Islamic Civilization: A Failed Cultural Immune System Today, the Islamic civilization suffers from what I term a “cultural immune system disorder”, whereby a culture is epistemologically and ontologically ineffective, yet exists as a culture or civilizational body. In the case of Islamic civilization, its current existence is odd one compared to other poles, it seems as though it exists as a dismembered geopolitical body. What makes things even more odd, is the fact that we possess a significant amount of religious or spiritual vitality, albeit to a small degree, and only in some respective pockets. This disorder could perhaps be traced back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the rise of all forms of inorganic nationalisms. Embodied by the rise of Turkish, Arab and Persian nationalism, and the enforced Sykes-Picot Agreement and Balfour Declaration, this neo-pseudomorphic effect has turned the hatred of the region inward and sown bloodlust amongst the diverse ethnic and religious groups that make up the Islamic-Magian world. The cultural immune system is either overactive and unable to distinguish between ontological enemy and healthy structures of its own civilizational body, as in the case of several reactionary religious or secular governments and movements that have damaged their sociopolitical body instead of defending it. Alternatively, the cultural immune system is underactive as a result of a collective epistemology that has willingly invited Western military adventurism and the forces of neoliberal globalization into their own backyard, and openly embraced the cult of progress failing to comprehend modernity as an anti-cultural force. The current events taking place in Gaza reflect this cultural disorder, as the destruction ensues any attempts to prevent further Israeli progress by the axis of resistance, acting as the immune system, is brought to an end by pro-Western states within their own civilizational body or foreign forces invited by those respective states. On other hand, the enraged Arab and Islamic populace, and diaspora in the West, are rendered ineffective epistemologically and ontologically by the shackles of neoliberalism and modernity with only defective or useless tools of resistance at hand, namely, social media posting and leftist-liberal protests which are only effective within the neoliberal paradigm outside of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East. It is as if the Islamic world has been dragged into an age of neo-Jahiliya, reverted back to our pre-cultural stage forcibly. The most ironic tendency arising from the Middle East however, is the lack of realization of the eschatological dimension of the current conflict taking place and the fragility of the Islamic civilization. The fact that the Islamic civilization will need a miracle and divine intervention, perhaps in the form of a Messiah or Mahdi, to revitalize and render itself effective is in itself an affirmation of Islamic-Magian eschatology. Spengler argued that although the Jewish nation has anchored itself onto Faustian Western culture, as “European-American world-cities shall have arrived at full maturity, the destiny of Jewry – at least of the Jewry in our midst – will be accomplished”. As Western civilization reaches its maturity, the Jewish nation wandering for two millennia return to their Magian cultural soil and professed Promised Land, fulfilling Jewish eschatological beliefs. The current plans to build the Third Temple, by the religious-nationalist Zionist coalition in Israel, is a clear mobilization of Jewish eschatological beliefs. Spengler additionally asserted, that like some older and more “fellahized” civilizations (China and India), “Islam has soil under it”, meaning it has the potential to revive its primordial spirit if it is capable of unifying its civilizational body. In an eschatological age, that would require an affirmation of Islamic eschatological beliefs, and a spiritual reformation or revival. That is, a revival of the actual form of Islam that would allow for the civilization as a whole to emerge as a pole in an emerging multipolar order. All in all, the future looks bleak...