So you think you know God?

For most people there is only one answer for this question. A loud and emphatic YES! Usually spoken when clutching the idea of an ancient tome that has revealed all to them, a member of the chosen. They hold dear the idea that truth was delivered to them. Given to them above others. A claim often made before reading their book.

The god-concept has been with us since consciousness first awakened. Some moral-biologists believe that the concept was born of fear, when early man was for whatever reason first forced from the trees. In the day he was preyed upon by wild beasts he could see and flee from. In the dark night creatures who to him were unknown and acted with cruel unpredictability visited both his young and his old. As these poorly creatures huddled together in the unforgiving blackness of the ancient Savannah, they had only their imagination to provide the evidence of what unseen force was removing them forever. The early god was cruel and demanded sacrifice, almost as though he hungered for flesh. Only the rising sun offered salvation. It brought with it a mixture of relief and sorrow, early morning warmth brewed these two contradicting emotions together to form what I think were the first instances of guilt. A guilt that could not be satisfied by rational thought. Another coping mechanism was required. A mechanism that allowed the missing and the lost to feel the same sense of relief and salvation that the sun had brought their luckier brothers and sisters. The sun that brought daylight could not possibly forsake those those who had been taken in the night. This god was a kind and forgiving god.

As those of us who left the plains of Africa to find a new home in the Cradle of Civilisation our circumstances changed. We lost the connection to our original home. Those who stayed still have imaginings of the old gods, demonic masks still circle the night fires warding off the taker and calling upon the giver to return. Our new home in the desert brought changes to our circumstance, night was no longer the threat it once was. The unforgiving remover of souls was left behind when we travelled up the Nile. The terror of night was replaced with the kind coolness that brought reprieve from the now harsh sun, giving us the peace needed to explore both the wonders of the heavens and the wonders of our own bodies. As the night-beast and the fear of night faded in to memory we spent more and more time on these wonders. Simultaneously our interest in the universe around our us and our numbers -the numbers of brothers and sisters who now were no longer stolen in the night- began to expand. From within our new understanding of the mechanics of ourselves, our environments and our economies god rose again to meet our newest threat. The wicked symptom of our midnight explorations, over population.

We trialled -and erred- to find the solution to the pestilences, crimes, cruelty and suffering brought upon tribes whose fertility and knack for surviving superseded their means. We searched all that we knew to find this solution, we did not find it there. We would need to pluck the answer from the unknown. The unknown was once again labelled as god. We tried much of the unknown before the true unknown revealed itself. We tried to give the taker of old that which he no longer took. A son, a brother, a daughter, a sister each of us gave. But the taker no longer hungered for flesh as it once did and was not satisfied. We tried to build temples to raise us closer to the unknown we had seen in the heavens so that we may find the answer sooner. It did not work. The answer came from humbler tribes, paternal tribes whose women were subjects to the wills -and jealousies- of their husbands and fathers. These tribes who had reign over they're nightly explorations of self, who submitted themselves to the constraints of denial so that the property of they're chiefs -themselves- could remain pure and valuable. These tribes grew slower than others, these tribes allowed themselves more time to acquire the means to survive. As time passed these tribes prospered while others less humble suffered. The unknown had revealed itself. We had a new beast of the night to conquer. Constraint, law, rule came to be our salvation as the sun had done aeons before.

As we began to notice that true salvation came from the rule we imposed on ourselves, we looked to the temples built to be closer to god and the wise men within who promised to find in the unknown that which was to deliver us from the cruelty of over-burdened economies and shortage of sustenance. These fools who had worshipped the unknown, gazed into the heavens, named the constellations and searched for the nature of things. These fools who claimed they would find our salvation by taking themselves into the unknown and building themselves higher towards god. These fools who had failed and in so doing proved their own god false. 'Down with the temples!' came the cry. We took them our rules and told them here we, not you who claim to be wise, had found god and salvation. 'God is not there, god is not known and cannot be known' they claimed as they did. 'Look at our city, where we live long and eat well. God has given this to us, we know god. He is the law', our retort. 'God is not he. God is not law. God is not known and cannot be known', they blasphemed! 'Burn them and they're books which are not law! Down with the temples!', we cried. So by law -by God himself- their fate was decided. 'God cannot be seen, heard, felt, known or written', they mantra'd as we tied them stakes. 'Ha! God is writ here. In stone you old fools', we showed them our tablets. 'Blasphemers! Idolaters all!', they raved as they roasted. Us idolaters? Foolish old wise men, gripped by madness to the end.

So it was decided by us, the new wise men, that the law -God- was known and should be known by all. We found foolish wise men wherever we went, in Alexandria we burnt more of them and they're books. Savages, who still feared the night-beast, down south were taught the law we had found. We took it to Europe where we found sodomites, adulterers and whores. To India where we found idolaters who claimed too that God could not be known. Later the new world revealed others who had returned to the trees and gave to the night-beast that which he still hungered for. By star, crescent and cross we gave them our law. Written by God himself, who was both he and law. Without whom we would not know the way.

We have yet to shake from humanity the curse of those who claim to know God and see him written in this book or that. We have no hope until we rid ourselves of the dogma of knowing that which cannot be known that we hold so dear. The laws in these books do not represent innate natural knowledge -or knowledge of ones soul placed there by god as religion would have you believe- these are nurtured social behaviours passed down from generation to generation. They are messages from our ancestors transmitted through ourselves by means of social conditioning of how they once solved their big issues. Of how they pragmatically conditioned themselves for survival. We owe it to them to now do the same. By keeping those things that prolong our existence, discarding those which do not and inventing our own behaviour to suit our circumstances.

God can only continue to exist as the god-concept was first intended to be. A representation of the unknown, something to challenge, something to discover. So you think you know god? To any who claim YES! goes my cry 'Idolaters! Blasphemers all!'. I am biased towards you who claim to know god. The pursuit of truth inevitably leads to bias. If I pursue the truth of the shape and location of Earth and find it to be spheroidal and to be rotating around a star in the Milky Way, then I become biased -possibly even dismissive- against those who believe it to be flat and at the centre of the universe. Your god-concept is false, dangerous and stupid. I will mock it, fight it and hold it in contempt until it is relegated to harmless superstition. It is all of our duty to make religion dismissable.

Paranoiac Prophecy: The Roots of the Modern Islamic Movement

The belief that all that is good comes from God or Allah and the corollary that all that is evil is the work of Satan, are the perfect conditions in the primordial ooze of suspicion and paranoia that have for centuries given rise to some seriously inconsistent conspiracy theories. What is being spread throughout the Ummah via the teachings of some of Islam's most revered and renowned thinkers is an undiluted concoction of some of the West's most crackpot theories, bullshit and "wisdom" hijacked from the most recent Dan Brown novel. By listening to the lectures by Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi (1926 – 2003), Sheikh Imran Hosien (1942) and numerous others,  we can understand for ourselves how deluded Islamic understanding of the events of the past century is. As most religions tend to do, Islam has created evil malicious deceptive super-villains to be the source of all their woes. In this case not surprisingly it is represented by a secret conclave of New World Order Jewish Zionist conspirators -represented in real time by Israel and the USA. If you remember from previous versions of this conspiracy, Jews control the world by controlling all the world's most valuable resources. An obvious twist to this old conspiracy is that they have found likely Christian co-conspirators in the Knights Templar and (of course) the Illuminati -represented in real time by Britain and Western Europe.

According to some the most learned men the Muslim world has to offer, the plan for the destruction of Islam is as old as Islam itself. Apparently the Jahudi (Jews, USA, Freemasons) and the Christian (Europe, Knights Templar, Illuminati) infidels were able to, after centuries of failed attempts, finally devise a plan to destroy the Caliphate. 

Their plan was simple, first a Jewish agent would assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Thus sparking the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires to go to war against their long term ally, Serbia. Secondly, and most importantly, these sneaky Jews were aware that the Ottoman Empire (who was actually Britain's ally against imperialist Russia before the war) had signed the secret Ottoman-German Alliance. It was by this knowledge of a covert alliance that the Jews could be sure that the Ottomans would enter the war on the side of Germany. Thirdly this Zionist inspired movement had infiltrated Britain in the form of Lord Rothschild (and his De Beers wealth), where he managed to secure the signing of the Balfour declaration. Part of this last part is actually true, when Britain was running low on money to fund their military operations they turned to Rothschild who was a Secular Zionist and wanted to secure a Jewish homeland. Back to the bullshit, Rothschild then used his influence over his Jewish-American counterparts (who were obviously running the show State-side) to bring the USA in to the war on the side of the allies. Which was the perfect time for the USA to begin their plans of world domination and the establishment of a New World Order (insert evil laugh here). Now of course the USA entering the war had absolutely nothing to do with persistent unrestricted German U-Boat warfare against civilians, it was definitely Jewish manipulation. Then, for the sole purpose of destroying the Muslim Caliphate, Britain sent Lawrence of Arabia to infiltrate and deceive the honest god-fearing Muslims of the Middle-East. Lawrence was tasked with instilling within the Arabs the evil ambitions of nationalism, liberty, self-governance and democracy. He was wickedly successful and before you knew it Sharif Hussein -inspired of course by Jewish gold- had turned on his Caliph (Mehmed VI) and the Arab Revolt had begun. Ultimately the Ottoman Empire crumbled and Ataturk dismantled the Caliphate. According to Islamists all of the above was done to obtain Palestine for Jewish settlement, of course the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement was the work of Satan so that could be and was ignored. The final fell swoop of Judao-Anglo-American deception was the backing of Ibn Saud in his annexation of the Hejaz after Sharif Hussein declared himself Caliph. Ibn Saud ousted Hussein and established Saudi Arabia, where his family rules to this day.

Today this Sufi fable of betrayal and deceit is preached as gospel within Mosques throughout the world, breeding hatred and intolerance not just against non-Muslims but also between rival Islamic factions. The Al Sauds fund the spread of their version through Wahhabi propaganda, which is extremely anti-Israel and anti-revolutionary, to Western Mosques. While Iranian oil funds the rebel uprisings in Arab states, which are again anti-Israel and revolutionary. The difference between the two movements is revolution, the Wahhabis are happy with the current status quo whereby they control the Hejaz and the Iranians are not. The ultimate difference between the Wahhabi and Iranian propoganda is who gets to be Caliph once the Ummah have reinstated the Caliphate. Each punting their new vision for a reunion of the Islamic world in to a global superpower. Each one hoping to fill the Caliph shaped hole in the heart of every Muslim.

The WWI defeat of the Ottoman Empire saw the Khalifa's territories in the Middle East broken up by Britain and France (Sykes-Picot) into a collection of small sovereign states. Which we know today as Syria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and the western portion (containing Mecca and Medina) of Saudi Arabia. Civil unrest currently fill these countries and I am afraid to say that the coincidence of the uprisings in each of these countries is no coincidence at all. 

The return of the Khalifa is seen by the majority of Muslims (at least within Islamic states) as the only way to resolve all of their -and the world's- problems. A complete return to the fundamentals of their religion and outright blame squared on the evil infidels who lead them away from it. These are their cause, means and ends. 

The New Islamic Movement has continued to gain support in every Arab country, as well as within the ranks of leftist sympathisers in the Western nations it sees as it's greatest enemies. Change in the Arab world is necessary and has always been inevitable but it has been hijacked by the far Islamic right, whose religious propoganda is now starting to make a lot of sense to the man on the street as the only plausible cause for their long-suffered discomfort.