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I had
stopped participating in the debate because of
the very reasons that described. But
unfortunately he ishimself saying things that
have nothing to do with facts. Rashid says
This
conflict of dualities, all due to one's
conditioning, makes organized religion the
greatest butcher that history has ever known.
More people have been killed in the name of
God than one can attribute to all the human
calamities and natural disasters put together
since time began. I am sending here a piece
that I had written some time back.
Atheism and Violence
The fact that followers of almost all the big
religions have engaged in wars and other forms
of extreme violence, either for justifiable or
unjustifiable reasons, often not in conformity
with the highest teachings of their respective
religions, has often been used by atheists as
a stick to beat religion. But the truth is
that atheists of various kinds have indulged
even in more cruel pogroms and wars. Mao’s
China witnessed killing of millions of people.
In the Communist Russia, the story has been no
different. Millions of men, women and children
lost their lives in the short history of
Soviet Union. In the Second World War, China
and Russia lost more than 20 million people.
Russia invaded Afghanistan and more than half
a million Afghans lost their lives in the
resistance movement against the Soviet army.
Russia’s war against Chechen rebels too has
resulted in the death of more than one hundred
thousands of people. Even the violence caused
by many Christian countries like America and
Britain in the Twentieth Century may be
attributed to atheism, because many of the
rulers though born in Christian families have
had atheistic inclinations. In fact the
international violence increased with the rise
of the atheistic secularism. Most of the more
than 240 million deaths in the twentieth
Century may be attributed to the rise of
atheistic ideologies of Secularism and
Economic Fundamentalism including Capitalism
and Socialism.
British secularists entered Australia, killed
hundreds of thousands of aborigines there and
occupied their country forever. “Report
details crimes against Aborigines” by Brett
Stone, 7 September 1999, describes gory details
of the extermination of aborigines. It says:
“The genocidal practices perpetrated against
Australian Aborigines were the outcome of
policies adopted and implemented by all
Australian governments from British settlement
in 1788 until the present…..Aborigines were
forced out of their traditional homes, hunted
like wild animals, poisoned or shot, and
confined to the harshest and most desolate
climes. The effect of British settlement upon
these people led to near extinction within 120
years….Even though no official figures exist,
estimates of the Aboriginal population in 1788
range between 250,000 and 750,000. By 1911 the
number was 31,000…..….Aboriginal children were
abducted for use in forced labour, women were
raped and tortured and given poisoned flour, and
the men were shot…Between 1829 and 1834, an
appointed conciliator, George Robinson,
collected the surviving remnants: 123 people
whom were then settled on Flinders Island. By
1835, between 3,000 and 4,000 Aborigines were
dead….Between 1824 and 1908 approximately 10,000
Aborigines were murdered in the Colony of
Queensland. “Considered ‘wild animals',
‘vermin', ‘scarcely human', ‘hideous to
humanity', ‘loathsome' and a ‘nuisance', they
were fair game for white
‘sportsmen'….…Aboriginal people met him
(Archibald Meston) “like hunted wild beasts,
having lived for years in a state of absolute
terror”. His prescription for their salvation
lay in
“strict and absolute isolation from all
whites, from predators who, in no
particular order, wanted to kill them, take
their women, sell them grog or opium”. Needless
to say, none of the perpetrators of the
slaughter were made to answer for their
actions.”
Similarly brutal atrocities were reserved for
native Americans who were killed in thousands by
Europeans and their country permanently
occupied. A website, Ken Hope's Home Page says,
“…De Soto is described by a contemporary as
"fond of the sport of killing Indians." Natives
are captured in the hundreds and forced to march
in chains, carrying stores. He kidnaps a native
chief known as Queen Cofitachequi, and plunders
a case of worthless mussel pearls from her. …By
now, epidemics brought by Europeans have killed
almost half of the native population of Mexico.
According to historians (See From Revolution to
Reconstruction on Net), in 1600 AD, there were
about 40 million people living in the Western
Hemisphere that now forms North America. In the
region that forms the US now, estimates say that
up to 18 million native Indians lived. Majority
of them was killed either in numerous wars and
skirmishes with Europeans or through Chicken Pox
and other epidemics brought by them.“
If we study the wars and civil wars in the last
159 years, we find more than half od the total
number of people killed by the
atheists/secularists.
Wars in last 150 years
1860-65: American civil war (360,000)
1886-1908: Belgium-Congo Free State (3 million)
1899-02: British-Boer war (100,000)
1904: Germany Vs Namibia (65,000)
1904-05: Japan Vs Russia (150,000)
1910-20: Mexican revolution (250,000)
1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)
1911-12: Italian-Ottoman war (20,000)
1912-13: Balkan wars (150,000)
1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians
(1.2 million)
1914-18: World War I (8 million)
1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
1928-37: Chinese civil war (2 million)
1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)
1934: Mao's Long March (170,000)
1936: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (200,000)
1936-37: Stalin's purges (13 million)
1936-39: Spanish civil war (600,000)
1939-45:
World War II (55 million) including
holocaust and Chinese revolution
1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
1946-49: Greek civil war (50,000)
1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1
million)
1948-1973: Arab-Israeli wars (70,000)
1948-: Kashmir's civil war (40,000)
1949-: Indian Muslims Vs Hindus (20,000)
1950-53: Korean war (4 million)
1954-62: French-Algerian war (1 million)
1958-61: Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (30 million)
1960-90: South Africa Vs Africa National
Congress (?)
1961-2003: Kurds Vs Iraq (180,000)
1962-75: Mozambique Frelimo Vs Portugal (?)
1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
1965: second India-Pakistan war over Kashmir
1965-66: Indonesian civil war (200,000)
1966-69: Mao's "Cultural Revolution" (11
million)
1966-: Colombia's civil war (31,000)
1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
1968-80: Rhodesia's civil war (?)
1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
1969-02: IRA - Northern Ireland's civil war
(2,000)
1969-79: Francisco Macias Nguema, Equatorial
Guinea (50,000)
1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)
1972-: Philippines Vs Muslim separatists
(120,000)
1972: Burundi's civil war (300,000)
1972-79: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe's civil war (30,000)
1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)
1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)
1975-90: civil war in Lebanon (40,000)
1975-87: Laos' civil war (184,000)
1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
1976-83: Argentina's military regime (20,000
1976-93: Mozambique's civil war (900,000)
1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war
(600,000)
1976-: Indonesia-Aceh (GAM) civil war (12,000)
1979: Vietnam-China war (30,000)
1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
(1.3 million)
1980-88: Iraq-Iran war (1 million)
1980-92: Sendero Luminoso - Peru's civil war
(69,000)
1980-92: El Salvador's civil war (100,000)
1980-99: Kurds Vs Turkey (35,000)
1982-90: Hussein Habre, Chad (40,000)
1983-2002: Sri Lanka's civil war (64,000)
1983-2002: Sudanese civil war (2 million)
1987-: Palestinian Intifada (4,500)
1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war (400,000)
1988-2004: Somalia's civil war (550,000)
1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)
1989-: Uganda Vs Lord's Resistance Army (30,000)
1991: Gulf War - large coalition against Iraq to
liberate Kuwait (85,000)
1991-97: Congo's civil war (800,000)
1991-2000: Sierra Leone's civil war (200,000)
1991-: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)
1991-94: Armenia-Azerbaijan war (35,000)
1992-96: Tajikstan's civil war war (50,000)
1992-96: Yugoslavia's civil war (200,000)
1992-99: Algerian civil war (150,000)
1993-97: Congo Brazzaville's civil war (100,000)
1993-: Burundi's civil war (200,000)
1994: Rwanda's civil war (900,000)
1995-: Pakistani Sunnis Vs Shiites (1,300)
1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal (10,000)
1998-: Congo/Zaire's war - Rwanda and Uganda Vs
Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia (3.8 million)
1998-2000: Ethiopia-Eritrea war (75,000)
1999: Kosovo's liberation war - NATO Vs Serbia
(2,000)
2001: Afghanistan's liberation war - USA & UK Vs
Taliban (25,000)
2002-: Cote d'Ivoire's civil war (1,000)
2003: Iraq's liberation war - USA, UK and
Australia Vs Saddam Hussein (14,000)
2003-: Sudan Vs Darfur (70,000)
2003-: Iraq's civil war (100,000)
Apart from the wars, the rise of Secular agenda
in the world at the behest of the forces of
fundamentalism has led to widespread chaos in
the family and social level.
It has led to the development of a strange kind
of world, which appears to be paradise from
outside, but as one enters it, one finds nothing
but hell. We are living in a world where,
thanks to the designs of merchants, immorality
reigns. Where it is easier to be bad than good.
Where wearing a scarf is banned and baring the
body is promoted. Where being a wife or husband
is outdated and being a bed partner is
smartness. Where piety is ridiculed and
impudence glorified. Where prosperity is
considered to be the synonym of peace, education
that of knowledge and entertainment that of
happiness. Where condoms are presented as
wonderful little bags possessing everything
required for a wholesome life. We are living in
a world where children are aborted in the name
of women’s rights. Where, murderers and rapists
are protected in the name of ‘right to life’.
Where, criminals are given all amenities of life
in the name of human rights. Where, sexual
perverts receive all kinds of sympathy and
attention. Where those talking of righteousness
in life are condemned as “bloody moralists”.
Where, the media do everything to change the
choices of the people, but if some reformer
tries to warn them against evils, he is dubbed
as a retrogressive, who has no business to teach
lessons of good behaviour to the people.
Alcohol, smoking, gambling and unrestrained-sex
are considered to be the biggest symbols of
liberty, brothels, beaches, bars and casinos the
citadels of “freedom”. One third of the total
population of the world smokes, millions of
people take drugs, millions drink and gamble and
a sizeable percentage indulges in all forms of
unhealthy sexual behaviour, including
promiscuity, homosexuality, purchased sex, etc.
In short, we are inhabitants of a world where
the biggest virtue is to openly indulge in the
biggest sin; and the biggest sin is to try to
exhibit virtuousness.
The globe of New World Order is
therefore rapidly developing into nothing but a
fireball of chaos. It is hardly
surprising then that
·
More than 1 million people are
murdered every year. (More than 240 million
people lost lives in wars in the last century)
·
More than 2 million people commit
suicides
·
More than 5 million people die of
sex related diseases (more than 20 million have
died of AIDS in recent years)
·
More than 2.2 million die of
alcohol related problems
·
More than 5 million die of
smoking related problems
·
More than 70 million children are
not allowed to take birth and are aborted.
The deaths due to poverty and
unhygienic conditions are also there, but for
these, it is ignorance, not knowledge that is to
be blamed. They occur in the poor and
undeveloped areas and are not the result of the
designs of human minds, though the people of the
area particularly the leadership has to share
the blame. The above-given are however the
figures related to damages consequent upon the
deliberate acceptance of certain concepts of
individual freedom and the deliberate promotion
of a legal, social and economic system that
supports the interests of the economic
fundamentalists. Apart from death, other
diseases, addictions, family disintegration,
exploitation of men, women and children are
other dangerous consequences of economic
fundamentalism in the developed regions of the
world. So
* More than a hundred million
suffer from alcohol related illnesses
* More than 2000 millions smoke
·
Hundreds of millions indulge in
gambling. 500 million are now using Internet
alone for gambling. (In US alone, 20 millions
show some signs of gambling addiction and 2
million divorces had gambling as a significant
factor.)
·
More than 100 million suffer from
sex transmitted diseases (42 million from
HIV/AIDS)
·
Tens of millions of women are in
prostitution and other sex related businesses
(more than one million Americans alone have
served as prostitutes)
·
More than 1.2 million of children
are exploited annually in prostitution and other
sex trades
·
More than 800 million watch
pornography
·
Millions of homes are broken
every year
·
Millions of women are raped every
year; in many Western countries one tenth to
half of all women have been raped (The total
number of women who have been raped at least
once is in hundreds of millions)
·
Sexual abuse of children is on
the rise all over the world; in many Western
countries up to one third of all people have
been sexually abused in their childhood
·
Drug addiction is also
persistent; tens of millions of people are
addicted of harmful drugs
·
Civil wars, wars and riots for
various reasons are also not showing any
remarkable decline, consuming thousands of lives
every year
·
Economic disparity between different countries
and people of the world and among the people of
the same countries is continuously growing;
poverty may be on the decline but relative
poverty is showing steep rise.
I hope that Islam-bashing by the
Atheists does not go unchallenged. And the best
way to defend is often the counterattack.
Dr Javed Jamil
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