Muslims live their religion as an identity, a culture. No Muslim individual or Muslim group or Muslim state can do anything without Islam having expressed it’s permission directly or implicitly.
Islam is not part of the Muslim personality, but is all his personality. Mohammed is not a model for Muslims – every Muslim is, or aspires to be, Mohammed.
Islam is not an ideology of which one is a follower or is forced to be a follower. It is an identity gradually acquired over the course of one’s life. Abandoning Islam involves suicide for the Muslim because every Muslim is Islam, Muhammad, the Qur’an the Sunna and Sharia incarnate. Many Muslims circumvent limitations caused by identity, but they do not change and do not definitely declare all that is cumbersome in Islam (ie 99% of this learning identity). In a Muslim, there is no universal human being as this is perceived by philosophers, scientists and good thinkers. The Islamic body contains only Islam. Nothing else. A Muslim does not criticize Islam or Muhammad, or the Quran or the Sunnah because that would be equal to self-criticism.
One who limps does not criticize his own staggering gait. He lives with it and does not accept the curious eyes of onlookers. Some countries provide reasonable compromises with Muslims, in much the same way as they attempt to assist the mentally disabled – for humanitarian reasons. Ironically, those accused of Islamophobia and racism against Muslims are those who consider Muslims as equals, as people who should make an effort to get rid of Islam, believing that Muslims are Islamic followers with their own will, with the capability of rational thought. They are wrong.
To assert that the Muslim is linked to Islam is a mistake. It is Islam that is “attached” to this human being, which penetrates and abducts them, drawing them away from their humanity, wrapping them in a cocoon and preventing them from communicating with the rest of humanity, perverting them from ever participating fully in the development of humanity, or even to enjoy this development.
In this, Islam is a race, identity and culture. To criticize Islam is to criticize the Muslim because the Muslim is Islam. This may explain why all international institutions, western governments, media and intellectual hesitations have cowered and decided not to consider Islam an ideology. All of these people know that Islam is a kind of “operating system” similar to the system that takes possession of a computer, controlling it, driving it, making it “alive”. Without this system in place, the machine is a “dead” frame, and without the machine, the operating system is a useless abstract term.
Thus Islam has felled all humanity: Muslims are prisoners forever and non-Muslims cannot free them because no person is liberated by his race, identity or culture. Any attempt to free Muslims is considered racism.
For too long, humanity has allowed this teaching to penetrate into the souls of people, latching onto to their “natural cultural genes,” where it shapes their own individual and collective identity, and ultimately to take full control of their “biology” and even of their unconscious thought. Those who compare Islam (-ISM), Communism and Nazism know nothing. Ataturk also believed that Islam is a simple ideology that people turn to or turn back as soon as one explains the phenomenon.
Islam is not an ideology but another way of producing and controlling living beings, beings that can hardly be said to qualify as people in the sense understood by humanistic philosophers.