Mamdouh Bitar, Ma Bitar:

      Not only is man subjugated in the brothels of detention centers and prisons, but, what is even more hideous, his mind is imprisoned, and thus he is transformed into a supernatural, helpless, limited, and incapable of confronting life’s problems with a scientific, methodical, and objective mentality. Here, man is transformed from a leader to a follower, and instead of being active, he becomes passive. Instead of being served, he is transformed into a servant of the sacred and of faith, which has destroyed his mind. It seems as if this is what is required by tyranny, which does not like rebellion and tends to impose submission and obedience. “O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you” (An-Nisa’).

Tyranny succeeded temporarily, so the last fourteen centuries did not witness any popular revolution. The dispute over the person absorbed all the oppositional, rebellious, and revolutionary capabilities of the person with a disabled mind. The healthy mind is revolutionary by nature and instinct, and is inclined towards development and renewal and rejects stagnation and resignation.

The mind became infected with the germ of faith, and the result was paralysis of the mind, and thus its qualification for fanaticism, which the   mind rejects. They denied him freedom, and thus they strangled man and hindered his transformation into a free, positive, creative person, that is, he transformed into a negative, superstitious, passive person. Man’s survival in this form, or his transformation into this form, was due to many influences, including and most importantly the influence of religion and the clergy, who struck at the social   and practiced camouflage through patchwork and dissimulation. They suppressed thought and freedom of opinion and assassinated criticism with arguments that only served the interests of tyranny. The clergy are the founders of man’s regression to a state of fatalism, dependence, subservience and surrender to the tyrant. They are the basis of stagnation and backwardness, for tyranny is primarily religious, and religious concepts are the womb from which the concepts of political tyranny are born, which transforms man, in partnership with the religious origin of tyranny, into an alienated, oppressed and helpless person.

Religious discourse markets itself as possessing the absolute truth, which means superiority and thus belittling and despising others. When this discourse becomes dominant, it does not limit itself to belittling others, but rather develops into excommunication, which automatically leads to disputes, wars, and bloodshed. The monopoly is not limited to the truth, but includes the means of knowledge production, such as science and the issue of the flat earth, etc. This inevitably leads to prohibition, confiscation, and exclusion, which have become characteristics deeply rooted in the soul. In this region, there is no criticism without accusing it of hatred and demanding its prohibition, deletion, and exclusion with vague arguments such as hatred of religion and contempt for a million and a half believers. If we assume, for the sake of argument, that some are spiteful and hateful, isn’t it their duty to ask themselves, why do others hate and despise them and despise their beliefs? Isn’t it possible for the answer here to help them better understand the problem, and then develop themselves in a way that doesn’t allow for hatred and despising them? And contempt for their faith.

The muslim Brotherhood has confused the understanding of man, his will and his goals. The oppressed and miserable man searches for a refuge for salvation, and some find this refuge in religious orientations, which desire and terrorize him and in many cases force him to surrender, freeze him and steal his thought, will and mind and provide him with certain intellectual patterns, for example the pattern of backwardness and its relationship to women going out without a veil, the pattern of justifying backwardness by distancing oneself from religion, the pattern of justifying conquests because Le Bon said that the Arabs are among the most merciful conquerors, the pattern of denying the extermination of others, they did not exterminate Banu Qurayza but God exterminated Banu Qurayza, and they did not try to exterminate those they call the People of the Covenant, because if they wanted to exterminate them, no one of the People of the Covenant would have remained, then the pattern of trying to prove something with a verse that represents the absolute truth, which proves its correctness by being a verse, the proof of the truth of what God said in His precious book is what Allah said in his precious book, that is, a witness from his people testified, the stereotypical parrot-like repetition of phrases that confirm to the human being dozens of times daily that he does not have the will and ability and is afflicted with dependency, God willing!, This is from my Lord’s blessings!, On God is reliance!, Fate and destiny! The child is born and his sustenance is with him… etc., all of that dwarfs the human being by canceling his will, initiative and responsibility, who turns into an obedient and submissive toy in the hands of the clergy, who cancel the possibility of the human being expressing himself and even prevent him from asking. Didn’t it say “  Do not ask about things which, if made clear to you, would distress you?” (Al-Ma’idah), wait for the answer from the verses that Gabriel will bring! Man is commanded and must carry out orders, especially the orders of those in  authority. Man is an ascetic in this world, which he aspires to leave as soon as possible, as a martyr or a mujahid. One must imagine the promises that are showered upon those promised Paradise, and how they are surrounded by a wall of enticement and intimidation, such that they are given no escape except rarely!

  In this case, the human need for salvation is exploited, which saves him from the oppression and misery that has befallen him. Salvation comes through oppression to a greater degree, even by assassinating and killing the human being after blackmailing him with a preamble of intimidation and enticement and other things such as loyalty and disavowal and asceticism in this world and then the benefits of jihad and death, which allows him to move on to the certain fabrication of the eternal afterlife with luxury and pleasure and flocks of women and boys and then rivers of alcohol. We are amazed at the transformation of what is forbidden on earth into what is permissible in heaven and vice versa, and how can a person accept this trick? They were told not to ask…

  The cage that man is placed in is not tightly closed, so some people are able to actually escape, and whoever is able to escape is turned by those in power into an infidel, a traitor, or an extremist enemy of them, of what they preach, and of their methods of subjugating and humiliating man. We do not bear a grudge against the Brotherhood because we do not envy them, but we reject them because they serve death and are hostile to life!