Thursday, April 20, 2006

Orwell's "1984" compared to Islam


I recently got a bootlegged version of 1984 (we in Pakistan seem quite happy not paying for creative license), and I was dumbfounded by its symbolism. 1984 Oceania could be a stylized 2006 Pakistan , or Saudi Arabia , or Iran or … any other failed Muslim state.
I wonder if Orwell had based his novel on Muslim thought. The allusion to communist East is clear yet his dystrophic message also clearly describes the effects of Islam on civil society. From the constant war mongering, the indoctrination of children, the “thought crime”, lack of freedom and innovation, the banal salutation of brother and sister all are terrifying reminders of a Mohammedan society. Yet not even Orwell could have thought up the insidious mind control that the pedophile Mohammad conjured up, in his sick demented state, as the cult of Islam.

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