Is the ISLAM a lifeline for the Woke West? (Update, companion piece)

By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co

I write my reflections from a Western perspective while I myself am not religious and usually deviate strongly from any groupthink. I grant everyone that freedom.

Here in the West we struggle with ourselves and blame others. After a few centuries of colonialism and slavery, we have turned to legalized robbery with foreign interference. If we don’t get our way, we provide regime change up to and including war.

Why is it that so many people in the world live in poverty, starve and flee? Isn’t this simply the result of a few centuries of Western piracy. How strange then, that this same west has now become woke and flooded with immigration from the countries plundered by the west.

What on earth has become of the west?

The west has made huge leaps through the industrial revolutions. Inventions like electricity, the light bulb, the airplane, the steam engine, the computer, the video camera, the telephone and the Internet have made a huge difference in our world.

Unfortunately, this did come at a cost to both ordinary Westerners and non-Western countries, because these innovations needed wealth that someone had to pay for. The world’s current financial system is also an invention of Western ingenuity, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

You would think that now we would all have to work less and enjoy life more, but that is not the case. No matter how much money you have, it is worth less and less and never enough. While the middle class is a lot more prosperous than the underclass, they are actually in the same boat.

We are all getting older, but not healthier. The pharmaceutical industry cannot earn from healthy people. Just like the military industrial complex can’t earn anything without war. The world has become more and more about money. Rich people want to make bigger profits.

This state of affairs is only possible if people don’t think too much and stay in the game. People should not have too much free time, they should work for their money and existence. People should not become conscious, they should only know what they need to survive.

The Western elite has removed an important obstacle, which is faith, Christianity. When the church is in charge, people do not listen to the government and “their scientists”. A secularized society is much easier to bend and play apart.

However, with the loss of meaning, the West has become more afraid of death. Sick minds now think everything is engineerable. Genetic manipulation of food, animals and even humans seems to be the new normal. Abortion, euthanasia and organ donation on demand. All for charity.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll. The world is now awash in sex as if our lives depend on it. It seems like there are more and more pedophiles who want to normalize their behavior. The world has become sex addicted and looks wistfully at the applications of robots and virtual reality.

Eight-year-old children are being taught about masturbation, homosexuality and gender identity because the woke West considers it more important than language and math. What I am describing is a tip of the iceberg, because the west has totally lost its way. However, the west does not recognize its own dementia.

The few who now recognize that everything in the west is a lie from A to Z are censored, ignored, taken for fools and if they become really troublesome simply murdered. The West is an empire in decline, morally bankrupt and subject to cognitive dissonance.

The Olympics showed for the umpteenth time how satanic the culture has become. Ordinary people don’t see it and don’t want to see it. At the top are only followers who fear for their jobs, homes and sanctimonious families. The elite in the background think they have succeeded.

Then Islam comes to the West to fill a gap.

Not that Islam likes to come to such a hostile environment, but it comes along with those moving west. At first, Islam stays within its own ranks, but meaning-seeking Westerners discover and embrace Islam. Christianity has become just as woke and Islam is a breath of fresh air.

Where in Christianity man is depraved, Islam teaches that man can be proud. Islam is completely different from many Western things that make us sick. Of course, Western governments don’t want to know about that. People were not meant to follow a different view.

The time-honored game of divide and conquer continues to be used. Christians and Muslims are to be pitted against each other. Jews, Christians and Muslims must hate each other. Peoples who have been able to live together for centuries despite different religions must be played apart.

In the West, Islam is routinely demonized, just as Russia, China and everything else that is disagreeable to the West are demonized. And people do not think, they continue to believe these stupid stories. People don’t see through that divide and conquer game.

Yet there are many who convert and seek refuge in Islam. Very understandable when we see how much the West has lost its sense of purpose. Where Muslims still live together and talk to each other, the Westerner has become an individual who is afraid of no longer belonging to the group.

So is Islam the solution?

The Westerners I talk to usually abhor Islam. I understand that in principle they have nothing or little against Muslims, but believe that nothing good can come from Islam. They hear of Sharia law, see the burkas and headscarves on women and fear the excesses of Daesh, for example.

Extremists we see in every religion, but they are minorities who often unfairly hijack that religion for their own power and ideals and are not actually recognized by that religion. Hooligans in the stands at a soccer game have nothing to do with soccer either. They are an unwanted cancer.

No God would ever want to enforce autocratic rule, only humans do that. God is love and as humans you can choose that. People should not measure up to each other and everyone is free to choose what they believe in. In that freedom, every person will eventually come to God. There is no other way.

The commandments of religions do often pose a problem in this sense. Religions are all built on a foundation of universal values. For example, having respect for life and taking responsibility for one’s own actions. But people have built their own ideological castles on that foundation. Examples: If God had wanted women to walk around the Earth wearing headscarves, he would have had them born that way anyway. If men cannot keep their hands to themselves at the sight of women’s full beauty, then perhaps they should do better in the teachings of their religion.

A free spirit sees this and does not run with the herd like a sheep. Fortunately, many Muslim women understand this and do not participate in such nonsensical body coverings. If there is a problem, it lies with men. At the same time, it is the way it is now and apparently it takes time for all of us to become aware.

It would be a shame if Islam strays as much as Christianity, but just as much a shame if Islam does not rid itself of man-made frills. The same is true of Judaism. To circumcise a child is to play before God. God made the child this way, who do you think you are that it should be otherwise?

Religion is meaning and at the same time a limitation. The foundation of universal values is incredibly important to any civilization. The human edifice on top of it desecrates our connection to God. Actually, it is extremely sad to see how much man is still lost. Even in religions.

So how do we become conscious beings?

I see Islam as a good catalyst for expanding consciousness. I would never follow a religion myself, but I see the fact that Islam has established itself in the West as an opportunity for the West to be able to become more conscious. Islam opposes much of what goes wrong in the west.

Which people opposed the vaccinations that were supposedly so good? Which people are still unified and in conversation with each other? Which people are critical of the so-called social engineering of life? Think for yourself and ask such questions yourself.

Sufism is the mystical teaching that developed from the beginning within Islam. The wisdom of the Sufis is great and transcends religion, so to speak. Every child would benefit tremendously from an upbringing and education based on these universal values. Stripped of all burdensome frills, though.

The Westerner who opposes Islam does not understand what it is all about. The Westerner who hates Islam does not understand that he has been programmed. We find the extremists everywhere, in religions, in governments, in science and on soccer fields. And even those extremists are used.

Money can buy anything. Color revolutions. Rebellions. Religious extremists. Those extremists are performers, just as so many politicians are performers. Often those performers/implementers themselves don’t even realize they are being used. Only when the eyes of the masses open, then everything can become different.

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I posted a companion piece to Nico’s essay here:

https://sovereignista.com/2024/10/21/dont-let-them-change-the-subject/