Appeal of the Scimitar - Nietzsche Would Get It

As distasteful as it is to readers, Al Salibiyyah ('Crusade') posts on a prominent imam in merrie olde London towne, and an Islamic lawyer who both say that that are instances when murder and rape are "justified" behavior for practitioners of the Scimitar religion.

A question-and-answer session with Imam Abdul Makin in an East London mosque asks why Allah would tell Muslims to kill and rape innocent non-Muslims, including their wives and daughters, according to Islam Watch.

"Because non-Muslims are never innocent, they are guilty of denying Allah and his prophet," the Imam says, according to the report. "If you don't believe me, here is the legal authority, the top Muslim lawyer of Britain."

The lawyer, Anjem Choudary, backs up the Imam's position, saying that all Muslims are innocent.

"You are innocent if you are a Muslim," Choudary tells the BBC. "Then you are innocent in the eyes of God. If you are not a Muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in God." See also here.

I share this tidbit because it shows so well how starting with faulty presuppositions can lead one, or an entire body of religion, into "luciferian logic." Or, in other words, a way of demonizing other human beings so as to enable "us" to see "them" as justifiable victim-fodder for the sacrificial system called "the primitive Sacred" by René Girard.

This is one-half of the problem facing the remnants of Christendom today. The other half of the problem is the neo-pagan insurgent effort from within the faltering West itself. This I describe in a fictional narrative, The Dionysus Mandate.

The difficulty arises here: members of the latter are becoming increasingly interested in the former. Why? Nietzsche could have answered it. So can Osama bin Laden: "…when the people see a strong horse and a weak horse, they naturally gravitate toward the strong horse."

Even the walls of Catholic Schools are permeable to this kind of ubermensch mentality of buckling to the primitive Sacred. Again, why? Largely because children do not see a vital, vibrant Christian faith being lived by parents or other family members. Too, they see more and more expressions of expedient violence and a gospel of "survival of the strongest" across the boards in prime time television and Hollywood provender.

Where can they see or hear the alternative of the Gospel of Christ boldly lived and practiced in the lives of sanctity, grace, and charity? Very few opportunities arise or present themselves. Hence, the "strong horse" of the Scimitar is beginning to look more and more appealing to the young barbarians living in the wasteland of the West, the bare-ruined choirs of Chrstendom.

CASE IN POINT: Times Online reports that Convicted Islamist terrorists are exploiting the growing gang culture in top security jails, fuelling fears that they are trying to radicalise other inmates and foment unrest.