RELIGIONS OF ENVY

To The Point ^ | April 10, 2003 | Jack Wheeler

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There is a Djinn, an evil genie, inhabiting the Arab soul. Its Arabic name is al-Hasad, the Demon of Envy.

For Moslems, envy is haram, behavior explicitly prohibited by the Prophet Mohammed himself. In Sura (chapter) An-Nisa' 4:32 of the Koran, Allah through Mohammed says: "Envy not one another." A Hadith or saying of Mohammed admonishes Moslems to: "Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood." In another, Mohammed warns that no Moslem may go to Paradise after death unless "his heart be free of envy."

Three and a-half years ago (October 1999), I wrote a column entitled "The Impotence of Islam." I explained that all three of the great pathologies of modern times are Religions of Envy:

Marxism is fueled by class-based envy towards 'the rich exploitative bourgeois'

Nazism fueled by race-based envy towards 'the rich exploitative Jews'

Moslem terrorism is fueled by a culture-based envy towards 'the rich exploitative West.'

Islam has tragically become a religious dead-end, ruined by the great social poison of the 20th century, envy.

And what is the source of envy? Impotence. The hatred of the success of others due to the conviction that you are not capable and competent enough to similarly succeed, so your goal becomes to destroy that which you cannot achieve for yourself.

Further:

Envy is always directed most strongly at those who most clearly demonstrate one's impotence by their success, such as one's neighbors or closest competitors.

Arabs and Jews, for example, claim the same individual as their ancestor: one son of Abraham, Isaac, fathered the Jews, while another son, Ishmael, fathered the Arabs.

One tribe stays put, the other goes out into the world and comes back as economically, culturally, scientifically accomplished as any tribe in history -- and proceeds to create a new country, Israel, flaunting all their achievements right in the Arabs' face. This has driven Arabs enviously -- and masochistically -- insane.

For it is masochism that is the definitive characteristic of envy. Envy is not simply hatred of someone for having something you don't -- it is the willingness to destroy yourself as the price for destroying those of whom you are envious. The realm of envious insanity goes far beyond ordinary criminal insanity, and into a region of true and monstrous evil.

It is al-Hasad, envy, which is the source of the bottomless, suicidal-bomber hatred Palestinians have for the Jews, and that Arab and Moslem terrorists have for America and the West. Until the Djinn of al-Hasad, the Demon of Envy, departs from Arab souls, there can be no peace between Palestinians and Jews, and between Moslems and America.

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Islam may be a religion but as found in most Arab countries, it is a political ideology used to control the masses.

That is why freedom of religion works in the US and other countries. Here you choose your faith and your ideologies. The government gives God the right to punish sins and the establishment punishes crimes.

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