Islam - an Atheistic Handbook for Fighting Islam and the Communist Newspeak
Islam - an Atheistic Handbook for Fighting Islam and the Communist Newspeak

Summary/Abstract: The study offers an outline of the political context in which the Handbook appeared - the preparation of the so called “revival process” of violent assimilation of the Bulgarian speaking Muslims (Pomaks) in the 1970s. The language and the main postulates of the Handbook have been analyzed in the frame of the theory of the totalitarian newspeak and mentality. The criticism on Islam exploited the rhetoric of anthropology, medicine, hygiene, modernization and patriotism to stigmatize the Holy Book of Islam, the main pillars of Islam, Islam practices, family and the position of women, denying any moral values to Islam. The arguments are supported by a mixture of historical facts, ideology clichés, folk legends, fiction and false quotations of the Quran. To answer the criticism, the author uses quotations of legitimate translations of the Quran, research on Ottoman archives, and the achievements of Islamic feminism and modernism.

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