Against the Dictatorship
of Allah:
Declaration of the Surrealists of Pakistan (in exile), circa 1978
We spit on the whole dumb charade
disguised as common sense, reason, logic, realism and rationalism
of the "enlightened" spectators of human misery known
as scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, professors, industrialists,
patriots, soldiers and pimps of literature who - foolishly playing
hide-and-seek with each other and with everybody else, and amusingly
committed to nothing but the perpetration of their cruel and heartless
regimes - hide behind the hideous and putrefying carcass of Islam.
Only by maintaining an incessant
vigilance of desire will we be able to destroy such vermin, as well
as the decadent notions they uphold: repressive morality, salvation,
work, discipline, the fatherland, piety, sacrifice, the family and
"national unity".
***
We shall show no mercy toward
Islam, this 1400-year-old tyranny. We shall ceaselessly injure the
reputations of all the degenerate opportunists who continue to propound
it.
We shall curse and abuse this
vainglorious affliction which is only a petty variation of the Judeo-Christian,
Greco-Roman heritage that underlies all the modern-day eccrinologies
of scum known more or less synonymously as capitalism, stalinism,
maoism, fascism, nazism, parliamentarianism, constitutionalism,
democracy and all other irrelevant and egregiously imbecile terms
designed solely to embalm, embellish and perpetuate the intrinsic
slavery of a moronic and senile social order.
***
In the spirit of joyously impious
wizardry and implacably subversive fraternity, we are prepared to
join forces with any and all who express, in theory and practice,
their unreservedly revolutionary opposition to all systems of exploitation
and humiliation.
We shall support all those who,
wherever they may be, raise "insolent questions and ruthless
challenges", and who "see what everyone else prefers not
to see": all those "irreconciliable recalcitrants who
continue to fling in the face of bourgeois law and order messages
of thoroughgoing demoralization, insults, blasphemies, imprecations
and threats, and who do not conceal the fact that they are out to
make life as miserable as possible for everyone who pretends to
be satisfied with things as they are"
(Franklin Rosemont, "The Crisis of the Imagination",
in Arsenal / Surrealist Subversion No. 2, 1973).
The inexpungible exorbitance
of our unending and necessarily impetuous wrath will rapturously
obliterate the virulently mendacious outpourings of that blithering
and shameful image of oppression, Allah, as well as all his filthy
seraphim.
***
With all of struggling humanity
we spit on the divinity of Allah! The Kaaba will be surrounded and
burned!
Meanwhile, our albatrosses -
emblems of our inspired revenge - will telekinetically swell our
desires, and yours, as they fly indolently over the salty seas filled
by the blood and tears of all oppressors!
