Kuffarphobia

Islamists and their left-wing apologists are quick to denounce any criticism of Islam as “Islamophobia”. We should also talk about the widespread kuffarphobia in Islamic cultures.

Kuffar is the unbeliever in Islam. It simply includes all non-believers. To be more precise, all those who do not believe in Allah and his prophet Muhammad. The kuffar is impure and has only a small window of time to confess his faith in Allah or be attacked as a kuffar.

In large circles of Islam, kuffarphobia dominates: everything he does is inherently evil and bad, often referred to as haram. Women without a hijab, practising homosexuality, Judaism or freedom of speech trigger violent, frequently violent reactions. These are examples of kuffarphobia.

The world is divided into absolute good and absolute evil. If you think you are absolutely good and on the right side of history, you react individually and collectively with phobia, that is, with fear-filled aversion and hostility.

You believe your existence is threatened. The threat, however, is an imaginary, a projected one, fed by your delusional structure. There is no room for shades of grey or differentiation.

The phobia forces you into a radical, fundamental rejection of the non-believer. You are kuffarphobic. All measures and examples to the contrary are of little use: you allow mosques to be built, you allow reactionary-fascist Islamic associations to help shape things, you do not ban the hijab and generally strive for integration.

The “phobe” cannot accept this because, on the one hand, he senses fraud and deceit everywhere, and on the other hand, his goal is complete submission, the full rule of Islam qua Umma and Sharia.

The unbeliever, the kuffar, cannot do or give anything good. If he did, his building would quickly begin to falter. This is how one isolates oneself and others and forces one’s own “ranks” into radicalism… one is kuffarphobic.

George Weinberg has described “homophobia”, in which he also names the religious dimension. The interfaces with Kuffarphobia are obvious:

“I coined the word ‘homophobia’ to express that it was a fear of homosexuals… It was a fear of homosexuals that seemed to be linked to a fear of contamination, a fear of devaluing the things one was fighting for – home and family. It was a religious fear and it had led to great inhumanity, as fear always does.” Here, in Kuffarphobia: It is the fear of the unbeliever, the Kuffar.

Mutatis mutandis, Kuffarphobia can be described as a fear of the unbeliever, the Kuffar, in Islam. The fear of temptation and its defence as temptation is also present, indeed part of the religious torque, just as there is a fear that the Umma will be devalued and is in danger as long as the world is not Islamic.

The essential elements for describing homophobia can also be found in Finding Kuffarphobia with the difference: Homophobia is seen as having a quasi-religious dimension, whereas Kuffarphobia has a constitutive religious dimension; it is an expression of religiosity.

It may be helpful to locate the dimension of Kuffarphobia if we look again at Weinberg’s statements: “Homophobia is exactly that: a phobia. A morbid and irrational fear that causes irrational flight or the urge to destroy the stimulus of the phobia and everything that reminds us of it.”

It is not difficult to transfer this to Kuffarphobia. Political phobia is – like homophobia or Kuffarphobia – characterized by anger and hatred and causes suffering in others, if one follows the differentiation of D.A.F. Haaga, according to which a distinction must be made between a political and an individual phobia, with the result that homophobia represents a political phobia, which I also consider to be an essential characteristic of Kuffarphobia. Is every Muslim now “kuffarphobic”? No, certainly not. Hope so.

Whether misguided or not, or whether an expression of “true” Islam or not, is not clear on this point. This point is meaningless and not implied. It is also not the victim of kuffarphobia’s job to negotiate this.

Fighting the causes of this phobia is an internal Islamic matter, but defending oneself against this kuffarphobia and being able to lead a life free of kuffarphobia is the job of all those who do not believe in Allah and his prophet.

Just as homophobia is ostracized and rejected, this ostracism and rejection must apply to kuffarphobia. Kuffarphobia is unacceptable behaviour, a burden on the free world. Just as it says “Nazis out”, it must also say “Islamists out”.