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 itself directly or implicitly.
Islam is not a part of the Muslim personality, but is his whole personality. Mohammed is not a model for Muslims. Every Muslim is Mohammed.
Islam is not an ideology that one is a follower of or is forced to be a follower of. It is an identity that is acquired gradually over the course of life. Leaving Islam means suicide for the Muslim, because every Muslim is Islam, is Muhammad, is the Qur’an, is the Sunnah, is the Sharia… Many Muslims bypass some limitations caused by identity, but they do not transform and do not definitively get rid of all that burdens in Islam (ie 99% of this teaching-identity). In a Muslim, there is not the universal man as perceived by philosophers, scientists and the good thinkers. The Islamic human form contains only Islam. Nothing else. A Muslim does not criticize Islam or Muhammad, or the Qur’an or the Sunnah because that is tantamount to self-criticism.
One who limps does not criticize his faltering gait. He lives with it and does not accept that anyone has prying eyes. In some countries, they make reasonable adjustments to Muslims as they make adjustments to the mentally retarded for humanitarian reasons. Only those who are accused of Islamophobia and racism against Muslims consider Muslims as equals, as people who should make an effort to get rid of Islam, with the belief that they are Islamic followers of their own free will, in a rational thought process, but wrong .
Claiming that the Muslim is connected to Islam is a mistake. It is Islam that is “attached” to this man, penetrates him, abducts him, detracts from his humanity, wraps him in a cocoon and prevents him from communicating with the rest of humanity, perverts him little by little to create a being incapable of participating fully in the development of humanity. Not even able to even enjoy it.
With this Islam is a race, identity and culture. To criticize Islam is to criticize the Muslim, because the Muslim is Islam. This perhaps explains why all international institutions, Western countries’ governments, media and intellectuals hesitate, flee and decide not to consider Islam as a pure ideology. All these people know that Islam is a kind of “operating system” similar to the system that takes possession of a computer, controls it, operates it, makes it alive. Without this system, the machine is a “dead” frame, and without the machine, the operating system is a useless abstract concept.
Thus, Islam has failed all humanity: Muslims are prisoners forever and non-Muslims cannot free them, because no person is freed from his race, identity and culture. Any attempt to do so is seen as racism.
Humanity has for far too long allowed this teaching to penetrate the souls of people, attach itself to their “natural cultural genes,” shape their own identity and collective identity, and ultimately take full control of their “biology” and even of their unconsciousness. Those who compare Islam (ISM), communism or Nazism know nothing. Ataturk also believed that Islam is a simple ideology that people join or turn their backs on as soon as the phenomenon is explained.
Islam is not an ideology, but another way of producing and managing living beings, which we have difficulty qualifying as human beings in the sense understood by humanist philosophers.
The Muslim
