In his latest video presentation titled, "Cardinal Muhammad (How The Vatican Created Islam)" researcher and scholar Michael Tsarion posits the theory for the true origins of Islam, pointing the finger at the Vatican.
The main source he gives is a book by Jack Chick, who is a dubious character whose own conclusions about the Vatican's creation of Islam comes from a guy named Alberto Rivera.
Rivera claimed to be a former Jesuit and blames all the sins, conspiracies and crimes in the world on that order. He alleged that the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981 was a Jesuit operation.
The assassin, a Grey Wolves Turkish terrorist named Mehmet Ali Ağca, also said that a Cardinal hired him to do the hit, before changing his story to say it was actually the Soviets, and then changing it again years later in a 2013 book, this time claiming he was hired by the Ayatollahs.
Since the Grey Wolves organization is so close to the CIA, maybe it was the CIA that ordered the hit?
Who knows.
When you go down the rabbit hole of conspiracies and assassinations of high political figures, anything is possible.
The same goes for the unwrapping of the history of religions.
The Vatican's creation of Islam to uproot Byzantium's hold on power in Jerusalem is a very plausible theory for the origins of Islam. It could be true. It's just as plausible as the one given by Islam itself.
Religions of conquests don't just fall out of the sky. They arise out of the political environments, military conflicts, religious matrix, and cultural mileu of their time.
The Vatican's following of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" strategy did not work out as it was intended, as Tsarion points out. This was another historical case of geopolitical karma. The Arab mercenaries overstayed their welcome in Jerusalem and created a new religion to justify their permanent political presence in the Holy Land.
Their new found empire suddenly became the work of God, not of man, of divine origin, not of papal palace intrigue. Their subsequent conquests across West Asia, North Africa, and Central Asia gave them even greater confidence and belief that God was on their side.
One form those conquests took is conscious, state-directed religious appropriation.
The repurposing of sacred architecture, in this case the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, is a practice that both Christianity and Islam are guilty of.
Rebuilding on the holy site you just destroyed or rediscovered is a powerful display of religious imperialism and spiritual continuity. It links the past with the present and the future.
The Catholic Church famously built many of its churches in Latin America on Aztec and Mayan worship spaces and pyramid sites.
Such places hold intrinsic power. And as universal religions, Catholicism and Islam can't help themselves. Wherever they go they must stamp their flag, otherwise their whole religion unravels.
Constructing new religious edifices on ancient sacred sites is not just about erasing the ancestral memory and colonizing the minds of the vanquished. It's about cleaning their own conscience.
When kings and armies conquer they collect gold, land, taxes, and slaves. Pretty straight forward stuff. Nothing out of the ordinary. But when men of God, priests, and prophets conquer they take souls. And they drive a harder bargain.
The power of Christianity and Islam lies in their fanaticism, their erasure and co-opting of indigenous religious history, and the sheer amount of their cultish adherents. "Nothing succeeds like success."
Today, Islamic worshippers are invading public spaces in Western countries, and making themselves a public nuisance. Private worship does not exist in their religious lexicon. Islam is a domineering religion at its core.
It's all well and fine that one believes in God and the afterlife, go ahead, feel free, but acting out this belief in public on a mass scale is abhorrent. There are temples, churches, mosques, synagogues, and monasteries for all that. If our governments don't draw the line and define the use of public spaces as purely for secular activities then I'm afraid there will be chaos, resentment, anger, and violence in the future.
As the youngest sibling of the three Abrahamic faiths Islam is compensating for its juniour status by acting out and showing how big and powerful it is. It has the little brother syndrome, the impostor syndrome, whatever you want to call it. It is beating its chest like King Kong and the West is the blonde on the Empire State building. Someone has to calm it down, tranquilize it, and put it back in its cage.
Christianity displayed similar psychotic tendencies in the early centuries of its founding before Constantine elevated it to the state religion. Its adherents went about and acted out like crazy maniacs. Islam has never grown out of that childish phase because it still views the whole world as its dominion.
Christianity at least had the decency to give up its universalist claims in the previous two centuries as European minds freed themselves from its suffocating and ridiculous doctrines. It matured. Islam's maturing will come too.
