ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one aspect of Freud's The Future of an Illusion namely, the morality of the group that he variously referred to as "underprivileged", "suppressed", "oppressed" and "uneducated. When men accepted God's sovereignty, "mankind was uplifted in its social order, its morals, in all of its life, to a zenith of perfection which has never been attained before and which cannot be attained afterwards except through Islam". Even though Islam had always had a universal appeal, it started as an Arab religion, and the prophet's companions were overwhelmingly Arabs. The goal of human equality is the goal of most religions and many secular ideologies, yet none of them has achieved this goal, except for the exceptional few. A radical Islamic mind is not only different from other minds—it is primarily a revolution against the way Islam has grown for many centuries. While Islam means submission to God, for the radical Islamist submission takes on an extreme meaning.
