A critique of Frantz Fanon’s abandonment neurosis and secular-humanist ideology: Islam, non-violence, and anti-colonial movements

Frantz Fanon's atheistic analytical framework is accented by epistemic violence as it adheres to a secular gaze reifying Reason over Revelation. Fanon's ambivalence toward religion remains largely uninterrogated, as scholars reference his work either as a "Gospel" for "liberation" or an "objective" historical lens on Algeria's anti-colonial struggle. The manuscript examines Fanon's worldview being theoretically linked to the ontology of three "False Prophets" – Freud, Marx, and Darwin – who share five inter-related themes: "originality", "idolatry of reason", "rejection of Tradition", "denial of God", and finally, "denial of Man". It also revisits Albert Memmi's often-neglected analysis of Fanon, proposing that his abandonment neurosis reflects a deeper, subjective existential crisis. Not merely Fanon's inability to 'fit' in France or Algeria, but more fundamentally, his struggle to understand what it meant to be Martinican—his original self. Islamic Tradition and Sufism are identified as primary catalysts of Algerian decolonization. Albeit Fanon alludes to religion, his secular worldview and audience led to disapproval of the 'Church' and 'Mosque', favoring "scientific" categories of belonging shaped by Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Existentialism. Au lieu a conclusion, Fanon is juxtaposed with Sheikh Amadou Bamba's non-violent resistance to local chiefs and French colonial powers in modern-day Senegal. Unlike Fanon, Bamba emphasizes spiritual training and the primordial human essence revering God, as a roadmap mitigating temporal tribulations thus attaining psychological felicity.