Italy 198 (60m)
UK 236 (62m)
USA 976 (312m)
USSR/Russia 697 (290m)
Total 2931 (869m)
Since the beginning of the 19th century the lands of Islam have provided us
with 74 gold medal champions, while the small number of Western nations
listed here have won no fewer than 2,931. And the tally in the 2012 Olympics
was very similar, with Islam claiming 8 golds and the Christio-secular nations
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mentioned above gaining 143 golds. Could there be any clearer illustration of
the sloth and lethargy that Islam breeds in a population? And again this is not
a problem of inance nor population levels, because many sports need very
little in the way of investment, and even the sports that do could be easily
inanced by the wealthy Middle East. What sport requires, the very thing that
is markedly lacking in all Islamic nations, is dedication and perseverance.
Another thing that cannot be done very easily in sport, is to cheat the
system to any great degree. University degrees and technical diplomas can
be bought for cash, or given away as nepotistic awards, and I have witnessed
both issues on many occasions. But with sport, lashings of money or high-
level political inluence within a society means absolutely nothing, for the
stopwatch is the inal arbiter of talent. Even the drug taking that we have all
heard about, would be of no advantage to the indolent Muslim with wads of
cash in his hand. Most sporting drugs merely allow athletes to train harder
and longer, they do not produce champions from the idle who make no effort.
Islam may be able to buy the 2022 World Cup football tournament, but it
cannot buy the gold medal in the men’s 100m sprint.
And as further evidence for this assertion, look at those Islamic
medal totals again. Turkey, the most Western and least Islamic of all the
nations in that list, won a full 50% of all the Islamic gold medals. This is
clear evidence that the fault lies with Islam itself, for it is a nihilist creed that
preaches that nothing in this world is of any signiicance. In Islam, only the
next world matters and so striving to achieve anything in this world, even a
humble sporting achievement, is both pointless and meaningless. But where
Islam is diluted, even with a small portion of Western secularism, as it is in
Turkey, suddenly the people can achieve greater success.
Islamic success
But perhaps we should not be too harsh on Islam and Muslims, for there is
one ield of human endeavour where they outshine all other religions, creeds
and cultures put together - acts of terrorism. The website Religionofpeace has
been counting the number of Islamic terrorist attacks since 2001, and it has
thus far reached the impressive tally of 22,000 deadly Islamic attacks across
the world since that time, resulting in about 120,000 deaths. That is nearly ive
terrorist attacks and 25 deaths, each and every day for ten whole years. That’s
more murders in four months than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition,
and more murders in four months than in all 36 years of the Northern Irish
Troubles. Bravo for Islam, the so-called Religion of Peace, bravo.
Think about this for a moment, we wring our hands about some
of the many atrocities committed in the past, and yet the majority of these
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pale into insigniicance when compared to Islamic murders across the globe.
And this is not some fabricated mythology derived from a diet of rabid
Western bias against everything Islamic, it is the reality of the world around
us - this is the sole reason why we are subjected to lengthy and humiliating
security searches at airports, for there is no other worldwide terrorism to
protect us against. So let us look at the world’s trouble hotspots over the last
few decades, and readers will ind that they will include: Bosnia, Kosovo,
Chechnya, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Darfur, Yemen, Algeria, Libya,
Afghanistan, Kashmir, Kurdistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Bali, New
York, Washington, Mumbai, Beslan, Moscow, Madrid, London and Glasgow.
And now, just to add to all that woe, tragedy and mayhem, we now
(in 2011) have civil unrest on the streets of the feudal nations of Morocco,
Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Yemen. Just what is it that
links all these trouble hotspots? Let us think for a minute. It is Hinduism?
Is it Judaism? Is it Christianity? Is it Buddhism? Is it Agnostic Atheism? Is
it blackness or whiteness? Is it tallness or shortness? Is it Western or Eastern
culture? ... Or is it just, perhaps, Islam? But no, none of this terror can be the
fault of Islam, because the liberal Western media says it is all our fault for
being too critical, or perhaps it is the fault of Israel, or maybe George Bush,
or those evil oil companies, or perhaps even the tooth-fairy - but it is never
the fault of Islam.
So let’s pause for a minute, and think logically and rationally. It
is time we faced the facts, instead of inding an excuse for each and every
terrorist outrage - all 22,000 of them since 2011. Let’s call a spade a spade: the
fundamental problem with all the world’s civil wars and terrorism is Islam.
Ralph Ellis
June 2011
Extracted from:
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2. In Search of Omar Khayyam. Trans. L.P. Elwell-Sutton
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