Islamist Propaganda, Achernar and Noreagaa's Wakeup Project, Debunked
Ilya Shambat
huge 50-part compilation called the Wakeup Project explaining Jihadism
to the English-speaking world. While some of their claims are too
abstruse to be testable, many aren't. And most of these claims are
false.
Historical Falsehoods
The first such claim is that the Antichrist (in Arabic, Dajjal) has
ruled, and is going to rule, the world through Western countries, with
England ruling from 900AD to 1900AD; America from 1917 to 2000; then
Israel for the next 23 years. Anyone with historical knowledge knows
this to be false. England was a feudal backwater that, with the
exception of its conquest of France under Henry V, barely ruled itself
until Queen Elizabeth, who came into power in 16th century. Until
then, the major powers in the world were China, which controlled half
the world's GDP while Europe was in the Dark Ages; the Muslim lands
around Baghdad; and the Mongol Empire, which controlled half the
world's landmass and population for over a century. The Songhai and
Mali empires of Africa, the Moghul Empire of India, the Moore
Civilization of Northern Africa, the Muslim caliphates, and the
Mesoamerican civilizations, all had accomplishments that exceeded
those of Medieval England. These things are not mentioned much in
Western history classes, as these were not proud times in white man's
history. But those who study world history know this to be the case.
England was in fact the greatest power in the world for three
centuries from 1600 to 1900; but even then it was not alone. Spain,
France, and to a lesser extent Germany, Russia, United States, Ottoman
Empire, Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal, all controlled large parts
of the world at the time. These three centuries could be called
European centuries, but the previous seven hundred years were neither
English nor European. To claim that England ruled the world from 900AD
to 1900AD is absurd.
The claim that America ruled the world from 1917 to 2000 is more
accurate, but that is not saying much. The 20th century has in fact
been called American century; but once again that is not the full
story. The two great powers of 20th century were United States and
Soviet Union. Germany and Japan also aspired to be great powers, but
they were defeated militarily; after which they became major economic,
but not military or political, powers. The claim of the film is that
Israel will rule the world for the next 23 years. That comes across as
unlikely; but if a tiny nation like Israel, that is faced with the
kind of hatred with which it is faced, can not only survive as a
nation but exercise a major voice in world affairs, then that is a
great accomplishment on the part of Israeli people and one for which
they deserve respect.
In its invective against Zionism, the film shows a picture of a book
called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." This book is a well-
known Russian forgery. There is no such thing as "the Elders of Zion"
or their "protocols," and the practices that are described in this
book have absolutely no relation to actual practices of any Jewish
denomination. That these filmmakers would use such an obvious and well-
known fraud shows them that they are conmen, and that they also think
that their audience is stupid enough to fall for their con. Neither of
these bode well for their treatment of their audience.
Another fraudulent claim is that the current Pope is a Nazi -
bolstered by a picture of the Pope as a child with a swastika on his
arm. Should I state the obvious: That the fact the Pope was a child in
Germany at the time that Germany was Nazi says nothing about his
current convictions or about who he presently is? The Nazi Germany was
a totalitarian country, and the choice people had was either be Nazi
or be dead. The only thing he can be accused of is being born in the
wrong place at the wrong time. That he was Nazi, as a child, in a
place where people had no other choice but to be Nazi, does not mean
that he is a Nazi now, 65 years down the road.
Islamic Conspiracy Theories
A central claim of the film is that a monolithic Satanic elite has
been running the world for centuries and is doing the same now. I ask
this: What is the status of the relationships between an elite called
the Texas Oil and an elite called the National Endowment for the Arts?
For that matter, what was the status of the relationships between
government elites and corporate elites - between Wall Street and
Congressional Democrats - between CIA and American media - between
Republican Party and American academia? What is the status of the
relationships between Iranian students and Iranian Guardian Council -
between Hindu Brahmins and Hindu Socialists - between Taliban and the
United Arab Emirates commercial interests - between Tobacco Industry
and the National Institutes of Health? At any time in the history of
the world, there is any number of powerful groups and powerful
individuals who have different and frequently competing or hostile
beliefs, values and interests; as well as any number of ambitious or
angry groups and individuals who seek to either become part of these
groups, supplant them, destroy them, or exist alongside of them. The
elites have different purposes and different aims, and the only thing
that they have in common is that they got where they are by being
effective at something. Beyond that, they are as different from one
another as New York is from Kandahar.
Another claim is that the Hollywood stars are puppets - and not just
anyone's puppets, but the puppets of powerful Satanic interests. There
are two things that the filmmakers fail to understand about Hollywood.
One is that it is a capitalist industry, and capitalist industries
produce what sells. The movies about gangsters and drug dealers sell,
and that's why they are on the market. For that matter, we also find
on the market such religious films as Apostle, Fallen, Devil's
Advocate, Passion and Apocalypto. For that matter, we also find on the
market children's films such as Bambi, Beauty and the Beast,
Transformers, Bratz and Cars. For that matter, we also find on the
market Charlie Chaplin movies, Disney classics, and films such as
Chinatown, Titanic, and Schindler's List. As any industry, Hollywood
produces what sells; and what sells in market economy depends on the
demand and what composes the demand.
They also fail to understand this: that Hollywood has many voices in
it, and they too are different and have different agendas. So that
when Madonna - who is in no way a puppet, who writes her own songs,
who makes her own show, and who has always defied both convention and
prediction to constantly re-invent herself, going from celebrating
consumerism as "Material Girl" in 1980s to rejecting 1980s consumerism
and everything that it was about in her 1999 mystical album ("You're
so concerned with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and
regret, you're frozen when your heart's not open") - metamorphs
herself into a dog in her video, or appears as an occult priestess at
a concert, what is presented is not the values of Hollywood, but the
values of Madonna. The values of Madonna differ from the values of
Alec Baldwin, whose values differ from the values of Angelina Jolie,
whose values differ from those of Eminem, whose values differ from
those of Elton John, whose values differ from the values of Britney
Spears, whose values differ from those of Mel Gibson, whose values
differ from those of Spike Lee or Francis Ford Coppolla or Steven
Spielberg. This is an inevitable result of the fact that it is an
entity that is not homogeneous, but has many people in it who believe
different things.
The film is right to state that much great art gets lost in Hollywood,
and that there is not presently music being produced in Hollywood that
compares with the work of Bob Marley. This is likewise due to market.
As I've found out from a magnificent rock band called Persephone's
Bees, the Hollywood music industry works in genres, and music that is
truly creative is not easy to pigeonhole. For that reason there is
such a thing as alternative music market and independent ("indie")
music market, and some of the work that is found in these markets is
indeed great art.
Showing the murder of Malcolm X, the filmmakers state, "This is what
happens to truth in the world." It bears stating that the exact same
thing happened to American liberal leaders John and Robert Kennedy; to
American atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair; to civil rights and
liberation leaders Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Patrice
Lumumba; to Yitzhak Rabin, Anwar Sedat and Benazir Bhutto. Of these,
only the last two were Muslim; and both were moderate Muslims who were
murdered by Muslim militants. Malcolm X, as an assassinated leader,
was in this regard one out of many, and in disagreement with most on
just about everything that counts.
The film continues to portray Malcolm X as "one of the most powerful
and most honest leaders of all time." This demonstrates just what the
filmmakers define as honest and powerful. As Martin Luther King said,
there is nothing more dangerous than honest ignorance and sincere
stupidity. As far as great historic leaders go, Malcolm X is not even
on the list. He does not begin to compare to Jefferson, Washington,
Churchill, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Simon Bolivar,
Kwame Nkruma, or even Lenin and Mao. Martin Luther King was the real
"powerful honest" American civil rights leader whose nonviolent
resistance gave black people the moral authority that was needed to
change the American laws and society in their favor. Malcolm X, on the
other hand, wanted violent struggle against the white man. That the
filmmakers would identify blind, stupid, self-defeating violence with
honesty and power says more about their character and their values
than it does about anything else.
It was in fact this - blind, stupid, self-defeating violence - that
became the worst blight of American black communities in the decades
that followed. Not only did this practice result in rape, pillage and
murder of millions of black Americans by other black Americans and the
black neighborhoods becoming blighted to the point that no business or
educational institution would go there, but it severely undermined the
moral authority that American black people had gained through the
nonviolent civil rights struggle. The black neighborhoods turning into
a gangster's paradise not only ruined life for black people, but also
formed much of the basis for latter-day racism on the part of people
inside and outside America. This ruinous legacy, unfortunately, has
much to do with advocates of violence, both against the white man and
in itself.
Another claim in the film is that the Freemasons are a satanic cult,
and that America as the world's first Masonic country has been using
covert tactics, from magic to psychological manipulation, to turn
people toward the Masonic way of thinking in order to control the
world. This claim is wed with the claim that Zionism is also Satanic
and allied with Freemasonry. This reminds me of the "Kike-Masonic
Conspiracy" nonsense that the hooligan types in Russia were shouting
about. Covert persuasion, and different forms of mystical practices,
have been used through all of history, by all kinds of entities. If
the Freemasons are using mysticism, they are in that one group among
myriads. As for use of psychology, it is standard marketing and
political fare and has been so for decades all over the world.
A large part of the film goes on to relate different structures around
the world to have been created for the sake of harvesting energy for
purposes good or ill. It then claims that octagones and domes are
good; that obelisks such as Washington Monument and pyramids such as
the decorations on U.S. Dollar are evil; and that the street plan of
Washington, DC shows an inverted pentagram - the symbol of Lucifer.
The claim is that all these structures have been created to serve
Satan. I am reminded of a poetry reading in DC that I attended.
Someone started the reading by referring to Washington Monument as "a
giant while penis symbolizing the white man screwing the world." I
responded with, "As one of the few white people here, I would like to
make clear that the penis on the Washington Mall is not mine."
Octagons, domes good? Obelisks, pyramids evil? What about structures
that are not found either in Islamic or Western architecture? What
about pagodas, stupas, monasteries and homes carved into mountains,
Japanese gardens, Golden Temple of Armitsar, Kremlin, the Forbidden
City of Bejing, Boroboddur, the structures of Machu Picchu? To claim
such things without proof is irresponsible propaganda, which most of
the movie shows itself to be.
The film shows the outside and the inside of a major new shopping
center in Dubai and claims its Egyptian-style decorations to be an
attempt to resurrect the religion of ancient Egypt. More likely, it is
simply a tourist draw. Since many of the people who go to Dubai to do
shopping there are from the West, it is good business sense that they
get a taste there of ancient Egypt. And if anyone who was affiliated
with the project actually had it in mind to recreate some achievements
of Egyptian civilization, then that may be called conscience. Egypt
was a major civilization before it became Muslim; and if some people
in Middle East are interested in recreating some of Egypt's
achievements, then that is to their credit.
There is a claim in the movie that since the construction of Burj
Dubai - by far the world's tallest building - the city of Dubai has
been covered in mist, in which it has not been covered previously. The
movie claims that no meteorologist has explained this, but that it is
explained metaphysically as Burj Dubai being Satanic. Apparently the
meteorologists asked have not been particularly competent. The
building is so tall, that its tallest portions reach much colder air
that is found at its heights close to a kilometer above the ground.
The cold then goes down the building to cool the air at the bottom of
the building, reducing its ability to carry water and resulting in
humidity settling down as mist.
Metaphysical Blunders
The movie talks about different metaphysical ideas, such as that the
checkered floor is the symbol of intersection of dimensions, and that
every time there is a checkered floor, then that is its meaning. The
claim in all cases is that application of any metaphysical ideas,
whether done deliberately or not deliberately, is done to serve the
Satan - in the same way as, for example, many Western Christians
accuse Wiccans of worshiping Satan when Wiccans do not even believe
that there is such a being as Satan, less worship the same. One would
expect to hear this from people who believe that all of the world -
both nature and man - is of the Satan, and that all its knowledge and
accomplishment is meant to serve Satan. But what one really is hearing
in all these cases is the Mosque or the Church appropriating the
credit for all that exists in nature and all that humanity has
accomplished while it has created none of these things, has destroyed
it wherever it found it, and viciously resisted it in the areas of its
domination whenever it attempted to come to being.
Intersection of dimensions evil? What next: The coordinate system
evil? Calculus evil? Physics evil? Chemistry? Biology? It is by having
beliefs such as these that Muslims ensured the ignorance of the people
who have the misfortune of living under their rule and the complete
lack of accomplishment by Muslims in mathematics, science, technology
and related pursuits. And this reflects a degradation not only in
those people but in Islam itself. The Muslims of Middle Ages were
masterful in mathematics and architecture; but aggressively ignorant
attitudes such as this prevent the same mastery from being achieved by
the Muslims of today. And that hurts mostly the Muslims, especially
ones such as are in Dubai, who have the courage and intellect to
accept and apply mathematics and science and who, for that, are
treated to slander and demonization.
The film then goes through music videos, concerts, and cartoons to
show the supposed Satanic symbolism contained in them. Given that the
filmmakers would interpret anything - a checkered floor, an obelisk,
shopping mall decorations, the map of DC or the eye on the US dollar -
as Satanic, these claims are to be expected considering the source.
The filmmakers are suffering from paranoia and confirmatory bias.
There are many ways to interpret a checkered floor or an obelisk, and
it does not have to have anything to do with Ra or Dajjal. So that
while they interpret Madonna's video of the song Frozen, which she
wrote when she started studying New Age, as being an attempt on the
part of the Satan to steal people's souls, the words such as the song
lyrics "If I could melt your heart we'd never be apart, give yourself
to me" - that they claim to be evidence of Satan attempting to take
people over - are nothing that we do not see in men wooing women or in
women wooing men. And while there are many interests that use film as
their means of communication or advertisement, to claim Hollywood to
be a monolithic Satanic cult is ridiculous.
Then there is the claim that the Gospel story of Jesus was modified to
reflect the story of Horus, which led people through Christianity to
worship Egyptian sun-god Ra. Since the symbol of Ra is a single eye,
the film then claims that Dajjal - which the Quran refers to as being
one-eyed - is in fact this Egyptian god. It then shows photos of
different drawings of the One Eye on churches and cathedrals, as well
as on the US dollar, and claims that all these are manifestations of
the one-eyed Antichrist. The further claim is that all people
complicit in any of this are in fact following Satan, and that
Freemasons, as the people who built the cathedrals and churches of
Europe, have duped people into doing the same.
While most readers will see this as being ridiculous, it merits a
deeper response for those who may be thinking that it is not. First of
all, the symbol on the dollar is not Ra; it is the all-seeing eye.
Since the eye is the symbol of seeing, it should not be surprising
that it would be found on religious architecture to symbolize that God
is watching, that God knows, and that the people cannot avoid this.
Secondly, many practices within Christianity are in fact borrowed from
other religions of the time. Easter is borrowed from Babylonian
goddess Ishtar, who was the goddess of resurrection and whose symbols
were a rabbit and an egg. Christmas was put into the place of the
Roman holiday Saturnalia. The Christmas tree was a pagan symbol of
resurrection. The film says nothing about these practices; meaning
that it does not know and cannot comment in an informed and
intelligent way.
The Great Satan Theory
Much of the movie has references to a film called Zeitgeist, which
makes a case that 9-11 was an inside job and that there is a group of
bankers who have been controlling the world behind the scenes. One
does not need a conspiracy theory to see how bankers would be in a
position to exercise covert political influence. As the providers of
capital, they have much leverage over the production process; and the
money that they accrue also gives them power that they can wield as
they choose. The dynamics of the banking profession itself allows for
a strong possibility of bankers wielding unelected authority from
behind the scenes, in the same way as say the dynamics of CIA - as a
secretive organization possessing very advanced knowledge - also
allows for the possibility of CIA wielding such power or with getting
away with actions that would be unacceptable if they were openly
scrutinized. Logically, there are many people and organizations that
wield power from behind the scenes, and one does not need to resort to
conspiracy theories to understand that.
With jihadism however, we are seeing anything that is wrong in the
West - or anything that anyone says to be wrong with the West, whether
or not it be true - being used to advance the Great Satan theory. One
major strategy of the Islamists is infiltrating all groups and people
who have a problem with the system and subverting them toward jihad.
And what these groups and people don't know but should know is that
the system that the Islamists want to force on them is far more
brutal, far more oppressive, and far more terrible than anything that
they are living with. Even if such conspiracy theories were true,
being ruled by bankers is better than being ruled by the Taliban, and
I am sure that people who have had the experience of both would be
able to corroborate that.
The movie refers to an alleged fraud by British media in fabricating
signs carried by Muslim demonstrants to read hateful slogans. That
claim is not unlikely - the British media, it may be remembered,
fabricated in 1990s a racket of accusing Pagans of practicing "Satanic
Ritual Abuse" of children - an accusation that was debunked, but that
is still held by many in the back of their minds. And what the British
media don't understand is that they do not need to use fraud in order
to paint Islamists as villains. All it really needs to do is expose
the history of Islam, from being founded by a pedophilic tyrant who at
age 84 bedded a 9-year-old, to its extermination of 150 million people
during its spread through Middle East, to the barbaric practices of
present-day Muslims such as throwing sulphuric acid into girls' faces
for going to school or not wearing burqa, giving a girl 200 lashes for
riding in a car with a friend, and torturing and assassinating
political and religious leaders who preach democracy, tolerance and
moderation.
There is a claim in the movie that Islam is the world's fastest
growing religion, and that most new converts are women. Among male
converts, the most in America are found in its prisons. These are
people who are already violent, lawless, and have a grudge against the
system; which means that they will come out of the prisons not only
Muslims, but militant Muslims, and will upon the end of their sentence
take jihad to America's streets. And that, is far more dangerous to
America than any number of sociopaths or drug pushers. A severe
internal threat to America's security is being created at taxpayer
expense, and American people deserve to know about it.
Islamist Threat
While the thrust of aggressive Islam is anti-American, this is no
reason for Europe, Russia, Asia and Latin America to think that they
are not under threat. The goal of Islamism is world domination, and
that not only means USA; it means everyone. When Cortez landed in
Mexico, the neighbors of Aztecs, who saw Aztecs as being barbaric
aggressors, collaborated with Cortez to bring down the Aztec city-
state Tenochtitlan. They did not realize that Cortez did not only want
to enslave the Aztecs, but also to enslave them. The jihadists may not
be as aggressively anti-European as they are anti-American, but if
they had their way, the whole world would be living by sharia. This is
not only a threat against America. This is a threat against everyone,
and on this matter it is fitting that Europeans, Americans, Russians,
Asians and everyone else who is not jihadist put aside their
differences and work together to protect the world from this menace.
The movie presents Muslim men as being loving fathers who enjoy
providing for their families. Question 1: How good providers are the
world's poorest people, a vast portion of whom - from Pashtuns to
Somalis - are Muslim? Question 2: How loving are the men who murder
their daughters for getting raped, throw sulfur in their wives' faces
for arguing with them, and send their children to blow up
marketplaces? Being raised by an Islamist father - or being married to
an Islamist husband - is a nightmare that I would not wish upon my
worst enemies. One would have better life as a sewer child in Rio or a
slum child in India than being raised by the Taliban.
The movie ends with a scene in which a Muslim Imam refers to Zionists
as murderers and rapists and is telling a crowd that he was going to
make war on Zionists. It bears stating that the Islam was spread
through Middle East through rape, murder and pillage, and that
approximately 150 million people from Morocco to Pakistan were
slaughtered by Bedouin invaders. Nothing that Zionists have ever done
begins to compare to this atrocity. Israel deserves honor for having
resisted this menace for this long while being surrounded by it on
every side. The attitudes shown in this film make a strong case for
the Western countries - including Israel - to keep a good stockpile of
nuclear weapons. We are dealing with people who will lie, con, murder
anyone and then claim themselves the warriors for Allah; and with such
people there is no compromise.
The Islamists believe that destruction of Israel and Freemasonry is
the will of Allah. From what Quran states, Allah is all-powerful and
can do anything he wants to, at any time, without consulting anyone or
needing anyone's help. If it was the will of Allah to destroy Israel,
or United States, or Western Europe, then Allah would have been easily
able to do that himself and without needing any mere mortals to help
him. That he has not done that, means either that this is not the will
of Allah or that Allah either does not exist or is not what the Quran
states him to be.
In claiming their selfish political purposes to be the will of Allah,
the Islamists are insulting the god that they worship. From what Quran
says about Allah's character, these people are not going anywhere near
heaven if they insist on using Allah like that. If there is such a
thing as Allah, the people pulling this trick will find themselves in
the same place as the people they hate, with the people they hate
having the upper hand on them, and without Allah there to protect them
or the Taliban there to publicly whip, hang or throw acid into the
faces of all the "infidels" with whom they'll get to share such a
place.
Response
The Middle East had great civilizations - Egypt, Persia, Phoenicians,
Mesopotamia, Byzantine Empire - before the arrival of Islam. And as
the worst in the Middle East are attempting to forcibly convert the
world to the practice of sharia, I think it is time for a bit of
reciprocity. I think it is time that the people of the West, the East,
the North and the South help the people of Middle East recover the
better identity that they had as part of these great civilizations
before their forced conversion by marauding hooligans, as well as to
create a new identity for themselves - as what they themselves may
choose to become, away from oppression and brutality by the
ideological descendants of those who forced this atrocity on their
countries.
The makers of the film claim that they have studied many things,
including major religions. As someone who has likewise studied many
things, including religions but as much science and history, I can say
with full clarity that we are dealing here with a totalitarian cult
that will not tolerate anything except itself and will destroy anyone
who has any disagreement with it, no matter how minor or how honest it
may be. That these totalitarians, who give a pedophilic tyrant the
full authority over the lives of a billion people and want to force
the same upon the rest of the world, would claim themselves to have
God's truth and all else to be serving the Satan, shows them to
practice a Big Lie as massive as that of Hitler, that is just as
aiming at taking over the world and would not stop at anything to do
so. It is time that not only the West, but the rest of the world, see
the threat that is posed by them and address it effectively before it
is too late.
Ilya Shambat
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