I want to thank Howard Bloom for his generosity in allowing us to put up a chapter from his latest book Mohammed Code. I also want to thank Yitzhaq Hayut-man a friend and colleague for presenting this opportunity.
Howard Bloom – The Struggle For Europe-The MOHAMMED CODE
“Dear youth of Islam everywhere, … dear knights of Mohammed the Conqueror, … let your supplies be continuous so that you may… [continue] fighting steadfastly the treacherous Romans ….”
Osama bin Laden, 2004 [749]
Does Islam really stand a chance of finally achieving its ancient aim of taking Europe? Could it ever possibly reach top predator status in England, France, Germany and the rest of the European nations? Memes, genes, and superorganisms use a host of strategies to expand their sway. Some are conscious. Many more are unconscious. Among those that straddle the line between consciousness and invisibility are reproductive strategies, strategies that show up in different cultural attitudes toward sex, toward the role of women, and toward socially acceptable— or socially required— family size.
Reproductive strategies came to the surface in 2004 when conservatives in the US looked at demographic figures and realized that they were winning the battle for the American mass mind in part by out-reproducing their rivals, liberals. [750] Reproductive strategies came to the surface in 2005 when mainstream Jews realized that the Jewish population of the world, a population that’s already very small, is growing even smaller. One rabbi suggested a new mainstream Jewish answer— larger families with more kids [751]. But the most telling war of reproductive strategies in the 21st century is the one between dar el Harb and dar el Islam [752]— the home of War, your home, and the home of Islam.
A dedicated Muslim, Ali Mazrui, Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and writer and host of the nine-part PBS series The Africans, [753] says that, “When Islamic fundamentalism is combined with the zeal and dedication of jihad… the culture of procreation merges with the culture of combat.” What does he mean? “Fundamentalist Muslim families…,” he explains, “resort to having more and more children as a strategy for ‘multiplying in the name of Allah.’” Then Mazrui gets down to brass tacks. “Procreation itself,” he says in words whose like we’ve heard from him before, “can be counted as a form of jihad.”
That jihad— that war of the womb— gains from a simple rule: “If the father is Arab, the child is Arab, regardless of race or ethnic origins of the mother.” [754] And if the father is a Muslim, so is his child. Mazrui calls the resulting Islamic reproductive approach “competitive procreation.” [755]
Then Mazrui gives an example of how effective “competitive procreation” can be. “Islam originally arrived in Africa as a religion on the run,” he reports. “The first Muslim refugees arrived in Ethiopia early in the seventh century AD, fleeing from persecution in polytheistic Arabia. The refugees presumably decided that intermarrying with Ethiopians and having large families was a way to strengthen their kinship ties in the Horn of Africa, and to expand their local Muslim communities in exile.” [756] Thus, Mazrui says, began “Islam’s culture of procreation.” [757]
Then things turned nasty. “The second significant arrival of Islam in Africa,” he says, “occurred in Egypt in AD 639. This time the Arabs arrived as conquerors rather than as refugees. But how was the Egyptian population not only converted to another religion (Islamization), but also transformed into Arabs (Arabization) over the centuries? How was this Arabization accomplished in the rest of North Africa and in much of the Nile Valley as well?” Good question. And Mazrui is kind enough to answer it. “Historically,” he writes, “the culture of procreation among the conquering Arabs reinforced their jihad culture of combat. North Africa and much of the Nile Valley were Arabized as much by Arab intermarriage as by Arab conquests. The patrilineal system of the Arabs was part of their population policy, destined to transform a continent and affect the world. … By the end of the twentieth century, half the population of Africa was professing Islam.” [758]
Just in case he hasn’t gotten his message across, Mazrui repeats that, “Preference for large families… was often deeply rooted in… the imperative of jihad.” [759] And that preference often continues, he says, “when the family is middle class” [760]. Remember, Mazrui is a Muslim whose works frequently claim that Islam is a victim of imperialism, not an aggressor. So he’s skipped over the way the “Islamizers” and “Arabizers” used what the Quran calls “those whom thy right hand possesses” [761] to increase the numbers of the faithful. He neglects rape, forced sex with slave girls, and forced sex with female prisoners. Mazrui also fails to explain what the modern Arab Muslims of the northern Sudan intend to do when, as he reports, they head South to the black portion of the country, Darfur— the land of Muslim raids and Muslim rape— saying, “I am going south— to bring into the world 40 more Arabs before I die!” [762] Despite these omissions, Mazrui is telling you and me that one of militant Islam’s goals is to win more of the world by out-reproducing us.
How does this apply to Europe? The fact is that Europe’s Muslim population is growing at three times the rate of the non-Muslim population. [763] And Europe’s indigenous population is in a nosedive. [764] Writes Timothy M. Savage, division chief in the Office of European Analysis at the US Department of State, “By 2015, Europe’s Muslim population is expected to double, whereas Europe’s non-Muslim population is projected to fall by at least 3.5 percent. … Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century.” [765]
Is this demographic shift an accident? Actually, it’s an old biological pattern. One that modern militant Islam has turned from an instinctual response to an overt power ploy. It’s the battle of opposing reproductive strategies that population biologists call “r” and “K” [766]. The r reproductive strategy involves having lots of kids and gambling their lives… often in anticipation of violence [767]. R’s opposite, the k strategy [768] relies on having just a few kids, investing in them heavily [772]… and to human beings. In fact, these reproductive tactics sometimes shape the very foundations of human culture.
The battle in America between pro-abortion and anti-abortion forces, for example, is a battle between opposing reproductive strategies. More to the point are the reproductive strategies that may help militant Islam achieve its ancient goal of returning “to Europe as a conqueror and victor.” [773]
The Muslim population explosion is giving Islam’s European community a “youth bulge,” a disproportionate number of young. A handful of the leaders of Europe’s roughly fifteen million [774] Muslims very openly want to use these youths to pick up where the conquerors of Constantinople left off. Promises London’s Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohamed about the land in which he lives, Britain, “We will remodel this country in an Islamic image. We will replace the Bible with the Quran.” [775]
Surely Bakri Mohamed’s extremist form of Islam doesn’t have a prayer of digesting Britain. Or does it? The British cleric is not just a crank caterwauling in the wilderness. Bakri Mohamed’s group, al-Muhajiroun [776] was an international organization. It reportedly had, “no fewer than 30 offices across Britain, with branches in France and throughout the Middle East.” [777] The group also had “offices across the developed world— in Kuwait, France, South Africa, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Mauritius, Syria and Algeria.” [778]
What’s more, Bakri Mohamed’s Al-Muhajiroun has organized yearly celebrations of the Islamic triumph of 9/ 11 in England, and has put together a conference in London called “The Choice Is In Your Hands: Either You’re With the Muslims or with the Infidels.” Just in case Bakri Mohammed’s calls for jihad against unbelievers fail to wipe false beliefs like yours and mine off the face of Allah’s earth, the Sheikh is practicing the if-we-can’t-beat-them-we’ll-outpopulate-them reproductive strategy, the r strategy, the “culture of procreation [that] merges with combat.” [779]. He has seven children. [780]
No wonder a 1997 study of church-goers in London predicted that Islam would become the number one religion in Britain by 2002, with more mosque-going believers than church-going Anglican Christian “idolaters.” [781] The prediction may have been too optimistic. Britain’s The Guardian suspects that the number of Muslims regularly attending religious services in Britain had outpaced the number of Anglicans showing up in church by 2001. [782] What’s more, the young men and women of European Islam are increasingly shedding their identification with the West. [783] Even if they were born in Europe… in fact, even if their parents were born in Europe, they are embracing a global Islamic identity. Timothy Savage calls this “re-Islamization” [784] and reports that it is “significantly more pronounced among younger Muslims.” One result: as of 2004 Europe’s young, middle class Muslims were reportedly more enthusiastic about signing on with radical and jihadist organizations than the youth in Islamic countries. [785] Or so says Malcolm Turnbull, director of the Menzies Research Centre in Australia. [786] Claims Turnbull, mosques in Hamburg, London, Marseilles, and even Montreal bring in more jihadist recruits “than any Saudi Madrassa.” [787]
Some of these recruits, in the words of Osama bin Laden [788] “are competing among themselves for fighting and killing you.” [789] The killer of Wall Street Journal reporter and peace activist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002 was born and raised by a middle class Muslim family in England. [790] The bombers of three subway trains and a bus in London in 2005 were also kids from solid, middle class Muslim homes. [791]
But more than population strategies are aiding the growth of militant Islam in Europe. When we’re in our teens and twenties, we have a powerful need for idealistic goals… goals in which we sacrifice ourselves for the higher purposes of a superorganism and for the poor and oppressed. Often those transcendent ideals contribute to the advancement of a multi-generational cause.
Peace is one good example of a multi-generational ideal in the West. The purity of Revolution roused the idealism of the young in China’s Cultural Revolution. And militant Islam offers one of the highest ideals a meme can present— the mission of saving the world, of liberating you and me so we can embrace the truth, of giving those of us who live in the darkness of unbelief the only freedom and light that counts, the freedom to live under the God-given laws of Shariah and the “complete system of life” of Islam. That’s a multi-generational project on a grand scale.
The result? In Holland, when two public figures whose views “offended Islam” were murdered— Pim Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh— The London Telegraph reports, “Lawyers, accountants, computer specialists, nurses, and businessmen” fled by the thousands, terrified that a jihad had erupted in their home country. [792] Some Dutch are afraid that their growing Muslim population will someday obliterate the country’s “polder” [793] system— its extraordinary mechanism for tolerance and pluralism. Meanwhile, a 2002 report from Holland’s Internal Security Service revealed that “one-fifth of the 32 state-sponsored Muslim grade schools received financial support from fundamentalist Islamic organizations.” [794] That’s not a high fraction. But then the Dutch television news program Nova reported that children in Holland’s Islamic schools were taught “to battle people until they acknowledge that Allah is the only God.’” [795] This helped generate a mass exodus.
Meanwhile, Germany is headquarters for a global network of radical Islamic organizations richly funded by Saudi Arabia, extremist organizations that have been entrenching themselves in the heart of Europe since the 1950s, when their leaders were expelled from countries like Egypt for their extremism. Under the cover of umbrella groups like the Saudi-funded Muslim World League and the Saudi-underwritten World Assembly of Muslim Youth, these groups have slowly made themselves the official spokespeople for Europe’s mainstream Islamic community.
In fact, these groups have smothered, repressed, outmaneuvered, and outspent more moderate groups. Highly prominent extremist organizations like The Islamic Society of Germany, the Islamic Center of Geneva, the Islamic Center of Munich, and the Aachen Islamic Center [796] meet frequently with Europe’s prime ministers, politicians, and the press. When they speak German, French, and English, they promote the notion that Islam is a religion of peace. But when they speak in Arabic and Turkish, they declare that “our youngsters… [will] go back to Islam and make jihad for the sake of Allah” and that their own role is to provide “a shield protecting our fellow citizens from assimilation into barbaric Europe.” [797]
In many of Germany’s Muslim schools, radical teachings are reportedly central to the curriculum. [798] In fact, Germany is so much a home to its militant population that the headquarters of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood— an extremist organization founded in 1928 [799]— is not in Damascus or Cairo. It’s in the German city of Aachen.
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Then there’s Belgium, home to 70 mosques and to 300 Islamic centers. Not all Belgian Muslims are radicals. Far from it. But the Intelligence Committee of the Belgian Parliament says that moderate Muslims are effectively gagged in cities like Brussels. According to a Belgian Intelligence Committee report, “the Saudi-backed Salafi movement has created a religious ‘state’ within Belgium. Activists operate their own ‘Islamic police’ to enforce Islamic rules… Group members are circulating videos of Osama bin Laden and have carried out paramilitary training and parachute jumps in the Ardennes.” [801] The Ardennes is the area of dense European forests through which the Germans invaded France in World War I and World War II. [802] Its mere mention can make those who know their history nervous. No wonder that as early as 2002, the Telegraph of London concluded that Belgium is “a launch pad for terrorists.” [803]
In these cases, a modernist, liberal Western meme is pitting itself against a militant Muslim meme that’s been on a winning streak far longer than the modern nations of Germany or Brussels [804] have existed. The question is which meme will win in the end. France may have given us a preview of European jihad in November 2005 thanks to an influx of North African Arab laborers and asylum-seekers who had large families, and whose children and grandchildren grew France’s Islamic population to five million by 2004. [805] In 300 [806] suburbs, towns and cities including Paris, Dijon, Marseilles, Toulouse, Rouen, Bordeaux, Avignon, Nice, Cannes, Nantes, Lille Saint-Dizier, [807] and Strasbourg, Islamic rioters— most of them Muslim youths born and raised in France— went on what the mayor of Acheres, one of the French suburbs under attack, called a “perfectly organized” [808] series of urban guerrilla-style arson attacks, shooting buckshot at police and using cars and motorcycles to spread flames from the resorts of France’s Mediterranean coast to the German border.
This was a high-tech uprising. Said Patrick Hamon, a spokesman for France’s national police, “Youths are communicating by cell phones or e-mails. They organize themselves, arrange meetings, [and] some prepare the Molotov cocktails.” [809] The participants in this Muslim World-Wide-Webbed rebellion barbecued a total of over 9,071 cars. [810] They torched two nursery schools in a single night, [811] burned a youth center, a police station, a film studio, shops, and a factory, torched an entire parking lot of cars, threw firebombs into ambulances waiting for emergency patients, and spread gas in the interior of a bus full of passengers, then lit the match.
To top it off, the makers of this possible sneak peek at Jihad 3.0 went online, using Arab-language websites like tajdeed.net and alsaha.com [812] to warn of more violence to come. Wrote one of the Internet warriors, who signed himself Rania, “Civil war is declared. There will no doubt be deaths. Unfortunately, we have to prepare.” Said another Web warrior, “We are going to destroy everything. Rest in peace, guys.” [813]
There were “copycat riots” in Brussels, Berlin, and Rotterdam. [814] And there were nearly simultaneous riots in Arhus, Denmark. Some say that these riots were not spontaneous imitations of France’s upheaval [815]. The outbursts were well-coordinated, and were fed instructions and encouragement by global jihadists half-a-planet away.
Meanwhile, the majority of Western news analysts said that the French disturbance had nothing to do with Islam and was by no means a Holy War. But according to reports from Paris, both tajdeed.net and alsaha.com called the mayhem in the streets of France, “a new jihad.” [816] This jihadist call was echoed on the streets, where, according to Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent Tom Hundley, writing from Paris, the rioters, “scuffled with police and set fire to cars while chanting, ‘The holy war has begun.’” [817] The strife went on for 21 days and nights. [818]
Islamic spokes-groups, reporters, and mainstream Western politicians tried to explain away the violence as the product of the standard Western litany of social sins— poverty, oppression, unemployment, and humiliation— all elements that undoubtedly came into play. The unemployment rate among France’s Muslims was a staggering 30%. [819] And the French Observatory Against Racism reported that it had sent 325 resumes to French employers, resumes with identical work experience and credentials, but with different names and places of origin. The result: the odds of getting a job if you had a name of North African origin were seriously stacked against you. Native Frenchman or French woman were five times as likely to be hired as you were. [820]
What’s more, there were strong voices of moderation in the French Islamic community. Reuters reported that “imams and mosque groups in the suburbs have called for calm” [821] and described, “the sight of imams and local Muslim leaders in the suburbs calming down angry teenagers who reject all other authority.” [822]
But not all this moderation was what it seemed. The Union of French Islamic Organizations issued a fatwa stating that the riots were in violation of Islam. Said the fatwa, “Aggression is forbidden by Islam according to the verse [Quran 2: 190]: ‘Begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.’” [823] This statement sounds peaceful. But it isn’t. It’s designed to mislead.
The quote that actually appears in the Quran’s Chapter 2 verse 190 reads, “Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors.” [824] The next sentence in the Quran is telling. It reads, “And slay them wherever ye catch them and turn them out from where they have turned you out.” [825] This is not an order for peace. It is an instruction for battle. And the restraint it calls for isn’t kindness toward the enemy. It’s a warning not to break the military rules of Islam— rules about details like how to divvy up the booty. The Union of French Islamic Organizations’ fatwa seemed to embody one of Islam’s basic strategies in war—” guile,” [826] dishonesty and surprise. Mohammed summed it up when he said “war is deceit.” [827] In other words, as Mohammed’s first biographer, Ibn Ishaq spelled out in great detail, jihad is made by carefully using lies. [828]
Intellectuals writing in Arabic agreed that the causes of the riots were joblessness and discrimination, not Islam. But these same intellectuals warned that the French riots could easily be repeated worldwide. Wrote an editorial writer in Iran’s daily newspaper Jomhouri-ye Eslami, ““ Discrimination is also rising in England, Germany, America, Canada, and many other Western countries.” [829] What Jomhouri-ye Eslami called “this disease” of discrimination against Muslims was eroding “the patience of the people who had for years suffered from the racist discrimination.” Discrimination and racism, added Jomhouri-ye Eslami, were turning a “quiet movement… to overt and violent rebellion.” [830] Al-Arabiya TV director Abd Al-Rahman al-Rashed warned that the violence, “will recur in the future, even if it calms down for some time.” [831]
A C-Span panel discussion convened by the Islamic group CAIR— The Council on American-Islamic Relations— warned against Arab bashing. Like so many others, its panelists said that only one factor had triggered the European disturbances— discrimination. But halfway around the world an Indian expert on Islamic activism from the South Asia Analysis Group told a different story. He said the riots had started spontaneously, then had been prodded along by three international extremist groups [832]: Hizb ut-Tahrir, which operates in 40 countries, Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, and Jamaat-ul-Fuqra, [833] a New-York-and-Pakistan-based jihadist group that gave the world the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, a middle-class kid born in London of a Jamaican father [834] who walked into a passenger plane with his explosives hidden in the tongue, lining, [835] and sole of his shoe. [836] (In 2002, Reid boarded American Airlines flight 63 from Paris to Miami, waited until the plane was in flight, lit a match, bent over in his passenger seat, and was about to light a triacetone triperoxide fuse protruding from his shoe’s tongue. A passenger screamed and the 6’4” Reid was wrestled to the floor by two flight attendants, doused with water passed cup by cup by passengers, and sedated by two doctors on the flight.) [837]
The South Asia Analysis Group expert who felt that far more than discrimination had triggered the French riots was B. Rahman, a former Indian cabinet member who the American news service UPI calls, “one of Delhi’s top security advisers and commentators on Islamic affairs.” The militant Islamic groups Hizb ut-Tahrir, Lashkar-e-Toiba, and Jamaat-ul-Fuqra, Rahman claimed, used their sleeper cells in France to pour oil on the flames. Meanwhile UPI added that the radical Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (the GSP) claimed credit for the rampage. The long-range goal of the organizations that took the lead in prolonging the French riots, said Rahman is, surprise, surprise— world rule… a global caliphate. [838]
In Washington, the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies set up a panel-discussion between three experts during the last days of the French riots. Like Rahman, the panelists asserted that the extremist Muslim European agenda was even more ambitious than mere Holy War. The speakers, Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy, and Stephen Steinlight, Fellow at the Center for immigration Studies, said those behind the riots were aiming for a short-term goal of “bantustans” in Europe— enclaves ruled by Islamic leaders and run according to Islamic holy law— shariah. In exchange for these Islamic micro-states on European soil, the Muslim leaders would keep the citizens in Islamic European communities from erupting in further violence. [839] The riots were allegedly being used as part of a belief-driven protection racket. They were part of a new strategy to take territory.
Said Krikorian, Gaffney, and Steinlight, these Muslim micro-states would be stepping stones to a grander goal— once again, a global caliphate. [840]
Is the notion of a global caliphate a Muslim-basher’s fantasy? When the French riots erupted, the publisher of a thoroughly Islamic, pro-Holy War website, Jihad Unspun, wrote bluntly that “global jihad is breaking out. …. How will we rebuild the Caliphate if we cannot work together? … Brothers and sisters, the time is now for us to rise.” [841]
And does the notion of Islam’s global rule, the notion of a worldwide caliphate, extend to America? Apparently the answer is yes. Two admitted Islamic “terrorists” appeared on the Philadelphia-based TV show Your Morning on CN8 and gave a potent sense of the global unity of today’s militant Islam. The first, Walid Shoebat, a Palestinian from a prominent family who had successfully bombed an Israeli bank, was asked why the privileged son of Arab aristocrats would turn to violence. Said Shoebat, “My grandfather was good friends with Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the grand mufti of Jerusalem. He was called the Fuehrer of the Muslim world. … It’s not like you join a terror organization. People don’t understand in the West. They think it’s like the Unabomber. You know, ‘What goes on in the mind of a terrorist’… It’s the collective incitement of millions of children. In school, in the social arena, in clubs, in the mosque, on the Temple Mount, in the streets, in the graffiti.” In other words, jihad is taught in some Muslim schools as the norm.
The interviewer clearly did not believe what he heard. He did not believe that Holy War— that violence in the name of Islam— is taught in mainstream schools anywhere in the world. “Are you saying it’s part of the culture?” he asked. “Are you saying it’s part of the upbringing of the children of Palestine, the children of Iraq right now?” Shoebat answered, “Absolutely. Absolutely. When I was six years old, I go to school, just before the Six Day War, we sing ‘Arabs are beloved, and Jews are dogs.’ So you can see it’s not just in the Palestinian area, it’s in Jordan, it’s in Lebanon, it’s in Cairo, it’s in Syria, it’s all over.”
But what’s the connection between the culture of Palestine and the three million strong [842] Islamic culture of the USA? The CN8 interviewer turned from Shoebat to Ibrahim Abdullah, another admitted terrorist born and raised in Dearborn, Michigan, and asked if similar things are happening in the USA. Answered Abdullah, “Organizations who are funding terrorist organizations all over the country… usually… you’ll find they start in Dearborn, Detroit, because that is the home base of many of these organizations. … As far as cultivating the mentality of the children, that’s absolutely truthful. [In Dearborn] It is just like it is in the West Bank. And not just the West Bank, throughout the Middle East, in the Muslim world as a whole.”
The interviewer tried to make sure that he understood Abdallah correctly. “So what you’re saying, then, Ibrahim,” he asked, “is that right here, in our country, as we are speaking to viewers living here in the United States, you’re saying that there are cells of terrorists, young men being cultivated right in our borders?” Abdallah answered, “Right. But what I’m trying to explain to you is that it’s not an obscure thing that just started happening. This is part of the culture. You’re born and raised with this hatred in your mind and in your heart. I mean for America and Israel. Primarily the Jew and Christian. And that is what the target is.” [843]
Which brings us back to an organization we heard from a few paragraphs back, CAIR, the Council for American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is the leading voice of moderate Islam in America. When Islam is accused of harboring violence, spokesmen from CAIR pop up on as many television shows as they can reach explaining that, “Islam is a religion of peace.” But that is apparently not what CAIR’s leaders say when they are in the fold of their own people. CAIR’s chairman Omar M. Ahmad reportedly told an all-Muslim audience in California in 1998 that, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.” [844]
Jihad Unspun, the leader of CAIR, and many others were calling for a new form of global superorganism, one run by a meme that was built for top predator status by its founder 1,376 years earlier. As Osama bin Laden likes to say, this “clash is in fact a clash of civilizations,” [845] a world war that girdles the globe and that has a front line extending, according to Osama to, “ Tajakestan, Burma, Kashmir, Assam [India], Philippines, Fatani [Thailand], Ogadin [in Africa], Somalia, Eritrea [in Northern Africa], Chechnya… Kashmir, Pakistan and everywhere.” [846] In this battle of memes and of superorganisms of global size, the Muslim mass mind’s ability to think in multi-generational terms and its policy of “competitive reproduction” [847] may give it an edge over the Western collective intelligence, a mass mind that’s often blind to anything longer than a two-year-plan.
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If Indian security expert B. Rahman is wrong and there were no foreign agitators in the French riots of 2005, who were the “ringleaders” of the Paris riots? What mosques did they attend? What doctrines had they been taught? And what did the following statement in The New York Times coverage of France’s Muslim riots really mean?
Immigration analysts say the current segregation is precursor to an inevitable reshaping of European societies forced to reopen their borders to increase the tax rolls and balance their aging, shrinking populations with immigrants. [848]
Could a statement by one Islamic author, Dr. Ali Mohammed Naqvi, provide a clue? “Islam,” he says, “addresses all of mankind as a single unit. Its system is not for a nation, but for the whole human society. It is the duty of Muslims to fight unyieldingly against every other ideology and school including nationalism, communism and liberalism, politically and intellectually and they should not rest until the school of God [Islam] comes to dominate over the personal, social, political, economic, intellectual and religious life of man.” [849]
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“I know a lot of people. A lot. And I ask a lot of prying questions. But I’ve never run into a more intriguing biography than Howard Bloom’s in all my born days. What’s so striking, besides the you-gotta-be-kidding details, is the coherence of the narrative — the arc that still has Bloom thinking and striving with regard to space, science, transcendence, and simple clarity, 55 years later. Sweet.” Paul Solman, Business and Economics Correspondent, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer _______________
Howard Bloom has been called “the Darwin, Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st Century” by Britain’s Channel4 TV and “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine.
Bloom calls his field “mass behavior” and explains that his area of study includes everything from the mass behavior of quarks to the mass behavior of human beings. He is the founder of three international scientific groups: The Group Selection Squad (started in 1995), The International Paleopsychology Project (1997), and The Space Development Steering Committee (2007), which includes Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell (the sixth man to set foot on the moon), and decision makers from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Air Force. And he’s the founder of a mass-communications volunteer group that gets across scientific ideas using animation, The Big Bang Tango Media Lab (started in 2001).
Bloom comes from the world of cosmology, theoretical physics, and microbiology. But he did 20 years of fieldwork in the world of business and popular culture, where he tested his hypotheses in the real world. In 1968 Bloom turned down four graduate fellowships and embarked on what he calls his Voyage of the Beagle, an expedition to the dark underbelly where new myths, new historical movements, and new shifts in mass emotion are made.
The result: Bloom generated $28 billion in revenues (more than the gross domestic product of Oman or Luxembourg) for companies like Sony, Disney, Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Warner Brothers. He accomplished this by taking profits out of the picture and focusing on passion and soul. He applied the same principle to star-making, helping build the careers of figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, John Mellencamp, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, and roughly 100 others. Bloom also plunged into social causes. He helped Launch Farm Aid and Amnesty International in the United States, created two educational programs for the Black community, put together the first public-service radio advertising campaign for solar energy, and co-founded the leading national music anti-censorship movement in the United States, an organization that went toe-to-toe with Al Gore’s wife Tipper and with the religious extremists manipulating her.
A former visiting scholar in the Graduate Psychology Department at New York University and a former Core Faculty Member at The Graduate Institute in two fields–Conscious Evolution and Organizational Leadership–Bloom is the author of four books: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (“mesmerizing”–The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century (“reassuring and sobering”–The New Yorker), How I Accidentally Started The Sixties (“a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement.” Timothy Leary), and The Genius of the Beast: A Radical re-Vision of Capitalism (“exhilaratingly-written and masterfully-researched. I couldn’t put it down.”–James Burke).
But Bloom’s chef d’oeuvre is a project of the kind that normally only lunatics undertake, the 5,700 chapters of what he unabashedly calls “The Grand Unified Theory of Everything In the Universe Including the Human Soul.” Pavel Kurakin of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow says that with the Grand Unified Theory of Everything In the Universe Including the Human Soul, “Bloom has created a new Scientific Paradigm. He explains in vast and compelling terms why we should forget all we know in complicated modern math and should start from the very beginning. …Bloom’s Grand Unified Theory… opens a window into entire systems we don’t yet know and/or see, new…collectivities that live, love, battle, win and lose each day of our gray lives. I never imagined that a new system of thought could produce so much light.”
Concludes Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.”
Howard Bloom – The Struggle For Europe-The MOHAMMED CODE
