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World will be much Safer in the Hands of Atheists than Islamists By Dr Javed Jamil International Centre for Applied Islamics, India
Dear Mr Hassan, Assalmalaikum Your remark that the world will be much safer in the hands of atheists than Islamists is baseless and unfounded. The fact that followers of almost all the big religions have engaged in wars and other forms of extreme violence, either for justifiable or unjustifiable reasons, often not in conformity with the highest teachings of their respective religions, has often been used by atheists as a stick to beat religion. But the truth is that atheists of various kinds have indulged even in more cruel pogroms and wars. Mao’s China witnessed killing of millions of people. In the Communist Russia, the story has been no different. Millions of men, women and children lost their lives in the short history of Soviet Union. In the Second World War, China and Russia lost more than 20 million people. Russia invaded Afghanistan and more than half a million Afghans lost their lives in the resistance movement against the Soviet army. Russia’s war against Chechen rebels too has resulted in the death of more than one hundred thousands of people. Even the violence caused by many Christian countries like America and Britain in the Twentieth Century may be attributed to atheism, because many of the rulers though born in Christian families have had atheistic inclinations. In fact the international violence increased with the rise of the atheistic secularism. Most of the more than 240 million deaths in the twentieth Century may be attributed to the rise of atheistic ideologies of Secularism and Economic Fundamentalism including Capitalism and Socialism. British secularists entered Australia, killed hundreds of thousands of aborigines there and occupied their country forever. "Report details crimes against Aborigines" by Brett Stone, 7 September 1999, describes gory details of the extermination of aborigines. It says: "The genocidal practices perpetrated against Australian Aborigines were the outcome of policies adopted and implemented by all Australian governments from British settlement in 1788 until the present…..Aborigines were forced out of their traditional homes, hunted like wild animals, poisoned or shot, and confined to the harshest and most desolate climes. The effect of British settlement upon these people led to near extinction within 120 years….Even though no official figures exist, estimates of the Aboriginal population in 1788 range between 250,000 and 750,000. By 1911 the number was 31,000…..….Aboriginal children were abducted for use in forced labour, women were raped and tortured and given poisoned flour, and the men were shot…Between 1829 and 1834, an appointed conciliator, George Robinson, collected the surviving remnants: 123 people whom were then settled on Flinders Island. By 1835, between 3,000 and 4,000 Aborigines were dead….Between 1824 and 1908 approximately 10,000 Aborigines were murdered in the Colony of Queensland. "Considered ‘wild animals', ‘vermin', ‘scarcely human', ‘hideous to humanity', ‘loathsome' and a ‘nuisance', they were fair game for white ‘sportsmen'….…Aboriginal people met him (Archibald Meston) "like hunted wild beasts, having lived for years in a state of absolute terror". His prescription for their salvation lay in "strict and absolute isolation from all whites, from predators who, in no particular order, wanted to kill them, take their women, sell them grog or opium". Needless to say, none of the perpetrators of the slaughter were made to answer for their actions." Similarly brutal atrocities were reserved for native Americans who were killed in thousands by Europeans and their country permanently occupied. A website, Ken Hope's Home Page says, "…De Soto is described by a contemporary as "fond of the sport of killing Indians." Natives are captured in the hundreds and forced to march in chains, carrying stores. He kidnaps a native chief known as Queen Cofitachequi, and plunders a case of worthless mussel pearls from her. …By now, epidemics brought by Europeans have killed almost half of the native population of Mexico. According to historians (See From Revolution to Reconstruction on Net), in 1600 AD, there were about 40 million people living in the Western Hemisphere that now forms North America. In the region that forms the US now, estimates say that up to 18 million native Indians lived. Majority of them was killed either in numerous wars and skirmishes with Europeans or through Chicken Pox and other epidemics brought by them." If we study the wars and civil wars in the last 159 years, we find more than half od the total number of people killed by the atheists/secularists. Wars in last 150 years 1860-65:
American civil war (360,000) Aparet from the wars, the rise of Secular agenda in the world at the behest of the forces of efundamentalism has led to widespread chaos in the family and social level. It has led to the development of a strange kind of world, which appears to be paradise from outside, but as one enters it, one finds nothing but hell. We are living in a world where, thanks to the designs of merchants, immorality reigns. Where it is easier to be bad than good. Where wearing a scarf is banned and baring the body is promoted. Where being a wife or husband is outdated and being a bed partner is smartness. Where piety is ridiculed and impudence glorified. Where prosperity is considered to be the synonym of peace, education that of knowledge and entertainment that of happiness. Where condoms are presented as wonderful little bags possessing everything required for a wholesome life. We are living in a world where children are aborted in the name of women’s rights. Where, murderers and rapists are protected in the name of ‘right to life’. Where, criminals are given all amenities of life in the name of human rights. Where, sexual perverts receive all kinds of sympathy and attention. Where those talking of righteousness in life are condemned as "bloody moralists". Where, the media do everything to change the choices of the people, but if some reformer tries to warn them against evils, he is dubbed as a retrogressive, who has no business to teach lessons of good behaviour to the people. Alcohol, smoking, gambling and unrestrained-sex are considered to be the biggest symbols of liberty, brothels, beaches, bars and casinos the citadels of "freedom". One third of the total population of the world smokes, millions of people take drugs, millions drink and gamble and a sizeable percentage indulges in all forms of unhealthy sexual behaviour, including promiscuity, homosexuality, purchased sex, etc. In short, we are inhabitants of a world where the biggest virtue is to openly indulge in the biggest sin; and the biggest sin is to try to exhibit virtuousness. The globe of New World Order is therefore rapidly developing into nothing but a fireball of chaos. It is hardly surprising then that · More than 1 million people are murdered every year. (More than 240 million people lost lives in wars in the last century) · More than 2 million people commit suicides · More than 5 million people die of sex related diseases (more than 20 million have died of AIDS in recent years) · More than 2.2 million die of alcohol related problems · More than 5 million die of smoking related problems · More than 70 million children are not allowed to take birth and are aborted. The deaths due to poverty and unhygienic conditions are also there, but for these, it is ignorance, not knowledge that is to be blamed. They occur in the poor and undeveloped areas and are not the result of the designs of human minds, though the people of the area particularly the leadership has to share the blame. The above-given are however the figures related to damages consequent upon the deliberate acceptance of certain concepts of individual freedom and the deliberate promotion of a legal, social and economic system that supports the interests of the economic fundamentalists. Apart from death, other diseases, addictions, family disintegration, exploitation of men, women and children are other dangerous consequences of economic fundamentalism in the developed regions of the world. So * More than a hundred million suffer from alcohol related illnesses * More than 2000 millions smoke · Hundreds of millions indulge in gambling. 500 million are now using Internet alone for gambling. (In US alone, 20 millions show some signs of gambling addiction and 2 million divorces had gambling as a significant factor.) · More than 100 million suffer from sex transmitted diseases (42 million from HIV/AIDS) · Tens of millions of women are in prostitution and other sex related businesses (more than one million Americans alone have served as prostitutes) · More than 1.2 million of children are exploited annually in prostitution and other sex trades · More than 800 million watch pornography · Millions of homes are broken every year · Millions of women are raped every year; in many Western countries one tenth to half of all women have been raped (The total number of women who have been raped at least once is in hundreds of millions) · Sexual abuse of children is on the rise all over the world; in many Western countries up to one third of all people have been sexually abused in their childhood · Drug addiction is also persistent; tens of millions of people are addicted of harmful drugs · Civil wars, wars and riots for various reasons are also not showing any remarkable decline, consuming thousands of lives every year · Economic disparity between different countries and people of the world and among the people of the same countries is continuously growing; poverty may be on the decline but relative poverty is showing steep rise. I hope that Islam-bashing by the Atheists does not go unchallenged. And the best way to defend is often the counterattack. Dr Javed Jamil International Centre for Applied Islamics
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