Islam is not a religion in the normal sense like Buddhism, Hinduism or Christianism. It is a typical political doctrine like communism and national-socialism. The Koran can be considered as the ante prima of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”. In fact, it is nothing more than a delirium tremens of fight against the unfaithful of the founder of this religion that knows neither love nor mercy, but only hatred and revenge.
The essence of Islam is expressed in its attitude to the unbelievers: “A Muslim owes everything to the ummah (sect, nation, group), very little to others. He has no obligations, moral or spiritual, toward non-Muslims as part of the human race, except to convert them by sword, spoils, and jizyA (the poll tax paid by polytheists). For example, sincerity is a universal human value, and we should exercise it in our relations with one another irrespective of creed and nationality. But in Islam, it is limited to Muslims” (Ram Swarup “Understending Islam through Hadis”: http://voiceofdharma.org./books/uith/).
So in this religion not only natural human liberty is negated but also and above all the essential unity of the human race. All non-Muslims are excluded from any human and moral consideration. One can defraud, rob, torture, murder, all is permissible when performed against non-Muslim. Any action, the most abominable and repugnant, will be devout and praiseworthy, if it is done in the name of Allah and of his Prophet.
Some information for feminists (from http://voiceofdharma.org./books/uith/):
“A woman’s social and legal disabilities, and even her differential biological constitution and functions, are interpreted in terms of her moral inferiority for which Allah has rightly punished her. In his Counsel for Kings, Al-GhazzAlI (A.D. 1058-1111), a famous Arab divine of his time, says that “Allah, He be praised, punished women with eighteen things”: (1) menstruation; (2) childbirth; (3) separation from parents and marriage to a stranger; (4) pregnancy; (5) not having control over her own person; (6) a lesser share in inheritance; (7) her liability to be divorced and inability to divorce; (8) its being lawful for men to have four wives, but for a woman to have only one husband; (9) the fact that she must stay secluded in the house; (10) the fact that she must keep her head covered inside the house; (11) the fact that two women’s testimony has to be set against the testimony of one man; (12) the fact that she must not go out of the house unless accompanied by a near relative; (13) the fact that men take part in Friday and feast day prayers and funerals while women do not; (14) disqualification for rulership and judgeship; (15) the fact that merit has one thousand components, only one of which is attributable to women, while nine hundred and ninety-nine are attributable to men; (16) the fact that if women are profligate they will be given only half as much torment as the rest of the community at the Resurrection Day; (17) the fact that if their husbands die they must observe a waiting period of four months and ten days before remarrying; (18) the fact that if their husbands divorce them they must observe a waiting period of three months or three menstrual periods before remarrying (NasIhat Al-MulUk, London: University of Durham Publications, 1971; pp. 164-165)”.
Ram Swarup concludes, “the very merit of women turns into its opposite: predestined damnation”. Before to discuss if Islam is compatible with democracy or not, I would like to know something about a condition of woman in Turkey and other Islamic countries because woman’s condition is the most genuine indication of this compatibility or not. Only the concrete facts have a value, and these facts are absolutely negative for Islam.
