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".

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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.

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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.

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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!