NIETZCHE ON ISLAM by Daniel Gurpide Nietzsche considered himself as the biggest

NIETZCHE ON ISLAM

by Daniel Gurpide

Nietzsche considered himself as the biggest enemy of Christianity. His entire project of reevaluation of all values was based on a harsh critic of all crucial values of Christianity. Let us not forget that Nietzsche himself was the product of Christianity: he came from a long line of preachers. In that sense, and only for polemical purposes does he praise Islam.

He presents Islam in a more favorable light since it is a lot more masculine and warrior-like than Christianity: male Semitism vs. female Semitism.

“If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men….” (The Antichrist).

Nietzsche also respected the Persian Aryan spirit which had survived underground within Islamic civilization. He appreciates it’s aesthetics, culture, wealth, art. And let us not forget that he is comparing Islamic civilization at its zenith with the medieval dark ages in Europe. He is not offering a choice to modern European man.

The scholars who made the “Arab miracle” possible were mostly Syrians, Persians, Spaniards and Jews (not a drop of Arab blood in their veins and completely alien to the Arab mentality). Expelled from Europe by the Christian crusaders, displaced from Asia by the Mongol hordes, dominated by the Turks in Egypt, the Arabs lost contact with the Persians, Syrians, Christians, and Jews. Isolated once again, under the yoke of their fanatical Imams, they fell in deep slumber and the cycle of ignorance, dysgenics, poverty, and brutality started again. Any critical spirit which was left was suffocated without remorse: Allah aalam, God knows best.