May. 16, 2010 | Religious Opiates | |

Mohammed-Prophet or Cultist

Ahmadinejab and Ali Khamenei has become the face of radical Islam and the face of terrorism for me, and that set me to thinking.

Recently, I have been musing about Islam, examining its current worldwide manifestation against the vagaries of its birth pangs and founder Mohammed to recent cult leaders in America and elsewhere; looking for reason to dismiss any commonality.  Were they all hallucinating, delusional, using drugs unknowingly or deliberately, were they misunderstood or collectively mad?  Was Mohammed a prophet or a cultist?

Is it possible that my views are overly influenced by some sort of bias that I don’t recognize?

I began by defining a cult in the simplest terms possible.

cult: n. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person,principle, or thing.  Cults can manifest as religious, commercial (pressure marketing), self help and counseling (never ending drain of wallet) or political (Nazi’s, communism, socialism [now progressives], white or black supremacists and terrorists from any of these groups.

Cultists who are “called to lead a special mission” by god, have traits which include:

• psychopathic behavior
• silver tongued and superficial
• manipulative and controlling
• use fear and intimidation
• cunning
• impulsive
• display inflated self worth
• pathological liars
• frequently have revelations of convenience
• emotionally shallow
• incapable of shame, guilt or remorse
• loveless
• thrill seekers
• calloused and pitiless
• faultless in their own eyes
• rationalize away their own sins
• sexual deviants
• parasitic
• display public image of convenience
• control information
• spies on its members
• recruit by any means

People caught up in these cults insist that their leader has found the true way; either to happiness, truth, safety, or all three.  Most were brought into the fold with the use of the traits listed and kept there with coercion in one form or another.

Preying upon their sycophantic character, lack of education, or their Stockholm syndrome like predilection to charismatic leadership; all preach destruction that will surely be the outcome if others do not heed him and his One True Way and enforce it in God’s name.

(Read: Captive Hearts, Captive Minds by Madeleine Tobias and Janja Lalich-1994)

My next definition was the traits of a true prophet of God, in simple terms.

Prophet: n. a person who speaks for god or a deity, or by divine inspiration; usually selected or appointed by God.  Messages from these prophets deal with short or long terms matters, and are likely to be predictive, directive, or to chastise, edify, exhort and comfort recipients of the message.  Additionally, they are likely to be given special ability or power to accomplish their mission.

Men called to be prophets by God have these traits:

• strong personality
• they are mission specific
• focused and direct
• constantly commune with God in prayer and meditation
• keep their personal affairs in order, usually
• display authority and power
• lack patience or counseling skills
• demonstrate spiritual gifts
• have a love of their people
• always obedient
• always driven to fulfill their mission
• are usually mature
• loves God more than himself
• trusts only in God
• questions himself
• stays out of his own way
• remain humble
• they are forthright

They are servants to their God and to his people, seeking to guide them and not to rule over them for selfish reasons.

After reading and studying an English version of the Koran, the history of Islam (after I was initiated a Sufi by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan), I was dismayed as I learned more about the reality of Islam.  Its many offspring displayed the same characteristics as the cultist’s.  Secondly I have spent years watching the actions of Muslims and found that they speak volumes to what Islam is today; a religion bound by cultism and fear.

Most non Arabic Muslims today are the result of historical and modern conversion by the sword, economics and/or fear.  The average Muslim is not encouraged to question his faith, Mohammed or the legitimacy of his claim as a prophet, not even when his historical actions make him more of an opportunist and his revelations are instruments of convenience.  Draw a pencil stick figure and say this is Mohammed and you may as well ask for a death sentence, does anyone alive today know what this person looks likes like?  Name a cartoon character Mohammed and under educated clones are ready to sow havoc and unleash the wrath and fury of God.  Mohammed,  if I declare this an icon of Mohammed, by Islamic standards, have I blasphemed?

Note:  Jews don’t write of speak the name of God because it is holy to them, so precious that they write G-d rather than to spell out the word.  But they do not generally run out and kill those that do spell it out.

The singular irony of Islam that confuses me most is that the Muslims cannot agree among themselves as to what defines Islam, and subsequently they have split into a wide assortment of sectarian camps, each bent of killing the other while acting in sanctimonious self righteousness.

The Iranian president and Iran’s leading clerics are absolutely ridiculous.  Speak out against any of them and you are not only and enemy of the state, you are an enemy of God.  Women are chattel and the root of all evil, and if raped or natural disasters occur, it is the woman’s fault.  Question the motives of the state and you are questioning the motives of God.  Lie and you are forgiven because everyone but the self appointed messenger of god is an enemy of God.

Today’s Palestinian people aren’t widely invited by fellow Muslim countries to immigrate, why not?  Is it because they (the Palestinians) are largely made up of genetic Jews converted to Islam under the sword after the Diaspora and their Islamic string pullers delight in having Jew’s killing Jew’s.  After all, Jews rebuffed Mohammed as a prophet and delighted in exposing his ignorance of biblical history in a mean spirited manner, aren’t they now justified in persecuting a war against Judaism with converted Jewish dogs for that obvious slight?

Cultists want war, they want chaos and rationalize any bad behavior to justify those actions; the end justifies the means.  Many Muslims (Ahmadinejad, Ali Khamenei, Sedighi et al) want to initiate a war to bring about the return of the 13^th Imam whether the general masses of Muslims want it or not; which will make cultish Christian groups absolutely ecstatic.

Sidebar: Truthfully, I personally hate organized religion(s) and the harm they’ve caused.

Infamous cult leaders in the recent past and some that are still active today:

David Koresh, Jim Jones, Marshall Applewhite, Joseph Smith, Charles T Russell, L Ron Hubbard, Elbert E Spriggs, Sun Myung Moon, Kip McKean, David Berg, Wesly Smift, W D Fard, Aum Shinire Kyo Shoka Asahara,  Luc Jouret, Ahmad al-Hasan, Maria Tsvigun, Stuart Walker, Ken Dyers, Charles Manson, Kim Il Jong/Sung, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Castro and Che are some of the more notorious cult leaders in my opinion.  To this list, I add the following names: Ahmadinejad, Ali Khamenei, Sedighi and Mohammed for starters.

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