How can a group of people progress with a mental formation based on superstition, parroting, and blind obedience to religious figures or figures of backward nationalism-religion or religion-nationalism? Without even daring to discuss or oppose them, how can progress be made with constants, axioms, and sacred things in a world that knows nothing more than development and change, means of managing life that must remain as they are, and it is not permissible to touch them, change them, develop them, or doubt their validity or content… They are sacred!
All of this indicates that the mental entity of these peoples is deficient and disabled, and therefore, by virtue of its deficiency and disability, it resigns from practicing diligence, thinking, planning, criticism, and review. There is no review, correction, or evaluation when the men of religious nationalism or national religion dominate the scene, and there is no correction, review, or correction when people turn into parrots and beasts of burden led in a herd like sheep, which are directed and protected by what is called the guard dog in the direction that he wants and sees as appropriate.
Sometimes the tendencies of the watchdog do not align with those of the herd, which is instinctively inclined towards freedom in all its forms: freedom of belief, freedom of political and social orientation, and freedom to harmonize with pluralism and difference, For whoever negates others in pluralism negates himself, The watchdogs are united in suppressing the freedoms of the herd, They lean on each other when necessary, they fight when necessary, and they practice dissimulation when necessary—kissing mustaches while stabbing in the back. Their alliance is an old and current strategic one, each with his own state embraced by his sect, which supplies it with the required victims…that is, martyrs for the sake of heaven!
The mechanism of religious thought that practices corruption and hypocrisy is bribery and emotional manipulation. There is the chosen people of God, and there is the best nation, and there is the enticement with paradise and the intimidation with hell, and the description of man being roasted in the fire of hell… something that makes the hair on one’s back crawl, And the enticement with paradise, the houris, rivers of honey, boys, and the permanent hymen is shameful in its baseness and vulgarity, and laughable in the intensity of its pain, as if the people whose beards have been mocked and who have been transformed into different kinds of insects are standing before a clown playing a dramatic role. How deep will the psychological and moral depravity be when a person accepts a brothel offer consisting of a herd of houris, boys, and rivers of honey? In this life, you are allowed two, three, or four wives, and in the afterlife, there is no need to count or enumerate, Take as many women as you like! Even brothels and prostitution are sold to people as virtue!
Peoples who found refuge and happiness in destroying idols, barely finished destroying idols, before they began erecting new idols, their source being the flock of those whom God was pleased with and who pleased Him. And who said that the concept of idolatry has disappeared and died? It is alive and well in the way of thinking and disbelief and in dealing with history and the symbols of religion and its men.
They all condemn sectarianism, yet they all practice it. The religious discourse based on imposing homogeneity and the necessity of unification on earth as it is in heaven is the legitimate offspring of the poisons of sectarianism, which are spread by religious figures in society. A religious figure cannot be anything but sectarian, and an enemy of freedoms, social justice, and human rights. All of this is due to the nature of his mental, intellectual, and faith-based formation, The best nation does not accept the principle of equality, and the best nation does not appoint anyone from outside that good nation, nor does it appoint a woman from that rare nation. And because of the extreme justice of this nation, it imposed the immunity of the believer, who is not killed except by right and is not slaughtered except by right. And when was killing ever a right? It is said that the death penalty for apostasy was imposed on the Saudi teacher “Al-Suhaimi”, who praised Nizar Qabbani in front of some students, The charge that warranted the application of the apostasy rulings against him was his praise of love and its necessity for man, for every little thing mentioned in the pages of the six hundred-page book, except for the word “love”, so it is no wonder that Al-Suhaimi was considered an apostate!
They excel at talking about the infidels and polytheists and the necessity of exterminating them, then about Satan and the torment in Hellfire, then praising Paradise with its houris and the rocks that roll down on the head of the infidel in Hell. Here there is no danger or fear for the believers from committing immoral acts, for God Almighty will put their sins in the file of the sins of the Jews and Christians, because their sins on the Day of Reckoning are the sins of the Jews and Christians. This is justice in its religious concept. It is the alternative to equality. And is the believer equal to the infidel?
Everything is in the hands of the scholars and thinkers, in the hands of their sermons, or rather their threats and absolute commands, which reduce all alternatives to two: either Paradise or Hell, either the bliss of Paradise or the torment of the grave. The scholars and thinkers in this country differ from their counterparts in other countries. Here, they are not expected to make inventions, scientific discoveries, or devise social theories. The common discourse in these countries revolves around the agreement, consensus, or disagreement of scholars—not because of the discovery of a vaccine for the coronavirus, but because of issues like marrying a deceased wife, breastfeeding an adult, marrying an infant, congratulating Christians on their holidays, camel urine, or the miraculous nature of the Quran. These are the scholars of these countries, such as Mawdudi, Ibn Baz, Sistani, Zaghloul El-Naggar, and others, who have driven away chemists, physicists, poets, and philosophers. Nizar Qabbani fled, Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm escaped, Abu Zaid fled, and others were assassinated, like Farag Foda. As for Einstein… Newton, Edison, and others are heretics, may God protect us from them and their heresies!
How can a group of people progress with a mental formation based on superstition, parroting, and blind obedience to religious figures or figures of backward nationalism-religion or religion-nationalism? Without even daring to discuss or oppose them, how can progress be made with constants, axioms, and sacred things in a world that knows nothing more than development and change, means of managing life that must remain as they are, and it is not permissible to touch them, change them, develop them, or doubt their validity or content… They are sacred!