Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
The hatred of Allah for others and for humans in general, is a signal feature of Islamic and Moslem culture. Cult hatred of the 'other', and indeed its disdain of the human, never can be rationalized, nor justified. The problem in today's world, is that too many people demand that Islam is a religion. Religions don't hate the human and do not insist on destroying the other. Islam has always been a bronze-age cult, whose ethos one finds in the code of Hammurabi, or in neo-Babylonian celestial rites and worship.
Only 20% of Sura 76 is hate-speech. This is a below-average amount for a Koranic chapter. Sura 76 or 'Time' deals mostly with the misery of being human and the need to obey only the Allah-thing, the Lord or ilah of Mecca, who was of course Hub'Al the moon deity during the early life of Muhammad. In Muhammad's feverish, demented psychology, the Hub'Al idol becomes the only god.
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Verily, We have created man from Nutfah drops of mixed semen (discharge of man and woman), in order to try him, so We made him hearer, seer. |
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Verily, We showed him the way, whether he be grateful or ungrateful. |
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Verily, We have prepared for the disbelievers iron chains, iron collars, and a blazing Fire. |
The above verses lack science, morality and tolerance. Drops of mixed human discharge do not create humans. 'We' is never defined in the Koran but most likely means Muhammad and Allah – thus giving us more proof that in his mind at least, Muhammad is a 'god'. Iron collars and a blazing fire are what the Infidels will experience. There is no Golden Rule in the Koran whatsoever anywhere. It is 'us', the good pious prostrated Moslem, against 'them', the evil, greedy, criminal non-Moslem.
The illogical militancy of Islam is obvious but opaque as well. Moslems and the Koran never say why the Jews, Christians and Pagans will be destroyed. Only that they must be, since they rejected the prophecy of Muhammad and his 'Qur'an', supposedly the uncreated work of a divine force, represented by the male moon deity of Mecca Al-Lah. The Koran is simple. Moslems who support the Muhammadan cult by fighting, 'striving', giving alms to poor Moslems, and helping the Moslem community while being piously prostrated to Al-Lah, win. The rest of humanity is doomed. This seems to be a very strange definition of a 'religion'. Intolerance, irrationality, slavery, ignorance and no free-will are usually hallmarks of cults.
The human's only goal according to this Sura 'Time' is to be a good slave of Allah:
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Verily, the Abrar (pious, who fear Allah and avoid evil), shall drink a cup (of wine) mixed with water from a spring in Paradise called Kafur. |
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A spring wherefrom the slaves of Allah will drink, causing it to gush forth abundantly. |
The slaves of Allah will drink water from paradise, as long as they are pious enough, and fear Allah enough. Allah is a force of vengeance, hate, coercion, intolerance and oppression. He or it, is not an enlightened, ennobling, kind, caring, or benevolent dialectical creation. He is akin to the Bronze-age idols of Sumeria and Babylonia. Unknowable, capricious, omnipotent and bloody.
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"Verily, We fear from our Lord a Day, hard and distressful, that will make the faces look horrible (from extreme dislikeness to it)." |
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So Allah saved them from the evil of that Day, and gave them Nadratan (a light of beauty) and joy. |
On the day of judgement, only those who prostrated themselves, and propitiated the Allah-idol will enter heaven. All others will have black faces and be tortured in hell-fire. This manichean simplicity is a telling sign that we have a cult not a religion; and a theocracy out of the bronze-age era; not a religion from and for the modern world.