Islam’s Golden Rule

Islam’s Golden Rule
An Engagement Chronicle

by: Gary H. Johnson, Jr.

On June 29th, 2009, Bill Warner, the Director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, released an article concerning the “Official Islam”.   His reference to the “Big Lie” of Mein Kampf was not the first time I had read this reference by the intellectual vanguard of Western liberty.  Ali Sina’s work at Faith Freedom International and his powerful 2008 release “Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allah’s Prophet” have pulled on this kernal of Hitlerian prison rot to demonstrate the parallels between the tyranny of the Nazis and the totality of Shariah Law and the Clerical Establishment driving Political Islam, today.  In essence, there is great truth in the recognition of Muhammad’s Sunna-driven brand of jihad as a big lie.  However, if we be true to our hearts and our reason, we, as Americans, must come at last to admit that the truth in this reckoning has nothing whatsoever to do with Political Islam and everything to do with the Muslim Ethos.  

In full, the Study of Political Islam is a doorway to understanding the ideology of the Muslim “Faith”…it is not the ideology, itself…and it is not the only doorway.  One cannot look solely to the statistical analysis of jihad within the Sira, the Hadith and the Koran and find the soul of this Supremacist Movement.   Moreover, one cannot find meaning in the dualities of the Islamic Rationale simply by leaning on a political interpretation of the texts at the heart of the matter, whilst swelling one’s chest with the pride of an ill-conceived perception of the writ of abrogation, religiously or clerically speaking.   Without understanding the Muslim Ethos, understanding the nature of the Big Lie is impossible.  Indeed, without understanding the Muslim Ethos, delineating the caveats within the Ideology of Islamic Supremacism is the equivalent of tilting at windmills.

At base, the terror we face is not a tide of fascist warriors set on establishing their rule; rather, we face a tsunami of mercantilist slavers bent on establishing Allah’s Dominion over the Laws of Men.  

Presently, as it stands, we Free Men and Women of the West, have one soot covered shrinking window of daylight left on these shores of promise, dedicated to the creative capacity of humanity.  If reason’s rays find their path sealed tight, if the light of individual liberty fades, how will we judge right from wrong in the shadow of a memory?  How will we find truth in the dark of a desperate equality?   And it is in this vein that one must look to the shuttering window, sliding shut, and refuse to accept the dying of the light and as an act of volition must take a sledgehammer to the wall the darkening window sits within, as a measure of selflove, with the passion of friendship’s first gleaming.  Afterall, Fate is the foremost veil of Islamic Supremacism’s arsenal, while Promise is Hope’s opposite.  We free men and women of the West are not fated to accept the shuttering of our windows; rather, we hold within our minds the power to break through the walls that cage and breathe the promise of the dawning as we walk through, upright, shoulders back, chin high.  Hope is the resolve of a prisoner.  Promise is forged by the merits of a free mind.  And, regardless of which chords are intoned by the Obama Presidency in the Muslim lands, America’s Dream is not satisfied with the Hope for change within our gilded cages…America’s Dream is only Satisfied by a limitless sky and the boundless promise of individual flight.  In full, the antidote for Islamic Supremacism is and always has been the American Dream.  While the Muslim Ethos incites Jihad, the American Dream excites Reason.  While the Muslim Ethos aspires to the capacity of World Dominion, the American Dream inspires the invention of Worldwide Emancipation.  Faith in Reason, then, is not a far off thing…however, it is a volitional thing.

Individual Liberty is an earned thing, and only by engaging one another will we inspire the possibility and promise.  The rate at which we, in the West, are gaining ground on understanding the nature of contemporary jihadism and Islamic Supremacy is beset on all side by the fatalist whispers of corrupted reason.  Whether we realize it or not, we are fighting amongst ourselves, divided, leaderless, rudderless, with no direction home.  At first blush, this engagement chronicle may appear to dash the validity of the study of Political Islam, when in reality, this journal champions the heroic resolve of Bill Warner’s foundational efforts.  His ability to recognize the utter delusion necessary to swallow the pill of Obama’s “Official Islam” is not only commendable, it is rare and priceless gem.

Bill Warner’s assessment of President Obama’s Cairo rendering of “Official Islam” denotes a startlingly clear understanding of Barack Hussein Obama’s Engagement policies of Dhimmipolitik.   However, without a full breakdown of the Muslim Ethos and the ideological driving doctrines of Islamic Supremacism, the assessment is not actionable.   In all reality, Bill Warner’s assessment demonstrates this weakness in the declaration that not one line of the “Official Islam” is totally true.  In this, I beg to differ, that I might lend a sledghehammer to my friend.

Islam has a Golden Rule, Bill.  The Golden Rule of Islam is the cornerstone of the Institution of the Hisba.  This Public Duty in Islam is denoted in the Koranic Constitution of the Muslim Psyche by the ayat “Enjoin Good and Forbid Evil”.  To deny the value system of Islam is to destroy the Western ability to ideologically defeat the Political Islamists and Militant Jihadists ‘neath the umbrella of Islamic Supremacy.  The word “enjoin” means “command or demand from a position of authority”.  Therefore, the Golden rule of Islam, the source of the Muslim Ethos is based on Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Evil from a position of Authority.  A statistical analysis will not yield this definition, nor will scientific reasoning create a mental bridge which allows the Western thinkers tarrying in your footsteps to divine the nature of that authority, or the nature of Political Islam’s dedication to it.  Sure, 90% or more of the time in the Koran, when Jihad is mentioned it is aimed at militantly coercing the submission of unbelievers and taking converts into the fold…but that does not change the fact that the first verses of the Koran are found in Sura 96, and that verse imparts to the world that Allah made men from a clot and taught men by the pen what they knew not.  

Only by understanding that this “new knowledge” handed down directly by Allah is the source of Authority can one expect the Western world to comprehend the depths and ethics of Jahaliya rationale.  Moreover, only when the Western world grapples with the Koranic assertion that Allah made men and djinn solely to worship Him can one place any context to the value of prayer as the ultimate “Good” in the Muslim framed Ethos.  Islam’s Ethics delivers and imparts an affirming faith in the grace of transmission found in the exemplar of the Prophet, whose will to submit generated Gabriel’s presence and alburaq’s flight to Jerusalem.  Only by placing Political Islam in this framework, can the supremacy espoused by the clerical elites of modernity be understood, reasonably, as a measure of engagement.  Without Hisba, Islam is a religion.  With Hisba, Islam is a socio-economic totality, with a prepackaged, precharted avenue toward Islamic Supremacy.  The key to the recognition of the Islamic golden rule is to defy ALL attempts to give it creedence and moral equivalence to the Judeo-Christian version: “Do unto others”. 

In full, the Hisba destroys individual rights and replaces them with the capacity of man to aspire to Allah’s fatefully prescribed Limits.  Allah’s Rights supercede Human Rights in this frame of Ethical Authority.  Shariah Law, then, holds supremacy over all constructs of manmade law under the yoke of Hisba’s tyrannical construct.

The weakness of Political Islamic studies in comprehending the ideology of Jihad and Islamic Supremacism is akin to that of an old wind up alarm clock.  Time’s tumblers must be pressed back into line.  Old wind up alarm clocks are not designed for long term accuracy…they have three gears and must continually be wound and reset.  But what of the clocks in Big Ben and the massive clocks around the world that will operate far beyond our lifetimes and will always measure time to the accuracy of one one thousandth of a second?  What is the difference?  Gears.  The number of gears increase and as the number of connections and teeth increase, accuracy is fractionalized over and over and over and over, making the clock more and more and more efficient and accurate.  Political Islamic studies as laid down by Bill Warner are the primary gears of a Big Ben clock; however, to achieve complete understanding on the depths of Islamic Supremacist thought and to accurately surmise the path the West should take to guarantee its individual liberties in the wake of the constant challenges associated with the demographic expansion of the Islamic Faith, we must fractionalize our misunderstandings of the Muslim Ethos.  We must, as a guild of tinkers, build an accurate clock…only in this way will the cartography of contemporary jihad yield anything of lasting worth in the long run as America’s best and brightest gear up for the intellectual revolution. 

I take refuge in reason’s first principles.  History is a study in ethics and ethical movements.  Politics, economics, militancy, diplomacy, and civility spring forth from the ethical lessons of a people’s cultural heritage.  Ethically, the American Dream is the only champion capable of vanquishing the Islamic Supremacy inherent in the Muslim Ethos.

-signed…a Black Swan.

(7/7/09, 5:31pmEST)