Woman raised Muslim describes what a perfect Muslim is

[midnight rambler]

An example of a perfect Muslim would be a murdering, thieving member of IS.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGE2eBUdlQ

[Cebu_4_2]

She seems angry...

[vacuum]

I do wish I knew more about the religion itself.

I've only really talked with/discussed the religion with one muslim at one point in time. He really seemed to emphasize the absoluteness and singularity of Allah as god, and discussion really went nowhere.

It reminds me of the pyramids. A system of control where each layer has absolute control of the layer beneath it Allah > mohamed > mullahs > men > women, plus you've got the infadels beneath that.

Christianity is kind of opposite of that, as in god incarnated into a man. And that man said that anyone could be like him.

I genuinely think that the environment might be an inherent cause of these differences. As in, a bunch of nomadic bedouin tribes living in the desert are more likely to be genetically successful by marauding and killing and enslaving their neighbors than another tribe which is empathetic. The empathetic one just gets wiped out.

On the other hand, if you live europe and you have to survive the winter every year, perhaps the marauding tribes eventually get frozen out one year and the empathetic tribes work together and help each other survive. Maybe one manages to kill a mammoth and shares the meat with friendly tribes, etc. The marauding tribe doesn't have as nice of fur coats because half of their women are captives and don't care about their men. They have to keep their numbers up to be able to overtake neighboring tribes, but as a consequence they don't have enough food. They get desperate and attack but get hit by a cold storm, they're half dead by the time they do their attack and are easily repelled by the smaller but well-prepared village that was a little too far away.

Game theory predicts that one set of behaviors will be more successful in the middle east, and another set of behaviors will be successful in europe. That's how you ultimately end up with these different religions. That's my hypothesis. And we're seeing right now which behaviors will be successful in the modern world. So yes it is a religion issue, but I think a lot of it is also a cultural thing and a way of thinking.

[palani]

I think a lot of it is also a cultural thing and a way of thinking.
Examine the architecture of homes in the middle east for one clue as to the nature of their society. Homes are constructed to be defensive. Interior courtyard. No windows looking out. Narrow door that can be more easily defended.

[ShortJohnSilver]

I think the elephant in the room is Sufism - all the other branches of Islam have attacked them. I can't find many cases where Sufis were terrorists or even tried very hard to expand their territory, at least in modern times. Maybe that is why they are hated by the rest...

There is this, showing how the Sufi Chechens were brought into Wahhabism, with a concomitant increase in violence: http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2875#.Vmbzgb92Ou8

[mick silver]

it does make it hard to get in but there are tools one can used to make a new door way
Examine the architecture of homes in the middle east for one clue as to the nature of their society. Homes are constructed to be defensive. Interior courtyard. No windows looking out. Narrow door that can be more easily defended.