Science, knowledge, and culture create the free human being, Dictatorship restricts the breathing of freedom, while ignorance stifles and kills freedom and cultivates the seeds of continuous and increasing backwardness, at least relatively, Among the subjects taught in parrot-based memorization schools and in primary, intermediate, and secondary schools is the subject of ignorance, which translates in reality what is called jihad and martyrdom, To combat ignorance, this education must be sterilized and purified, Therefore, it is necessary to delete the subject of religious education and focus on social studies, human rights, and philosophy, which do not exist in the schools of some Arab countries, which prohibit the teaching of philosophy.
The people of this region do not need much effort to realize the state of cognitive deficiency they suffer from, to a degree very close to cultural deprivation, This deficiency is not due to congenital reasons, but rather to outdated educational strategies and policies that have been overtaken by time, Those who were helped by financial circumstances and luck to learn and become educated in private schools cannot teach or work with what they learned, Therefore, they migrate to countries and societies that respect science, education, and human rights, because education is a human right according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
The world’s experiences have proven the importance of teaching human rights concepts, which are always subject to renewal and development, This, in its origin, development, and nature, negates the existence of fixed concepts like permissible and forbidden, which perpetuate the mental stagnation that kills the mind—that is, the killing of the mind at the hands of fixed sanctities, The killing of the mind threatens humanity, because humanity is primarily a mind, The mind is “skeptical” by nature, that is, skeptical of everything, primarily skeptical of the unseen religion,When God does not allow the mind to doubt, Ibn Rushd, Descartes, and the average person rise up and ask Him: Why did the Almighty create the mind? What tasks is this mind supposed to accomplish? Is the mind only for memorization? And if it is only for memorization, then what is the meaning of development, progress, and renewal?
The mind is not only for memorizing and preserving the old, but also for creating new life mechanisms, The mind also works in the field of historical comparisons and poses questions, such as the situation of man under monotheism, which is inherently opposed to idolatry and polytheism, which translates the plurality of people and their natural differences, The skeptical mind concludes from that approach that polytheism is superior to monotheism in its ability to serve humanity,Did the monotheism of Ibn Abdullah serve humanity as the Babylonian and ancient Egyptian civilizations did, which are officially considered by historians to be “civilizations,” while the conquests of Ibn Abdullah are not considered a civilization, and the principle of the fifth of the spoils has no relation to civilization, but rather to the culture of the legend of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and then the culture of the greatest thief, Omar, with his covenant attributed to him under the name of the Covenant of Omar.
The human mind questions the relationship between the promise of paradise and the threat of hellfire, considering the number of those who committed suicide to reach the paradise of heaven, and the number of those who lived incomplete lives under the threat of hell, burning, and the regeneration of their skin to intensify their torment, only to be then offered a fabricated visa to paradise, where dozens of virgins await them, Was the promise of paradise a foolish response to the narcissism of the tortured, impoverished, and starved human being, thus reinforcing their anxiety and fear, and raising the level of the reward they expect in paradise to the point of immortality in the cauldron of pleasure with virgins, drinking wine, and obtaining everything they desire, provided they accept the negatives on earth, such as practicing obedience and submission to those in authority and everything stipulated by religious law, in order to accept death for the promised eternity in paradise? Is there a single eyewitness to prove the reality of this bargain? The suicide, belonging to the culture of earthly death and the culture of heavenly eternity, is a desperate, depressed creature, incapable of giving their earthly life “meaning” and importance, Therefore, they unconsciously cover up their inadequacy, By giving it meaning after death, that is, he makes up for what he missed of the pleasures of life on earth with heavenly promises, In addition, it can be said that this creature is crushed by considering himself guilty, that is, the hypothetical sins of man haunt him even in his wounded childhood.
The wounds are due to sexual repression, the glorification of the culture of death through martyrdom, and the promotion of the benefits of martyrdom,The benefits of martyrdom are promoted in many fields, such as media, education, Friday sermons, fatwas, or by holding others responsible for the misery of some on earth, Holding others responsible is coupled with providing justifications for these accusations, such as the justification of disbelief and considering whoever does not fight disbelief as a disbeliever, i.e., a sinner, All of this has led these oppressed people, due to their beliefs and ideas, to the death instinct prevailing over the life instinct in them.
Those who study the experiences of other peoples generally find encouragement and dedication to critical thinking, which presents every religious and secular claim before the court of reason to question the legitimacy of this claim and the rationality of importing those claims from dubious sources such as religious sources, which claim to preach the illusion of absolute truth, knowing that there is no absolute truth in the religious sense of this term. Truth is part of another truth that always exists in the process of discovery without ever reaching the end of this discovery.
Modern culture has freed man from medieval jurisprudence and religious obstacles that shackled the minds of young men and women with the constraints of mysticism, and has dried up to an acceptable extent the springs of fanaticism, i.e., the fear of difference and therefore terrorism, not only the terrorism of infidels, but also the terrorism of women, the terrorism of modernity, the terrorism of difference, etc.
Repetition and insistence have instilled superstitious concepts in the minds of some, including the belief that they will not experience the horrors of the grave, nor will they wait for the Day of Judgment to enter Paradise, They believe that the believer’s fate in Paradise is inevitable, regardless of their actions, even if they commit adultery and theft, while the fate of the dissenter is Hell, regardless of their deeds, even if they are righteous and truthful, This conviction is sufficient to foster a false sense of superiority through the belief that the Creator is pleasing to the believers, It is no wonder, then, that the concept of “the best nation” was born, a concept that has greatly harmed that nation by transforming religion into a biased and subjective given, In short, the catastrophe can be summarized by saying that any human group that deviates from reason is dominated by tradition, which is irrationality, Therefore, it can be said that the peoples of the region live in irrationality!
Science, knowledge, and culture create the free human being, Dictatorship restricts the breathing of freedom, while ignorance stifles and kills freedom and cultivates the seeds of continuous and increasing backwardness, at least relatively, Among the subjects taught in parrot-based memorization schools and in primary, intermediate, and secondary schools is the subject of ignorance, which translates in reality what is called jihad and martyrdom, To combat ignorance, this education must be sterilized and purified, Therefore, it is necessary to delete the subject of religious education and focus on social studies, human rights, and philosophy, which do not exist in the schools of some Arab countries, which prohibit the teaching of philosophy.