Page 57 - The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion

Enmity towards religion, having a concise expression in the

statements above, was sparked by Marx and has become the most

common attribute of all communist regimes. Although Marx did not

live long enough to realize his ambitions, Lenin embraced his evil

heritage and established a regime based on irreligion. And the cruel

regime of Stalin practiced it very strictly.

In pursuit of this goal during the course of the communist

revolutions carried out in Russia, China and elsewhere, mosques and

houses of worship were closed down and people who opposed

communist revolution were brutally murdered. Joseph Stalin carried

out the bloodiest massacres in world history, ordering the execution of

more than 20 million people. Pol Pot, the communist dictator of

Cambodia, who was responsible for the murder of three million people

out of a population of only nine million, is also among the most

notorious of irreligious leaders. And Enver Hoxha, Albania's

communist leader, ordered heavy penalties for every kind of religious

belief and worship and declared that he "had founded the first entirely

atheist state in the world."

These "pharaohs of the 20th century," bereft of mercy,

compassion and love, harbored bitter enmity towards religion as did

the ancient Pharaoh, punishing and torturing those who believed. His

oppression is depicted in the Qur’an:

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