Oswald Spengler Describes the Muslim World

Oswald Spengler (1880 -1936)

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"The eye of the beast of prey determines things according to position and distance. 

It apprehends the horizon. 

It measures up in this battlefield the objects and conditions of attack. 

Sniffing and spying, the way of the hind and the way of the falcon, are related as slavery and dominance. 

There is an infinite sense of power in this quiet wide-angle vision, 

a feeling of freedom that has its source in superiority, 

and its foundations in the knowledge of greater strength and consequent certainty of being no one's prey."

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The beast of prey is the powerful Muslim in a puritanical Muslim society of 2014. He is the imam, the general, the president, the minister of this and that, the journalist, the leader of the political party, the celebrity, the actor, the musical artist, the music producer, the television producer, the millionaire and billionaire CEO.

In the Middle East, it's either kill or be killed. In the Sudan, there is the saying, "Destroy, or you will be destroyed. That is "being no one's prey". 

The "infinite sense of power" is derived from the predator's element of mystery - from the prey not being able to understand or comprehend the power vested in the predator, because the predator shows little about himself and hides the more mortal features that, combined with the deceptive image, would expose his weaknesses like light of day. And weakness is exploited by the weaker, who in looking to assume the top position, brings down the one currently on top of everyone, that is, the strongest and smartest of the pack. 

In the Muslim world, freedom is negative: it is freedom from the influence of the oppressor. To avoid being the oppressed, you must have no one above you, that is, no one stronger than you, that is, you on top of everyone. And kill or be killed: this is a reality of a horrible place that creates Bashar al-Assads and Muqtada al-Sadr and not Ban Ki Moons and Dalai Lamas. The feeling of freedom is indeed based on superiority, as Spengler above states.

If al-Assad played nice, he and his family and his tribe and his whole religious sect would face a genocide from other beasts of prey. The Dalai Lama has no place in Damascus or Aleppo. Muqtada al-Sadr would have never known his prestigious place in the new Iraq of his time, if he did not double as a politician and remained a man of religion.

If theory remains without its practice, theory is useless, and its conceiver and bearer, the intellect, has wasted his life in it.