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Islam and Communism by Hakim Khalifa

ISLAM AND COMMUNISM

Since the time of the Russian Communist Revolution and more so since the consolidation and the ever- wing military strength of Russia, Communism has been a challenge to the established order of things.

Religion, ethics, economics, politics, in short the entire fabric of human relations and the concepts on wliich they are based have felt the impact of the ico nocla stic zeal of this revolutionary cataclysm. The direct or indirect repercussions of this challenge are so vast and many-sided that it is impossible for any thinker or reformer to ignore it.

It is a powerful influence in the present-day world both for good and for evil. The truest thing said about the Russian Communist experiment is that most of the good things said about Russia are true and most of the bad things said about Russia are also true.

The Czarist Russia was not a paradise of humanity. It was monaF^ic, feudal, medieval and tyrannical, untouched by the liberal movements of the West.

Its religion was corrupt, its church was decadent, its priests were superstitious and obscurantist, its economy was rickety and the toleration of indi¬ vidual liberty was non-existent. There was very little literacy in the entire realm, many parts of which were left in utter ignorance to wallow in mental subjection.