I am writing this as a response to Raj Masa and her video that was a response to this blog. She talks about growing up and being persecuted because of being a Muslim. I am sorry for the bullying she experienced. When a person is traumatized their mind creates an Auto-Appraiser which constantly scans their environment for anything that could recreate that trauma. When they get re-traumatized they enter a refractory state. I don’t intend to traumatize her but I would like to show her how my philosophy might give her some tools of self-awareness and transformation.
She thinks of herself as a Muslim. This means that he invisible Sense of Self (which is invisible) has been expanded to include Islam into her identity. What we find is that if this process is unconscious it is also meaningless. Unless this process is conscious and guided by Reason it is invalid. Because of how we define ourselves every event and word has negative or positive survival data for us which then creates an emotional state.
I don’t think of her as a Muslim. Furthermore, Muslims wouldn’t consider her a real Muslim. I would bet money that I know more about Islam than she does. I don’t know if she was born Muslim. I suspect that she might be NOI which conceives of Allah as a black man, which is a heresy punishable by death. I doubt that she had her clitoris cut off as a child so that she wouldn’t grow up to become a sharmouta. To a real Muslim she would be considered a Taqfiri and her soul should be saved with Honor Killing and sending it back to Allah. She thinks of herself as Muslim and is therefore defensive of Islam. But I would bet she knows almost nothing about it.
I was born and raised Jehovah’s Witness. I investigated them and all religions. I hate the organization. I wasted my time being a JW. I think their philosophy is a pleasant kind of insidious evil. I currently consider myself a Jnana Guru, a Cohanim Rabbi, and a Christian Mystic as well as a Taoist and a few other things. I arrived at that conclusion through analysis and introspection. I was persecuted for being a Jehovah’s Witness but I was more victimized and harmed by the JW’s themselves and my family. I was robbed of my future, my family, and my friends by a stupid thought herd. I was never persecuted by God and so I never turned my back on God. I worship the God of Reason, Intelligence, and Life.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called “CLICK” it was about how people form a singular sense of self and a feeling of “Shared Fate”. The single biggest factor in this feeling was “Shared Suffering”. As a child you were persecuted because you were Muslim. Because of the Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies you felt that Islam also suffered with you. But Islam isn’t a person, it is a philosophy. It is an ideology. While I sympathize with you I don’t sympathize with Islam. I understand Islam.
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