Serkan Engin, a poet, a
socialist, and a Laz, sent for
publication to Jihad Watch the following, which deserves to be widely
reprinted:
Why Islam is Worse Than
Nazism
by Serkan Engin
I am an atheist author and poet,
who had lived as a Sunni Muslim for 23 years from birth, and I am still living
in a Muslim country, Turkey. Also, my parents and all of my relatives are still
Muslim. So, my critics about Islam can be easily consider this an inside view.
I know that the title of this
essay seems assertive, but I will explain the rightness of this title
step-by-step in this essay.
First of all, you have to learn
about Islam that if you are an “outsider”, a non-Muslim, for example, a
Christian, an atheist, a Buddhist, a Jew or whatever else, all Muslims have the
“right” of killing and raping you, grabbing all your properties, your country,
land, money and anything else. They take this “right” from the book of their belief,
the Quran. In other words, they take this “right” from their belief’s core, the
theology of Islam.
Here are some examples of this in
verses from Quran.
This verse of Quran is about “all
non-Muslims”, all “heretics”! — Christians, Buddhists, atheists, Jews, etc. —
describing them “who wage war against Allah and His
Messenger (Muhammad)”
“Indeed, the penalty for those
who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause]
corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and
feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That
is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great
punishment.”
And this verse of the Quran is
about the order to killing the humans who left Islam, the
apostates:
“They wish you would disbelieve
as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them
allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then
seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them
any ally or helper.”
Look at the current situation in
Syria. How can Islamist terrorists slaughter Alawite people or rape Christian
women so easily? Because they take this “right” from their belief and they
believe that they will go to the heaven because of these vandalistic actions
against “outsiders”, who are out of Islam, who don’t believe the same religious
tenets — in other words, those who are the “heretics” according to their
belief. Some Muslims say, “But they are not the real Muslims.” That is a big
lie; that is the exact form of real Islam, because these vandalistic actions
are in accord with the orders of Quran.
You have heard many times that
“Islam is a tolerant religion”. That is the biggest lie that you can hear all
over the World, and this lie is used as a mask to hide the terrible face of
Islam. There is NO difference between Islam and Islamism. This is the main
error that the modern world make about Islam. There are not different forms as
Islam and Islamism, they are the same thing, and they have the same content.
This separation is just only an illusion, and it is used by Muslims to hide the
brutal, hateful, oppressive,murderous, genocidal face of Islam.
Islamic theology is based on the
verses of the Quran and Hadith. Hadiths are the words and actions of the
Islamic prophet Muhammad, and all Muslims must follow these words and actions
in addition to the orders of Quran. For example, you have to defecate as
Muhammad did, and you have to clean yourself as he did, or you can rape and
enslave a “heretic” woman in a war as a sex slave as Muhammad did, or you can
torture your enemy in a war to learn the place of his hidden money, as Muhammad
did.
You “must” cut the hand of a
thief as Muhammad did, not give him any prison sentence as do the modern laws.
You must stone a woman to death
as Muhammad did, because she had sex outside of the rules of Islam (but you
must only whip her partner a hundred times). If you are a Muslim, you can never
set them free while considering that their sexual actions are about their own
personal relations and freedom, in accord with modern laws. You must definitely
apply the punishments of Muhammad such as stoning the woman to the death and
whipping her partner a hundred times if you want to be a good Muslim.
You must kill the man who left
the belief of Islam, as Muhammad did. You can’t say “This is his own choice and
he has the freedom of thought and belief”, because it is an order of the Quran
that you “must” kill the persons who were Muslim before and then left the
Islamic religion.
You must kill all homosexuals
according to the orders of Islam. No Muslims can say according to Islam that
their sexual orientation is their own natural right, in accord with the human
rights norms of our age.
You have the “right” to marry a
little girl at 9 years old, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape a
little child legally in Islam and make her a sex slave, and also a domestic
slave till the end of her life.
You can lie alongside of your
dead wife for 6 hours, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape the dead
body of your wife for 6 hours after her death.
Here is Islam…Here is the
“tolerant religion”…Here is the right way to the heaven…Here are the orders of
Allah…Here are the actions of Muhammad…
You can easily see how civilized
the Muslim countries of the world are because of Islam, such as Afghanistan,
Nigeria, Turkey, Iran, Sudan and the others. You can see how much they have
contributed to the history of philosophy, the history of art, and the history
of science of the whole world. You can see how respectful they are to human
rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, the freedom of expression and
thought, the freedom of the press, the freedom of belief, etc.
The first genocide wave of 20th
century, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide and the Pontic Greek Genocide,
was perpetrated by Turkish and Kurdish people of the Ottoman Empire and the new
Turkish Republic, getting motivation from the “rights” that they had because of
Islam: the “rights” of killing and raping the non-Muslims, enslaving their
women and little girls as sex slaves and also domestic slaves, and grabbing
their money, houses and lands. However, “The Committee of Union and Progress”
(CUP) (Turkish: İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) was based on Turkish nationalism;
they used Turkish and Kurdish people easily for these genocides because of the
Islamic religion’s content about non-Muslims. All the Turkish and Kurdish
Muslims believed that they would go to the heaven if they killed more
non-Muslims, as do today’s Islamist terrorists.
The owners of the second genocide
wave of 20th century were Nazis, as you know. They took the genocides of the
Turks as a sample. It is know that Adolf Hitler said to his military
commanders, “Who, after all, speaks today of the
annihilation of the Armenians?,” while
they were talking about the reaction of the world about the genocides that they
were planning to perpetrate.
Nazism was considered a legal and
respectable ideology at the beginning of the 1930s, and then the world saw how
dangerous Nazism was. Millions of people died because of Nazism, and today it
is illegal to support Nazism in any civilized country. You can never make
propaganda about Nazism legally. Today, Nazism is not considered as a genuine
thought alternative, and it is not included in the freedom of thought and
expression.
As I have detailed above, Islam
is against the human rights norms of our age, and it has more dangerous content
than Nazism. Islam is not a belief alternative, it is just a crime against
humanity, and any crime shouldn’t have freedom in our modern world. So, Islam
must be declared illegal all over the world, as is Nazism, because of its
vandal content and commands that are against human rights. All actions about
Islam must be forbidden and the propagandists of Islam must be judged because
of instigating to the crimes of murder, rape, grab and crimes against humanity.
Otherwise, the world will meet with a big tragedy when the Islamists will get
more power, as the world suffered because of Nazism.
A socialist Laz poet from Turkey,
Serkan Engin was born in 1975 in Izmit, Turkey. His poems have been published
in English in The Tower Journal, Poetry’z Own, Belleville Park Pages, Far
Enough East, Spilt Infinitive Lit Magazine, Empty Mirror, The Writer’s Drawer,
Poetry Super Highway, Miracle E-zine, Industry Night Lit Magazine, Open Road
Review, Shot Glass Journal, The Criterion and Mediterranean Poetry. Some of his
poems appeared in Japanese in the leading Japanese philosophy and poetry
journal Shi to Shisou.
