ISLAM AND LOGOS
E. MICHAEL JONES
Edited by John Beaumont
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
CHAPTER ONE: History of the Revolution
CHAPTER TWO: The Earlier History of Islam
CHAPTER THREE: Logos Evaporates
CHAPTER FOUR: Pope Benedict XVI and the Regensberg Speech
CHAPTER FIVE: What is Islam?
CHAPTER SIX: Faith and Reason
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Logos of Sex
CHAPTER EIGHT: “So is America the Great Satan?”
CHAPTER NINE: The Faust Myth
CHAPTER TEN: Foucault in Tehran
CHAPTER ELEVEN: “Daimonic Ideals”
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Mullahs in Mashad
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Philosophy of Salafism: The Islamic Image of Neo-Conservatism
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Uncanny Fulfillment
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: MEMRI
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Nuclear Deal Goes Through
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Islam as the Scourge of God
POSTSCRIPT: The Magi and the Apartheid Wall: The Author Explores Iran
About the Author
FOREWORD
Articles on Islam appear almost every day in the press. However, there is much ignorance regarding the exact nature of Islam. Many assume that the religion is one coherent body of doctrine and action. This is incorrect. There are many forms of Islam, including the obvious ones of Sunni and Shi’a. Even these two are vastly different in their approach to religious and social issues.
Over the last few years Dr. E. Michael Jones has done much research on the question of Islam, both from a historical perspective and also from the point of view of contemporary matters. This research has resulted in a number of detailed articles on a variety of specific topics. In the present short book the main parts of these are gathered together in order that the enquiring reader may gain an accurate picture of this whole subject.
The book begins with an introduction to the 1979 Iranian revolution, a key event. This is followed by a history of earlier Islam. Next comes a reference to the significance of the concept of Logos, a crucial matter in almost all of Dr. Jones’ writings. This is followed by an examination of what exactly is the nature of Islam in the light of this information regarding Logos. Then comes some detail on the approach of the Sunni and the Shi’a and that of Catholicism in respect of faith and reason, followed by a review of the differing approaches of Western and Islamic philosophy.
These more general issues having been analyzed, the book then embarks upon some specific issues. These comprise most importantly the following: the question of Logos and sex; the allegation that the United States is “the great Satan”; Foucault’s contribution to thought in respect of the Islamic revolution; and several other significant matters. Finally, some conclusions are put forward.
The above matters may be said to be the more formal part of the book. There then follows a postscript, which recounts one of the speaking tours made by Dr. Jones to Iran. This is more informal and gives a detailed account of the day to day issues that arise in that country, as mediated by Dr. Jones in his talks and discussions with many representatives of society there.
Once again Dr. Jones shows himself to be at the forefront of modern thinking on the question of the relationship between the Catholic Church and Islam and readers will be much enriched by his clear and logical analysis of the issues.
John Beaumont
Leeds, England
Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle
May 14th, 2016
CHAPTER ONE
History of the Revolution
On January 16, 1979, His Imperial Majesty Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the King of Kings, Light of the Aryans and Head of the Warriors, descended from the Peacock Throne, boarded a plane, and flew into exile. Two weeks later Ruhollah Khomeini, a 77-year-old religious scholar, flew from exile in Paris to Tehran, where he was greeted by millions of followers, and became the leader of the first modern Islamic revolution. The Ayatollah Khomeini came to power, not riding on a donkey, but almost as modestly, riding in the passenger seat of a Chevy pickup surrounded by a few million of his supporters, some of whom were sitting on the roof of the truck’s cab. What followed was the chaos and violence which accompanies any revolution, revenge killings aimed at the SAVAK, the secret police that had been trained to torture Iranians, the burning of that country’s cinemas in protest against the sexualization of the culture which the Rockefellers and the CIA had orchestrated to turn the Iranians into sexual robots and docile consumers (i.e., “Americans”), the hostage crisis, which got prolonged by George Bush and Ronald Reagan to defeat Jimmy Carter in the election of 1980, and enough footage to make a number of movies, the most recent being Argo, a gripping CIA propaganda film which obscures everything about the revolution that needs to be explained.
The miracle of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 is that it did not end up like all of the revolutions which accompanied the Arab Spring in 2011. By early 2013 Libya and Egypt had descended into chaos. The reason the Iranian Revolution didn’t is Imam Khomeini and Shi’a Islam, which honors Logos (or to give Arash Darya-Bandari’s translation of that Greek term, nezzam I tauhidi, the order of unicity) in a way that the Sunni Muslims and most certainly the Wahhabis and the Salafists do not. There is no separation of Church and State in the Shi’a version of Islam, but there is paradoxically among the fundamentalist Salafists, who, like the Wahhabis and the more radical Sunni sects, accepted the political hegemony of the caliphate.
Imam Khomeini was able to keep the Iranian Revolution under control because he was able to exercise both political and spiritual authority at a crucial moment in Iran’s history. If he had not been able to wield both swords, that of the emperor and the pope simultaneously, Iran would probably look a lot like what Egypt looks like today. Iran is the only country in the world which has conducted a successful counterrevolution against the American-Zionist Imperium and has lived to tell the tale. At a time when most Islamic revolutions seemed destined to go from oppression to anarchy in the wake of the Arab Spring, the Iranian Revolution still stands as an example of a people who successfully broke the yoke of Jewish-American cultural hegemony and then, in spite of the turbulence of the early years and the devastation wrought by the eight-year long war with Iraq, successfully rolled back the sexualized culture of the ’60s without succumbing to anarchy or a new form of dictatorship.
America’s Zionist-controlled government is hostile to Iran, not because it possesses or wants to possess nuclear weapons, but because it has taken control of its own culture in a way that the West still finds puzzling, dramatic, and, ultimately, an affront to everything the regime preaches, from sodomy to usury. This was probably the reasoning behind the 2012 release of Argo, the CIA propaganda film demonizing Iranians and lionizing Hollywood Jews. Argo is a perverse tribute to how unsettling the American elites continue to find this successful provincial uprising against their universal cultural hegemony. The message of Argo is what you would expect from the Masonic republic of America. Americans are deceivers. Ben Affleck moves blithely from one deception to another; he forges visas; he is involved in the production of a phony film, which is produced by Hollywood, America’s propaganda ministry. He teaches the hostages how to deceive their captors. He coaches everyone in deception, and because of this we are to recognize him as an American hero.
If one were under any illusions that the West had somehow mellowed in the rebellion against God’s order that was the essence of the Enlightenment, they would be dis
pelled by viewing A Royal Affair (2012). The film is seriously European but not artsy fartsy. It is a biopic about the life of Johan Struensee, the physician to King Christian IV, king of Denmark when the Enlightenment was raging in France, the continent’s most powerful country. By the time Struensee had become his physician, the king had gone mad from (in the film’s own words) excessive masturbation. Struensee exploited the situation to become in short order the queen’s lover (Struensee seduced the queen by giving her his contraband copies of Rousseau to read. The fish rots first at the head.) and de facto dictator of the Kingdom of Denmark. He then used his position as dictator to introduce the Enlightenment, in the form of freedom of the press and mandatory smallpox inoculation, to Denmark. What followed was heaven on earth — for a while at least — until the forces of evil, otherwise known as church and state, got their pay cut as part of government austerity measures. At that point the déclassé ruling class organized a counterrevolution and Struensee became the Enlightenment’s version of Jesus Christ by shedding his blood for the people who rejected him in the name of hatred of all religion and — you’re probably expecting this by now — freedom.
The Iranian Revolution, we are told by Wikipedia:
was unusual for the surprise it created throughout the world: it lacked many of the customary causes of revolution (defeat at war, a financial crisis, peasant rebellion or disgruntled military), produced profound change at great speed, was massively popular, and replaced a westernising monarchy with a theocracy based on Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists (or velayat-e faqih). Its outcome — an Islamic Republic “under the guidance of an extraordinary religious scholar from Qom” — was, as one scholar put it, “clearly an occurrence that had to be explained.”
The movie Argo is an indication that Americans are still trying to explain what happened. They found the Iranian Revolution of 1979 puzzling for a number of reasons. In fact, they are still puzzled by it. Islamic revolutions are still with us, and they still need to be explained to an American public that has distinctly impoverished categories when it comes to understanding anything that transcends the sophistication of nightly news broadcasts.
One of the most puzzling aspects of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was that Americans were held responsible for the actions of a man whose name most Americans could hardly pronounce. The Shah was hated because he was the representative of America, which we were told was the Great Satan. After decades of incomprehension, America’s propaganda ministry finally came up with an explanation of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and its sequelae when it floated the phrase “they hate us for our freedoms.”
Americans found events like the Iranian Revolution puzzling because the terms “freedom” and “revolution” were co-opted a decade earlier when the New York Times put Wilhelm Reich on the cover of its Sunday magazine and resurrected his phrase, “sexual revolution,” as the explanation of what had happened in the ’60s. If what happened in the ’60s was the “sexual revolution” leading to “freedom,” then what happened in Iran in 1979 was clearly something else. It was a counterrevolution. In fact, it was a sexual counterrevolution.
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was in reality part of the sexual counterrevolution that was sweeping the world at that time. Ronald Reagan was part of that counterrevolution in America. Jimmy Carter’s support for the Shah, as well as his inept handling of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis, helped put Ronald Reagan in office, but the main reason Reagan won the election was the votes of the so-called “Reagan Democrats,” i.e., the Catholics who had finally found a candidate who was willing to oppose the infamous 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. If Catholics needed further proof of the counterrevolutionary nature of the Reagan presidency, they could point to Reagan’s alliance with Pope John Paul II to bring down atheistic Communism.
The Republican Party betrayed this counterrevolution when it aligned itself with the Jewish Neoconservatives who led America into the military campaign against Islam in the Middle East that began with the 9/11 attacks and subsequently had Iran in its sights, but that doesn’t change the fact that Reagan won the election of 1980 as a conservative sexual counterrevolutionary who was the tacit ally of the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose hostage crisis helped put him in office.
The idea that the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was the Iranian version of the global sexual counterrevolution explains an event that Americans found particularly puzzling, namely, the spectacle of Iranians burning down their own movie theaters and birth control clinics. During the 1970s, Iranians were subjected to a film- and TV-based barrage of sexual imagery, whose main purpose was the pacification and demoralization of the country. The commercials of the ’70s can be viewed on the internet. They are crude and tame in comparison with the pornography and sophisticated ads which are now common, but their intention is clear. Playing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole lotta love” as background music for a clip advertising an ice-skating rink makes no sense (Wouldn’t the “Skaters’ Waltz” have been more appropriate?), unless we see the entire package (including crotch shots of female ice skaters) as part of the Shah/CIA attempt to turn the Iranians into sexual robots and docile consumers.
Hollywood is the propaganda ministry for the Zionist-American Imperium. Hollywood achieves its hegemonic goals by way of moral corruption. That is the gist of my more than thirty years of research into the use of sexual liberation as political control, and the development of that argument can be found in extenso in my book Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control (2000). The Iranians were guinea pigs in the same experiment in social engineering that destroyed Catholic political power in the United States in the aftermath of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
When Iranians recognized that sexual liberation was a form of political control, they burned down their own movie theaters. Fifty years earlier, Catholics reacted to Hollywood’s sexualization of American culture with boycotts. Instead of burning their movie theaters down, American Catholics boycotted them under the leadership of Philadelphia’s Cardinal Dougherty and the Legion of Decency.
After meeting with Hollywood moguls during the height of the boycott in 1934, Joseph Breen claimed that Harry Warner, head of Warner Brothers studios, was “crying tears as big as horse turds” because his theaters were losing $100,000 a week in Philadelphia alone. Eventually Breen became head of the first Hollywood Production Code, which allowed Catholics to keep nudity, obscenity and blasphemy off of America’s movie screens.
Even if the realizations occurred decades apart, American Catholics and Iranian Muslims came to the same conclusion: film was an integral part of the sexual revolution. The purpose of sexual liberation was the destruction of the nation’s moral fiber as a prelude to sophisticated totalitarian control. The Jewish psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich was the architect of sexual liberation as political control because he explained the importance of “mass situations” in undermining morality and therefore the social order. Film became a tool of sexual liberation because Hollywood was and still is controlled by Jews.
The Jewish revolutionaries have never lost their penchant for producing pornography and using it as a form of political control. When the Israeli military rolled into Ramallah in the West Bank on March 30, 2002, one of the first things they did was take over Palestinian TV stations. This is what conquering armies do. But when the conquering army is Jewish, something more telling and unusual follows. Shortly after occupying the Al-Watan TV station, the Israeli forces began broadcasting pornography over its transmitter. One 52-year-old Palestinian mother of three children, according to one report, complained about “the deliberate psychological damage caused by these broadcasts.” The only Palestinian station not taken over by the Israelis ran a written message at the bottom of its screen claiming that “Anything currently shown on Al-Watan and other local TV channels has nothing to do with Palestinian programs but is being broadcast by the Israeli occupation forces. We urge parents to take precautions.”
The Marquis de Sade, another architect of sexual liberation as political control, made it perfectly clear that sexual liberation leads to violence and eventually murder. The French Revolution, which the Marquis de Sade started from his cell in the Bastille, was proof of that. The Ayatollah Khomeini was able to focus this violence on the Great Satan that was inciting it and create a successful counterrevolution against it.
The Republican Party betrayed its own counterrevolution, and as a result the violence which sexual liberation naturally creates continues unabated in the form of seemingly random mass killings of the sort that we witnessed in Colorado and Connecticut and other places too numerous to mention. The Aurora, Colorado killer James Holmes, like most males of his generation, frequented adult web sites. After providing his sexual profile to one of them, he was “shot down” by three women he tried to solicit for sex. The random acts of violence that occur in America with depressing regularity are manifestations of the sexual counterrevolution which the Republican Party exploited for political purposes and then strangled in its cradle in favor of Neoconservative-inspired wars for Israel in the Middle East. These attacks will continue until Americans wrest control of their culture from the forces which have been using pornography to enslave them because, as the Marquis de Sade could have explained very well, the same forces that render the majority docile, turn an equally predictable minority into violent killers.
CHAPTER TWO
The Earlier History of Islam
Unlike Christianity, whose seminal texts were written in Greek and, therefore, within the orbit of Greek philosophy, Islam arose in an intellectual backwater in the middle of the largely polytheistic Arabian Peninsula, with a sacred scripture written in a language that lacked a firm foundation in Logos. It then spread like wild-fire through regions of Christendom weakened by Christian heresies. Muhammad began preaching monotheism to the citizens of Mecca around 610 A.D. Forty years later Muslims ruled Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. Over the next century, Islam became the religion of everyone from the western borders of China to the Pyrenees, and as part of the consolidation of its conquests, it came into contact with Greek thought.
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