| Terrorism:
The Rite Of The Antichrist
We have so far looked at the kind of movement the Antichrist,
the greatest purveyor of discord in the days leading up to
doomsday, represents, and what kind of people are ensnared
by it. In this chapter, we shall consider terrorism, one of
the gravest contributors to this strife.
Although it is one of the most commonly heard terms in the
world today, there is still no definition of it that all can
agree on. One of the main reasons for this is that people
who are regarded as terrorists by some, are regarded by others
as those engaged in a just struggle. Whatever the aim may
be, it is never possible to regard any group that resorts
to violence and targets innocent people as just. Individuals
or societies may desire different things, and these aspirations
may be entirely valid. Yet, violence is not the way to bring
them about. Force should only be used in self-defense. For
that reason, any act of violence aimed at innocent people
may be regarded as an act of terrorism.
The fundamental strategy of terrorism is the spreading of
fear, and by it to gain influence. Instead of working for
their aspirations through more peaceable and reasonable means,
terrorist groups turn to violence, which they regard is far
more effective. According to them, the more ruthless and destructive
an act of terrorism is, the more terrifying it is, in other
words the nearer it will have come to achieving its aim.
One of the most dreadful aspects of terrorism is the fact
that it is devoid of all moral values and recognizes no rules.
People who turn to terrorism lack all love, affection, compassion
and tolerance, and are solely governed by feelings of hatred,
anger and revenge. Unconsciously, such people's intention
is to relieve their anger and take revenge, without considering
the result of their actions. The idea of the damage that their
actions might result in causes not the slightest stirrings
of their conscience. Because, conscience of the kind of person
who regards terrorism as any kind of solution is obstructed,
as, therefore, are his reason, foresight and understanding.
According to the morality of the Qur'an, however, there is
no room for anger. God has revealed that so long as people
act in the light of individual emotions, such as anger, there
will be corruption and chaos in the world. He has therefore
commanded us for all time to behave with a tolerant, peaceful
and brotherly spirit. When people abide by that morality,
however, the system of the Antichrist, based as it is in violence,
will completely collapse, terror and anarchy will disappear,
and the climate of chaos that currently prevails in the world
will come to an end. This is how God recommends that morality
in one verse;
Make allowances for people, command what
is right, and turn away from the ignorant. (Qur'an, 7: 199)
Terrorism has become one of the
major problems plaguing many countries in the world today.
Groups that resort to violence, and mistakenly believe
that armed conflict is the only way to achieve their aims,
carry out actions that lead to deaths and injury of many.
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Those who Engage in Terrorism in the Name
of Religion
This picture from the Late Middle
Ages shows Louis IX fighting with his 15,000 soldiers
on the banks of the Nile. |
The morality of religion forbids all kinds of terrorist acts,
and yet, a number of terrorist groups still claim that they
are acting in its name. Yet, when one has a close look at
the world-views of those who carry out massacres or employ
violence as a method, it is quite clear that such people are
deviant. They have no idea of truth of religion, and are unable
to live by or comprehend its morality. Anyone who genuinely
believes in the existence of God, who truly fears Him and
abides by the book revealed by Him would never be able to
take any kind of action that might harm innocent and defenseless
people. Those who carry out acts of terrorism and violence
in the name of Islam, therefore, cannot possibly be called
religious groups.
The true message of a religion or other system of ideas may
sometimes be twisted by its so-called supporters, or interpreted
incorrectly. That applies to Judaism as well as Christianity.
The Crusaders, for instance, were European Christians who
set out from Europe at the end of the 11th century
with the aim of liberating the Holy Land. They may have set
out with an alleged religious agenda, but they spread fear
and barbarity wherever they went.
The savagery of these barbarians who misinterpreted Christianity,
which is a religion of love and certainly has no room for
violence, clearly had nothing to do with genuine religion
at all.
Most of those who resort to terror in the name of religion
are fanatical groups linked to pagan beliefs or newly developed
mystical teachings, not the divine religions at all. These
groups, and especially those in America and Japan, carry out
terrible acts of violence against their own members as well
as other people. These include the groups that burned themselves
to death on a farm, or committed mass suicide in their beds,
or the people who harmed others by releasing poison gas in
the Japanese underground system. Other groups that have come
to notice, due to their acts of terrorism, include fanatical
racists such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. Over
the last 20 years in particular, there has been a visible
increase in racist and fascist ideas among young people, and
that has led to an increase in the number of acts of violence.
The attacks perpetrated against Turks in Germany a few years
ago, the abuse and assaults aimed at people of Asian and African
origin in other European countries, and the acts of violence
against Blacks and Arabs that still take place in the United
States even today, can all be included among the range of
methods employed by such groups.
 It
must not be forgotten that, at the basis of all deviant movements,
both those considered in this book and others that we have
not dealt with, lies the fact that people have turned their
backs on the morality of religion, and have been raised without
true knowledge of the religion The common religious morality
of Islam, Christianity and Judaism is diametrically opposed
to the system of the Antichrist, built as it is on violence
and savagery. At the root of religion lies love, affection
and compassion. God has commanded us to treat one another
with justice, tolerance, understanding, compassion and respect.
Furthermore, people are charged with effecting that kind of
behavior no matter what the religion, language, race or gender
of the person they are dealing with. For that reason, it is
impossible for there to be violence in a society where the
morality of religion prevails. The morality of religion is
the only system that can lead people to peace and security.
God reveals in one verse:
You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace
(Islam). Do not follow in the footsteps of the Devil. He is
an outright enemy to you. (Qur'an, 2: 208)
The following pages contain some information
about groups and organizations that regard violence as normal
and essential. The aim behind the preparation of this section
is not to provide information about these terrorist organizations.
It is to reveal the ideological system of the Antichrist,
which deceives these groups that regard violence as a solution,
no matter what their respective ideologies may be. The information
here is of the utmost importance from the point of view of
demonstrating the complexity of the system of the Antichrist,
one which is currently so prevalent in the world.
The attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, are considered
some of the worst acts of terrorism of recent years. The
fight against terrorism, once again became a priority
as a result of the deaths of thousands of innocent people
in these attacks. |
RACIST TERROR
As part of the cover story in Time
magazine in 1995, was the rapid rise in the number of
racist organizations. The article described how racist
movements had gone underground since the Second World
War, but had never ceased their activities, the rise in
the number of racist attacks in recent years being an
indication of this. |
World War II was madness sparked off by a racist and fascist
ideology. Violence and conflict, the so-called sacred values
of these ideologies, briskly infected the entire world, leading
to 55 million people falling victim to fascist savagery. Though
the fact that victory fell upon the Allies meant that fascism
was defeated, it did not disappear. It merely went underground.
As a whole, there has been a discernable rise in the number
of racist and fascist organizations and acts of violence in
the world over the last 10 years. While Europe battles with
acts of violence perpetrated by neo-Nazis, the United States
has had to deal with a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and
similar "white supremacy" organizations. Today, both the neo-Nazis
and the members of the Ku Klux Klan are carrying out attacks
and encouraging their members to commits acts of terror and
violence.
Many people may imagine that the Ku Klux Klan had carried
out most of its attacks on and oppression of Blacks merely
in the 1920s and 1930s, but that in modern times it had been
consigned to the waste bin of history. The Klan is still alive,
however. Today, in the United States as a whole, there are
a great many Ku Klux Klan churches, even if they happen to
go by other names, and many racist organizations linked to
that church's teachings. That church and the organizations
linked to it are not just against Blacks, but oppose all non-European
races, especially the Muslims living in America, believing
that a concerted struggle needs to be waged against them.
That "struggle" includes the formation of armed units.
It is no secret that the basis of the Klan's teachings is
that European whites are superior to all other races, and
that the white race should never be polluted by those others.
In order to prevent such contamination, other races must not
be permitted to live in areas inhabited by the white race.
The idea is that the other races have no right to the kinds
of opportunities enjoyed by the whites. These races are regarded
as parasites trying to contaminate the purity and superiority
of the whites, and it is believed that all kinds of measures
need to be taken to oppose them. These views of the Klan are
the basis for the attacks carried out against other races
in America. At the root of these ideas, lies hatred and aggression
instead of love, tolerance and dialogue.
The so-called scientific justification for the concept of
the superiority of the white race is Darwin's theory of evolution.
Darwin had suggested that certain races, the European race
for instance, had progressed further than other races during
the evolutionary process. Those outside these advanced races
were in his view primitive creatures little better than apes.
To put it another way, while some races had made enormous
evolutionary progress, others were still at a level not far
removed from man's primitive ancestor, the ape. Darwin indulged
in racist speculation about the future, and wrote:
Turkish citizens have suffered at
the hands of the increasingly active racist movements
in Germany. The homes of Turkish immigrants have been
looted, set on fire, and the people in them burned alive
by monsters whose heads are crammed with racist indoctrination. |
At some future period, not very distant
as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will
almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races
throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous
(manlike) apes, …will no doubt be exterminated. The break
between man and his nearest allies will then be wider.15
These racist views of Darwin's became an important justification
used in the service of the colonialist powers of the time
to disguise their own brutality. The claim that Darwin put
forward to demonstrate his theory is extremely interesting
in the point of view of revealing his ignorance and prejudice.
In a letter to a scientist named W. Graham in 1881, Darwin
cited the Turkish nation as a proof of his theory. According
to this nonsense of Darwin's, the Turkish nation was one of
those backward peoples that would soon disappear:
I could show fight on natural selection
having done and doing more for the progress of civilization
than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations
of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed
by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The
more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish
hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world
at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower
races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races
throughout the world.16
Even today we still hear of churches belonging to Blacks
in various states in America being burned, of attacks on mosques
and synagogues, and assaults of members of other races. Following
the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September
11, 2001, in particular, certain circles influenced by this
and similar organizations stepped up their attacks. Businesses,
mosques and associations belonging to Muslims in a number
of states were attacked. Muslim students were not allowed
into school, and Muslim children were assaulted in the streets.
Everyone not totally devoid of reason and logic knows that
the Islamic world, and innocent Muslim civilian and children
in particular, cannot be held responsible for those ruthless
attacks. (In fact, following September 11, there emerged a
significant reaction, on the part of those with intelligence
and common sense, which instead began to look into Islam.
There was also an increase in the number of people turning
to Islam). On the other hand, the situation was merely one
indication of what a menace the encouragement of hatred based
on race or belief could pose.
Members of the Klan do not agree, however. They are busily
preparing for a great war between the races, which they believe
will take place in the 21st century.
 
Following the September 11 attacks
there was a visible rise in the level of racist attacks
in the United States, where racism had in any case spread
widely during the 1990s. Innocent people lost their lives
in these attacks, aimed at Muslims' homes, workplaces
and schools, in just the same way they did in the attack
on the World Trade Center. |
The Dimensions of Racism in America
The Ku Klux Klan was established in the
1870s, and became very powerful in America in the wake of
the First World War. By the 1920s, it had some 3-4 million
members.17
Like those of all other racist ideologies, the ideological
roots of the teachings of the Klan, which start from the premise
that "We will slaughter our enemies when the war to protect
the white race begins," is the view that the white race is
at the top of the evolutionary scale, while other races are
to be located further down, for which reason they merit all
kinds of inhuman treatment. A great number of people in America
still hold to this view. It is fair to say that these groups,
organized under different names, such as the National Alliance,
the World Church of the Creator and Arian Nation, actually
operate under the umbrella of the Ku Klux Klan.
The most important common factor between the views of these
organizations, some of which we shall be looking at below,
is that they have no qualms about using violence to achieve
their aims, but rather often regard violence and aggression
as necessary.
World Church of the Creator (WCOTC)
The WCOTC is one of those active racist organizations in
America that is growing stronger by the day. This deviant
organization denies the existence of God, the day of judgment,
heaven and hell, and also has a large number of followers
outside the United States. The idea of the superiority of
the white race constitutes the basis of the organization's
ideology. On its web site, Ben Klassen, the founder of this
racist group, has this to say about their ideology:
The symbols and slogans used by
racist groups active in the United States strikingly reveal
the violent tendencies of these organizations. The "Ethnic
Cleansing" pictured below represents a computer game
prepared for racist young people. The basis for winning
the game is killing as many people from different races
as possible. |
[The] objective [of our religion] would
be: The Survival, Expansion and Advancement of the White Race.
It [our religion] is based on love--love for the White Race….
We, therefore, reject …angels and devils and gods…. Our Golden
Rule briefly can be summarized as follows: That which is good
for the White Race is the highest virtue; that which is bad
for the White Race is the ultimate sin… Nature tells us to
take care of our own kind and only our own kind. We do not
regard any of the mud races to be our own kind… The niggers,
undoubtedly, are at the very bottom of the ladder, not far
above monkeys and chimpanzees… We have no intention of helping
the mud races prosper, multiply, and crowd us off the limited
space of this planet.18
This perverse idea, as we have seen, is treated as a religion
by its followers, its members subscribing to it wholly. However,
it is totally unfounded, of course, to call this perversity
a religion. We would be more correct in calling it a brand
of Social Darwinism, the fundamental teaching of which is
the future struggle against other races. That notion is actually
referred to by the slogan "Rahowa," (Racial Holy War), and
is regarded by the group as one of its core values. In another
address, Ben Klassen informed his followers what Rahowa actually
means, and felt no scruples about calling them to take up
arms:
RAHOWA! In this one word we sum up the total
goal and program of not only the Church of the Creator, but
of the total White Race, and it is this: We take up the challenge.
We gird for total war against the Jews and the rest of the
goddamned mud races of the world-politically, militantly,
financially, morally and religiously. In fact we regard it
as the heart of our religious creed, and as the most sacred
credo of all. We regard it as a holy war to the finish-a racial
holy war.19
The expected war between the races is one of the major aims
of Klan organizations. The subject is stressed at just about
every meeting. During speeches, Klan members are filled with
enthusiasm for the war, and many references to it are made
in their writings. Incitement towards this war, which has
now assumed mythical status among them, is frequently to be
seen in Klan publications. For instance, the journal Knight-Ridder,
which covered a national rally held in Columbia, included
the following lines:
Ben Klassen |
King is the leader of the Christian Knights,
who dreams of a resurgent Ku Klux Klan... He points down the
street where both he and a neighbor decorate their front yards
with robed Klansmen yard statues. He says: "A race war is
coming. The Klan is the only hope for the white race."20
As is the case with many racist organizations, Rahowa is
founded fundamentally on the belief in evolution. Such a degree
of hostility towards other races, and the lack of any compunction
over the using of violence as a means, are all the result
of the belief in the theory of evolution. Nothing can prevent
anyone who regards somebody else as an animal from abusing,
attacking and, if necessary, killing that individual.
The following words of Matt Hale, who became leader of the
organization after Ben Klassen, are just one example of the
close connection between the idea which they treat as a religion
and belief in evolution:
But we are animals. That's the thing. We
don't accept this idea that just because we can think and
speak and walk on two legs that we are not bound by nature's
laws. We are.21
Matt Hale |
These words are an indication of the organization's peculiar,
unique view of religion. Naturally, that religion has absolutely
nothing to do with Christianity, which promotes humility,
love and tolerance. And, the leaders of the organization do
not hesitate to admit the fact. The following extract from
an interview with Matt Hale nicely sums up their view of religion:
Rather than a religion such as Christianity,
which tells them to love their enemies, love the meek and
the inferior. We need a religion, which exalts our own people
and our own people alone… So we need to recognize this and
do away with the idea that all men are created equal and idiotic
notions of that kind… what we believe in doing is ending all
aid to all non-white races. We believe that without this aid
the non-white races would very quickly shrink their own numbers.
They could not feed themselves… We believe that a perfect
world is much more possible by having only white people, white
racial comrades
around the world. And we believe that once the non-white
races are gone, and the white race is united with a pro living,
a pro-life creed such as Creativity, there will be peace and
prosperity for our white people.22
Yet those who maintain the superiority of one race, and believe
that their characteristics make them superior to others, are
ignoring one very important truth. None of these values are
permanent. Every human being, be he a believer or an unbeliever,
will sooner or later die, leaving behind everything that he
possessed in this world, and render account for himself to
our Lord. On that day, nobody will be able to help anyone
else, nobody's race, color or ancestry will be of the slightest
importance, nothing he possessed in this world will be of
the slightest advantage to him, and nobody will be able to
put forward any excuses to justify his actions. God describes
this in a verse:
Then when the Trumpet is blown, no ties of
kinship will exist between them on that day, nor may they
question one another. (Qur'an, 23: 101)
Klan Teachings
 The
following articles were taken from a speech by Matt Hale at
a Klan rally on January 14, 2001:
- Saying the races are equal is an insult to our race.
- We despise and abhor integration, interracial marriage
and the flooding of this country with non-White hoards.
- Interracial marriage is a sin against our people.
- The Civil Rights movement was wrong for us. It was wrong
for our interests.
- The white race is intellectually superior to all other
races.
- When we have our day, when we are in power in this world
as we wish to be, as we will be, certainly we will subsidize
the best of our race, the most intelligent of our race to
have the most children.
- The future is going to be one in which we have a land that
is White and we will repatriate the other races.
- They would be pushed on the boats by force-within the law!
That's going to be the law.
- Non-Whites are absolutely irrelevant. If they were lying
in a pool of blood, it would be absolutely irrelevant. It
simply means nothing to me. What I care about is my own racial
family.
- The brain makes the races different. The races have different
shapes and sizes of brains.
- On why most serial killers have been White
… White people plan what they do. White people actually think.
Most of the crimes that Blacks commit are impulsive. White
people think about the crime they are going to commit. White
people are involved in this type of crime because it takes
a lot of planning.23
These words strikingly reveal the thinking of a Klan member.
This mentality is of such a kind that even the acts of a serial
murder can become the cause for boasting, and savagery justified
in the name of racial superiority.
The National Alliance
 One
of the fascist organizations enjoying increasing support from
young people in America is the National Alliance. The organization
was first founded in 1970 by Dr. William Pierce, a young professor
of physics at Oregon State University, as the National Youth
Alliance. Its outstanding characteristic was the way it targeted
colleges and universities. Age of membership was restricted
to 30 and under. Later, however, that age barrier was lifted
and a new organization was created called the National Alliance.
One of the principle objectives of this organization attaches
great importance to the rearing up of young people with racist
ideas. That, it is believed, will enable future generations
to emerge in the awareness of racial superiority. Like all
other racist groups, the National Alliance aims to defend
the superiority of the white race under all circumstances.
Dr. Pierce summed up this objective during an interview he
gave in 1997:
Dr. William Pierce |
Ultimately, we must separate ourselves from
the Blacks and other non-Whites and keep ourselves separate,
no matter what it takes to accomplish this… Eventually we
must hunt them down and get rid of them.24
That, of course, is not the only similarity between the National
Alliance and other fascist organizations. As with others who
believe in the theory of evolution, it is also prominent in
the National Alliance. No matter how much organization members
may claim to be religious, their statements reveal their beliefs
to be totally opposed to religion. In general, they will state
the following:
We see ourselves as integral with a unitary
world around us, which evolves according to natural law. In
the simplest words: There is only one reality, which we call
Nature: …We are part of Nature and subject to Nature's laws.
Within the scope of these laws we are able to determine our
own destiny… In other words, we ourselves are responsible
for everything over which we have the power of choice: in
particular, for the state of our environment and for the destiny
of our race. This view may be contrasted with the Semitic
view.25
As we have seen, the use of religious principles
in speeches by fascist and racist groups, and their efforts
to portray themselves as people who live by the morality of
religion, are nothing more than a sham tactic. Studies and
researches by sociologists and academics have emphasized this
fact. One of these academics is Jack Levin, director for the
study of Violence and Social Conflict at Boston's Northeastern
University. Levin states that the reason the groups use biblical
references is to "lend an air of religious credibility" to
their message of hate.26
NEO-NAZISM: AN IDEOLOGY BASED ON VIOLENCE
AND TERROR
 While
racist groups that represent racism and xenophobia come together
under the umbrella of the Ku Klux Klan in America, the neo-Nazis
perform the same role in Europe. European racism began with
the skinheads in Great Britain, and turned into a neo-Nazi
movement in the 1990s. The main characteristics of these groups
which define themselves as neo-Nazis are the way that, just
like the Ku Klux Klan, they maintain the superiority of the
white race and attack foreigners and those living in poorer
areas.
Neo-Nazi movements have grown increasingly powerful over
the last 10 years, and their sphere of influence has widened
considerably. Their members now number around 70,000. The
neo-Nazis have set themselves various targets in different
countries. According to one study, Turks in Germany, Gypsies
in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Asians in Great
Britain, North Africans in France and Northeasterners in Brazil,
are among their slated victims. The neo-Nazis' distinguishing
characteristics are violence, hatred, intimidation, the use
of threat and destruction.
According to official German figures, in 1997 alone there
were 10,037 incidents linked to racism and xenophobia. The
figure for 2000 was more than 10,000. In Britain, there were
10,982 racism-linked incidents between April and September
alone. More than half of these crimes consisted of threats,
menaces and intimidation. The rest were made up of murders,
assaults, vandalism of homes and businesses, etc.
The books The Turner Diaries and
Hunter, written by William Pierce under the pen name Andrew
Macdonald, one of the leaders of the National Alliance,
are important sources of inspiration for racists around
the world. The Turner Diaries describes how a lone racist
bombs the FBI headquarters. The hero of Hunter kills Jews
and members of other minorities. |
Louis Beam and William Pierce, extreme right-wing American
ideologues, share a very important place in the neo-Nazi movement
that developed during the 1990s. The concepts of "leaderless
resistance" and "white revolution" put forward by these men
have now come to dominate the thought of the neo-Nazi movement.
At the root of various acts of terror, such as bombings, looting,
and the destruction of workplaces in numerous countries of
the world, can continually be found their concept of "leaderless
resistance." According to their idea, neo-Nazi actions aught
to be carried out on either an individual basis or else by
very small gangs.
The books Hunter and The Turner Diaries
by William Pierce are regarded as the principle inspiration
behind neo-Nazi terror. The pamphlet A Practical Guide to
Aryan Revolution by the French Nationalist Socialist Movement,
which took those books as its theoretical basis, contains
all the information a neo-Nazi would require. The pamphlet
is a detailed, practical terrorist handbook, divided into
such chapter headings as Methods of Covert Direct Action,
Escape and Evasion, Assasination, Terror Bombing, Sabotage,
Racial War, How To Create A Revolutionary Situation, and Rules
of Engagement - Regulations Concerning the Conduct of Soldiers
of the Aryan Liberation Army. 27
Even if they do not play an active role
within these groups, many people nevertheless support fascism
and are influenced by these books. The Turner Diaries, for
instance, describe how one underground group organized against
the state and what kind of activities it engaged in. In his
defense, a man by the name of John William King, who killed
a Black man named James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by tying him and
dragging him behind his pick-up truck, was reported to having
said, "We're going to start The Turner Diaries early."28
Following the 1993 Oklahoma bombing by Timothy
McVeigh, attention turned to William Pierce's book Hunter,
in which Pierce described the actions of a bomber who acted
alone. The hero of the book was not supported by any group
or organization, but consciously carried out a terrorist attack
single-handedly, just as Timothy McVeigh did. 29
 
The ideology of neo-Nazism, who
have become active all over the world again in recent
years, turns its members into those who take pleasure
in violence and bloodshed. The neo-Nazi movement attracts
the more ignorant members of society, and remains a real
menace in many countries. |
The Oklahoma Bomber Was a Neo-Nazi
The bombing in Oklahoma by Timothy
McVeigh made the cover of Time magazine. The pictures
on the adjacent page and the one after show scenes from
the aftermath of the attack. |
Up until September 11, 2001, the worst terrorist attack the
American people had witnessed was that of on federal building
in Oklahoma by Timothy McVeigh, as a result of which 168 people
lost their lives, including a number of children. What is
interesting about that bombing is that Timothy McVeigh was
both the member of a deviant cult as well as a neo-Nazi.
McVeigh claimed to have carried out that bombing in revenge
for David Koresh and his followers who burned to death on
a farm in 1993. According to McVeigh, Koresh and the cult
members did not kill themselves, but were actually murdered
by the American state. He therefore decided to take revenge
on that state, and planned to bomb the people working in its
name in the Federal Building. Exactly two years after the
deaths of Koresh and his cult followers, on the second anniversary
in fact, McVeigh cold-bloodedly parked a lorry full of explosives
in front of the Federal Building and the rest is history.
After the attack, McVeigh was helped by another neo-Nazi,
Terry Nichols. The most important fact to recognize about
those who supported Nichols and McVeigh before the attack,
who helped locate the explosives and knew what McVeigh was
up to, is that they were all neo-Nazis.
Shortly before his execution, McVeigh sent
a letter to The Buffalo News in which he said he was not sorry
about the bombing, which he saw as a "legit tactic," in his
solitary war against the federal government. That attack,
the product of a disturbed mind, is once again an appalling
indication of what terrible destruction the movements we are
presently discussing can wreak on people and society.30
 As
we should now be able to recognize from these numerous examples,
those who are caught up in the system of the Antichrist believe
it is entirely justified to discriminate between people on
the grounds of race, language and gender, and to exercise
brutality against them. What is more, that discrimination
between communities can turn into the type of hysteria that
leads to war and destruction. People are attacked solely because
of their language, religion or race, and needlessly suffer
all sorts of abuse. One of the reasons for this, as is made
clear in the Qur'an, is that the Devil portrays "fanatical
rage" as right and honorable. Most of the groups who at the
present are encouraging terrorism, or who carry such acts,
are caught up by this temptation, and base their attacks on
racist statements. It is clear from the following verse exactly
to what extent such racist provocation violates the principles
of Islam:
Those who disbelieve filled their hearts
with fanatical rage-the fanatical rage of the Time of Ignorance-and
God sent down serenity to His Messenger and to the believers,
and obliged them to respect the formula of heedfulness which
they had most right to and were most entitled to. God has
knowledge of all things. (Qur'an, 48:26)
 The
different peoples of the world have been created in order
for human beings to come to know each other, to have good
relations with each other, not to be enemies of one another.
In the Qur'an, God has revealed that the ideology of the "master
race," which foments the climate of terror desired by the
Antichrist, is utterly false. Only better morality proffers
societies, cultures or individuals with superiority. It is
of absolutely no importance what race people belong to, what
language they speak, or what color their skins are. Trying
to ascribe superiority on the basis of such values, and harboring
feelings of hatred towards other societies, are products of
the ideology of the Antichrist. This is how God has revealed
that the differences between races are a means by which friendship
and cultural exchange can be brought about, and that superiority
depends solely on piety, in other words, on faith and morality:
Mankind! We created you from a male and female,
and made you into peoples and tribes so that you might come
to know each other.The noblest among you in God's sight is
the one who best performs his duty. God is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(Qur'an, 49: 13)
SATANISM; THE TERROR OF THE DEVIL
Satanism is a perverted ideology that makes violence and
savagery a ritual in its creed. Satanists, who describe themselves
as such, make deeds of inhumanity and brutality into acts
of worship.
When the word Satanism is mentioned most people think merely
of its widespread psychological influence on young people,
and regard it as a kind of insignificant mystical movement.
Also, due to the influence of the media, they may think of
Satanists as performing strange rituals, much unlike what
ordinary and well-balanced people would otherwise do. It is
true that Satanists are part of a culture of violence and
perform strange and horrible rites, yet, what most people
fail to see is that Satanism is a materialist and atheist
ideology that supports violence and which dates back to the
1800s. Furthermore, the ideology has a large number of followers
throughout the world.
The fundamental principle of Satanism is that it rejects
all religious values, takes the Devil as its deity, and claims
that hell is a kind of salvation. According to the belief
of Satanism, people have no responsibilities, apart from that
of following their own desires. If his desires lead a person
to anger, hatred, revenge, deceit, theft, the harming others
or even murder, then that is acceptable. The basic logic that
Satanism relies on, in support of that belief, is the claim
that the avoidance of evil is a kind of insincerity. In other
words, this perverted belief maintains that if his desires
impel someone to kill another, and if he acts according to
that impulse, then he has behaved sincerely.
Virtues such as love, tolerance, patience and forgiveness,
which are highly esteemed by most people, and are elements
of the true morality, are loathed by Satanists. This deviant
ideology maintains that there should be no restrictions on
evil and such feelings as hatred, anger and vengeance. Article
5 of The Satanic Bible, widely regarded as the fundamental
textbook of Satanism, states, instead of the biblical principle
that says "To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the
other also." that "Satan represents vengeance, instead of
turning the other cheek." Elsewhere in that same book appears
the commandment:
Hate your enemies with a whole heart, and
if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!31
It is obvious that according to such thinking it will be
impossible to prevent any kind wickedness. Such an atmosphere
will inevitably lead to chaos and strife. It is impossible
to speak of order, peace, stability, security, forgiveness
or tolerance in any society in which people do not listen
to the voice of their consciences, and are thus unable to
distinguish between good and bad, and to use their will and
judgment to act for good. In an environment of that sort,
anyone who feels anger towards somebody else will be unable
to restrain that anger and behave with moderation, and will
inevitably seek his revenge. Alternatively, instead of being
patient in times of need and poverty, and attempting to address
those needs in a sensible manner, these people will resort
to theft and other sorts of crime. Satanism is their justification
for doing so.
Anton LaVey (right) and the Satanic
Bible (left). |
The kind of society proposed by the ideology
of Satanism recognizes no rules and no bounds. Its aim is
the free expression of selfish desires and evil. In his book
The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey, regarded as the founder of
modern Satanism, recommends to his followers that they live
by and promote wickedness as they so please. In an interview,
LaVey even said: "I feel laws are, obviously, made to be broken
... I see nothing wrong with robbing somebody on the street.32
Satanism's refusal to recognize any bounds does not stop
there, of course. People would not only harm themselves and
those around them, but would direct their hostility and anger
at all. That refusal to recognize any limits, moreover, leads
to the regard of violence as an intrinsic part of life. According
to Satanism, violence is a fact of nature, and thus inescapable.
Therefore, this distorted view maintains that it is perfectly
permissible for people to resort to violence. Since any attempt
to prevent or minimize violence is a violation of what is
natural, any attempt to do so is futile, and it is therefore
illogical to do so.
As we have seen, Satanism
holds utterly perverse beliefs, which encourage people to
be aggressive, to commit murder, and even mass slaughter.
In America in particular, academics have established that
Satanism lies at the root of national terror, and that serious
steps need to be taken in order to deal with it. One of these
academics is Carl Roschke, a professor at Denver University,
who has stressed the importance of the subject in the words,
"We're really dealing with the way satanic ideology has become
a basis for domestic terrorism."33 Roschke
says that the most important step in the war to be waged against
Satanism is to make it clear that its followers are not just
"harmless wackoes," but that when their crimes are examined,
one can understand just how harmful someone claiming to be
a Satanist can be. 34
There is no doubt that the most important fight against a
movement of this sort must be ideological. That being the
case, we must establish which ideologies Satanism is founded
on.
Darwinism is the Ideological Basis of Satanism
One of the most common ways Satanists use to describe themselves,
in their books, magazines and publications, as well as their
websites, is to regard man as a "kind of developed animal,"
and to maintain that "only the fittest can survive." This
is the most important piece of evidence to corroborate that
Darwinism lies at the very root of the Satanists' beliefs.
In fact, many Satanists do not hesitate to admit the fact.
In A Description of Satanism, a Satanist writer describes
the ideology in these terms:
The Secret Life of a Satanist is
the biography of Anton LaVey. |
…First of all, Humans are social animals...
all people and animals share a common source in mere biology.
Satanism is the belief that Humans are nothing more than higher
animals-we have no special place in creation other than being
lucky to have evolved and survived…35
Another Satanist publication, The Church of Satan, describes
how they believe that human beings are a kind of developed
animal:
Since Satanism stands for acceptance of
Man as an animal, there have often been creators in many past
cultures who embraced this insight and explored it in the
context of their society, thus we seek out these artistic
philosophical expressions and see them to be the roots of
our current awareness.36
It is clear from the preceding that Satanism regards Darwin's
theory, that human beings evolved from animals, as the source
of its own ideological "awareness." The introduction to an
interview with Anton LaVey, carried in the music journal MF
Magazine, describes the relationship between Satanism and
Darwinism:
In the late 1960s, Anton LaVey brought forth
an easily understandable doctrine of social Darwinism, and
strong positive thinking (magic) to the growing mass of individuals
sick of both hippieism and the stagnant morals of Christianity.37
Satan Speaks and The Devil's Notebook
by Anton LaVey reveal the Satanists' deviant beliefs.
|
Magister Peter H. Gilmore, a priest of the Church of Satan,
describes this perverted religion in the following terms:
… Let us instead look at contemporary Satanism
for what it really is: a brutal religion of elitism and social
Darwinism that seeks to re-establish the reign of the able
over the idiotic, of swift justice over injustice, and for
a wholesale rejection of egalitarianism as a myth that has
crippled the advancement of the human species for the last
two thousand years.38
Of course, the idea of justice, as set out above, has absolutely
no resemblance to the notion of justice as we know it should
be, that is, established on the principle of equality. The
above version is a Satanist idea of justice, and as will be
seen from what follows, it is a version that endows anyone
who regards himself as superior to others to usurp all such
powers and rights.
The way Satanism shares so many parallels with Social Darwinism,
which regards Western society as superior to others, has led
to cooperation between it and a number of other racist and
chauvinistic movements, especially fascism. One can find many
individuals who believed in Satanism among the ranks of Hitler's
National Socialists and Mussolini's Blackshirts. Anton LaVey
makes this reference to that collaboration:
One of the primary criteria applied
by the theory of eugenics was the measurement of peoples'
skulls. According to such a totally unscientific claim,
those with smaller skulls were backward and doomed to
elimination. |
It's an unholy alliance. Many different
types of such people have made contact with us in the past.
The anti-Christian strength of National Socialist Germany
is part of the appeal to Satanists-the drama, the lighting,
the choreography with which they moved millions of people.39
Darwinism is the primary ground shared between these tendencies
and Satanism. Social Darwinism, which lies at the heart of
all these deviant ideologies, is defended by Satanists as
follows:
The principle of the survival of the strong
is advocated on all levels of society, from allowing an individual
to stand or fall, to even letting those nations that cannot
handle themselves take the consequences of this inability…
There would be a concomitant reduction in the world's population
as the weak are allowed to experience the consequences of
social Darwinism. Thus has nature always acted to cleanse
and strengthen her children… We embrace reality and do not
try to transform it into some utopia that is contrary to the
very fabric of existence.40
Another expression of the Satanists' attachment to Social
Darwinism is their fierce support for the theory of eugenics,
itself the product of fascism. The theory of eugenics maintained
that the sick and the crippled ought to be eliminated from
society, and the number of healthy individuals increased through
breeding. The theory was most prominently implemented in Nazi
Germany. According to the theory of eugenics, in the same
way that healthy animal stock is bred by mating healthy species,
by this way a race of humans also be improved. Those elements
obstructing such improvement (the sick, crippled, mentally
handicapped etc.) need to be eradicated. When this line of
thinking was adopted in Nazi Germany, tens of thousands of
people with genetic and mental diseases were slaughtered ruthlessly.
Satanism is also in favor of the same terrible mercilessness.
Their own publications reveal their view on eugenics:
Satanists also seek to enhance the laws
of nature by concentrating on fostering the practice of eugenics…
It is the practice of encouraging people of talent and ability
to reproduce, to enrich the gene pool from which our species
can grow. This was commonly practiced throughout the world…
Until the genetic code is cracked and we can choose the character
of our offspring at will, Satanists seek to mate the best
with the best. 41
The Perverse Rites of Satanism
The Internet is one of the Satanists'
most frequently used propaganda tools. Young people are
attracted into a world of darkness on these sites, where
they are indoctrinated into perversion and violence, and
encouraged to obey the commands of Satan and participate
in rites involving murder, torture and other forms of
brutality. |
Black masses, and the terrible things that are conducted
during them, is what most often comes to peoples' minds whenever
Satanism is mentioned. Yet, many people believe that it is
make-believe only portrayed in films, and that nothing of
the sort actually takes place in real life. However, the terrible
scenes we are used to watching in films are really parts and
aspects of Satanist masses and rituals.
The real purpose behind these rituals is to make contact
with the Devil and learn his so-called teachings. In order
to see just how important these devilish rites are in Satanism,
a brief look at their own books and websites is more than
sufficient. The common feature of these publications is the
way they devote considerable space to gloomy subjects and
insist on the importance of the black mass. In a well-known
Satanist website, which carries various Satanist messages
for the under-18s, these so-called masses are emphasized as
being one of the fundamental elements of Satanism, and that
young people who cannot attend group ceremonies should nevertheless
hold such services on their own. The details of the services
these young people are instructed to hold are then given:
Don't be disturbed or frightened or think
you're crazy when you feel contacted by the Dark Ones… Approach
the Dark Masters with the proper degree of respect and decorum-that's
what rituals are for, to establish a relationship… You don't
need everything mentioned in Dr. LaVey's books to do an effective
ritual. Maybe you don't have the money to obtain, or the private
space to store, items such as swords, chalices, black robes,
gongs and elaborate altars. Here is a powerful ritual you
can perform… Light the candle and set it before you… As you
gaze at the flame, say in your mind or out loud, "I am ready,
oh, Dark Lord. I feel your strength within me and wish to
honor you in my life. I am one of the Devil's Own. Hail Satan!"…
This is a simple way of conjuring Satan into your life. 42
One can recognize such perversion, immorality and savagery
in any society that takes Satan as its guide. For Satanists,
these things are inspired by the Devil himself, and must be
adhered to. Satanists, who do adhere to them, fall into forms
of sexual perversions, torture humans as well as animals,
and even perform such disgusting things as the drinking of
the blood of the creatures or people they kill. In many countries
of the world, young people who describe themselves as Satanists
hold drug-parties at which all kinds of immorality and perversion
take place, and which frequently end in the killing of one
of their number in the Devil's name.
The way Satanists attach such importance to the shedding
of blood at their rituals is a small-scale example of the
plan Satan has for mankind. Satan hates mankind, and wants
to inflict as much suffering on it as possible. It is therefore
his aim to fill the world with bloodshed. The ideologies of
the Antichrist we discussed earlier, such as fascism, racism
and communism, all serve his purpose. All the wars, massacres,
killings, and acts of terrorism, linked to these and similar
atheistic ideologies, are all "Satanic masses" aimed at satisfying
the Devil's lust for blood.
Those who openly describe themselves as Satanists carry out
the shedding of blood as an act of worship. Those who incite
terror and anarchy in the world are actually performing the
same rite, in a more secret but with far wider ramifications.
In short, the Devil, and the system of the Antichrist established
by him for the world are using those they have managed to
take in and are trying to turn the world into a brutal battleground.
Satanism is an Ideology That Has Already
Been Defeated
We need to bear in mind the Satanists' own views when considering
the threat posed by it. When Satanists are asked how many
of them there are, they claim to have large numbers of followers,
because there are many people who actually live by the tenets
of Satanism without being aware of the fact. In a way, that
is actually the case. Many people, consciously or unconsciously,
share the views of the Satanists. That is because, refusing
to listen to the voice of one's conscience, or to live by
proper morality, therefore following one's own desires, is
the same as obeying the commands of the Devil. When one considers
all the destruction caused by Satanists up to the present
day, it is quite clear in what a terrible state a society
consisting of such people is going to end up to be.
The claim that man is a species of animal, on which Satanism
is founded, is utter nonsense. Mankind did not come into being
as the result of blind chance. The Creator of mankind, and
of the order and splendor of the entire universe, is the infinitely
powerful, superior and All-Wise God, who has no weaknesses
of any kind. He created man with the ability to think and
reason, to distinguish between right and wrong, and also with
a responsibility towards his Creator. Just as each individual's
ego direct him towards evil, so his conscience protects him
from it, and commands him to turn away from it. It is man's
duty to listen to the voice of his conscience, not to his
ego and adopt the kind of morality that is pleasing to God.
That morality will not only allow the individual concerned,
and the society in which he lives, to enjoy a peaceful and
secure existence, but will also, by the will of God, lead
to the sublimest reward in the hereafter.
One important fact that must not be lost sight of is that
the life Satan offers, which he dresses up to appear so very
attractive, is mere deception. Satan may make all kinds of
promises about the possibilities of the life of this world,
and may try to turn people away form the true path, yet, it
must not be forgotten that the road he beckons man to follow
will only lead to ultimate destruction for those who take
it. That is because Satan and his followers have already been
defeated. As God explains in a verse:
… What they call on is an arrogant Satan
whom God has cursed. He said, "I will take a certain fixed
proportion of Your servants. I will lead them astray and fill
them with false hopes. I will command them and they will cut
off cattle's ears. I will command them and they will change
God's creation." Anyone who takes the Devil as his protector
in place of God has clearly lost everything. (Qur'an, 4: 117-119)
DEVIANT SECTS OFFER OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE
The People's Temple, founded under
the leadership of Jim Jones in the 1970s, has gone down
in history as the cult responsible for the worst mass
suicide ever. More than 900 people, including children,
killed themselves by ingesting poison. |
We have already discussed in earlier chapters the existence
in a number of countries of the world, and especially the
United States, of superstitious cults that adhere to deviant
belief-systems, and how such groups engage in acts of terror.
These mystical groups destroy the order of society, encourage
nations towards violence, and lead to killings and even suicides.
Some of the best-known of these are: David Koresh and his
followers who committed mass suicide, the Heaven's Gate cult
who did the same, and the Aum Shinrikyo cult who harmed hundreds
of people by releasing poison gas into the Japanese underground
transit system.
In addition to these, however, every day in America are attacks
perpetrated by unknown groups as well as mass suicide. The
worst mass suicide so far was that of "The People's Temple"
cult.
Established at the end of the 1970s, under
the leadership of Jim Jones, this cult lived isolated from
the rest of the world in a forest area in Southern America.
Following a number of complaints, in 1978, US Congressman
Leo Ryan visited the Jonestown area on a fact-finding mission.
As Ryan was leaving Jonestown, 18 temple members who wanted
to leave the cult tried to accompany him, at which point violence
erupted. Cult members opened fire on those who attempted to
leave it. Congressman Ryan, three journalists, and one of
the departing members were killed. Eleven people were injured.
A few hours after that incident, the leader of the cult ordered
their members to commit mass suicide by drinking potassium
cyanide. Children died first; babies were killed by poison
squirted into their mouths with a syringe. Then more than
900 people, children included, poisoned themselves.43
David Koresh |
By the 1990s, however, the group that attracted the most
attention through mass death was the cult of David Koresh.
When security units wished to inspect a farm in Texas on February
28, 1993, cult members opened fire on them. A siege that would
last 51 days then ensued. When one member of the security
forces tried to get into the farm on the 51st day,
smoke suddenly began rising. The security forces announced
that David Koresh had set fire to the farm, and that booby
traps installed in various parts of it had turned the place
into an inferno, in which some 90 people burned to death.
Deviant cults again hit the headlines in 1997, when some
40 people wearing black T-shirts and sports-shoes committed
mass suicide in the north of San Diego. Aged between 26 and
72, they had killed themselves out of a belief that the Hale-Bopp
comet, which was then passing by the earth, would carry them
to a higher level of evolution. This is how their ideas were
expressed on their website:
Members of The Heaven's Gate cult
believed that the Hale-Bopp comet would carry them to
a higher stage of evolution, based on which they committed
suicide in 1997. Below is the leader of the group, Bonnie
Lu Trusdale. |
The joy is that our Older Member in the
Evolutionary Level above human has made it clear to us that
Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker" we've been waiting for.
… Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally
coming to conclusion "graduation" from the Human Evolutionary
Level. We are happily prepared to leave "this world" and go
with Ti's crew. (Ti refers to Bonnie Lu Trusdale a cofounder
of the cult who died of cancer in 1985)44
These accounts may seem to have very little to do with the
lives of most people who are reading this book. Yet, nobody
should be deceived by that fact as we have only considered
three examples in detail. A large number of deviant cults
and organizations are influencing young people in many countries
of the world. The fact that some people regard these movements
as being far removed from themselves does not mean that they
are not causing terrible harm to individuals and to society
as a whole. On the contrary, they reveal the different forms
the strife of the Antichrist can take and how widespread it
actually is.
The Japanese Cult's Underground Attack
The harm that such cults cause for the lives
and property of their members is by no means the only threat
they pose. The deviant ideas and lifestyles promoted by these
cults also damage the very fabric of society. From time to
time, some of them organize attacks directly aimed at the
civilian population. One recent example of this was the Japanese
cult Aum Shinrikyo, and its release of poison gas into a Tokyo
metro station. The cult was also held responsible for a similar
gas attack in Matsumoto near Tokyo, in which seven people
died and 144 were injured.
According to the teachings of the leader of the cult, Shoko
Asahara, a person can only cleanse his soul by killing. World
domination is only possible by implementing the violence that
he teaches his followers. Acts that normal people would regard
as cold-blooded, are for the members of the cult true examples
of morality.
The first target of the attacks, which began in 1994, were
the judges who had filed charges against the cult and lived
in accommodations provided by the Ministry of Justice . The
first attack resulted in seven deaths. At the same time, the
cult had begun the construction of a 70-ton capacity sarin
gas production facility, on the orders of Asahara, who also
instructed that 1,000 automatic rifles and a million bullets
be manufactured. With the help of Russian experts hired by
the cult, there were also efforts being made to construct
a kind of nuclear weapon. Also within Asahara's sphere of
activities were kidnappings and murder, especially of lawyers
and public prosecutors opposed to the cult's activities.
Members of the Aum sect, who believe
that man can only cleanse his soul by killing, were responsible
for the deaths of 12 people, and thousands of others injured,
when they released poison sarin gas into the Tokyo underground
transit system. |
The attack on the underground system resulted in a much more
severe reaction against the cult. Thousands of commuters on
their way to work were affected. Twelve people died and more
than 5,000 received treatment in hospital, and the attack
became a terrifying example of the threat such groups now
pose to the public.
As we have seen from the above examples, any kind of immorality
is to be expected from groups that develop their own beliefs
far removed from the morality of religion. The members of
such organizations are wholly capable of any kind of deviance,
from drug abuse to theft, and from kidnapping to torture,
though they often only end up in bringing an end to their
own lives.
One must never forget that it should come as no surprise
that people who do not believe in God, have no fear of Him,
and refuse to recognize true morality, engage in such acts
of violence. That is because, they do not believe they will
have to account for their deeds, nor that they will receive
their just due in the Hereafter. In addition, they would probably
adopt entirely inappropriate or false beliefs on the subject
of life after death, all in accordance with their desires.
The only true path however, is that revealed by God to His
servants. Anyone who knows of the religion of God, and lives
by it, is moderate and well-balanced. Furthermore, in the
Qur'an, God has commanded man to think and use his reason.
It is thus impossible for true believers to get caught-up
in any belief system without listening to their consciences
and employing their powers of reasoning. The faithful act
in accordance with the dictates of their conscience at every
moment in their lives, and behave reasonably. That, in turn,
protects them from all forms of immorality and perversion.
True believers are those who stay firmly rooted on the path
revealed by God. It is clear, however, that such cults and
organizations have long since turned away from that path.
There is no question that the acts of violence and terror
we have been considering are not the only manifestations of
terror in the world today. Very many terrorist organizations
in a great many countries have for many years been spreading
fear, terror, as well as leading to the deaths of many innocent
people. These include the IRA, which for many years has been
a major thorn in the side of the government of Great Britain;
ETA in the Basque region of Spain, ASALA, the Armenian terrorist
organization which for many years attacked Turkish diplomats
serving abroad, and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Although
they all have different ideological motives, all terrorist
groups and people who support the use of violence, whether
listed here or not, and whether they are aware of the fact
or not, agree on one thing. That is, the rejection of religion.
Whatever their ideology and world-view may be, the true reason
why anyone turns to anarchy and violence is that they lack
any beliefs and conscience to prevent them from doing so. |
