To Pray for peace: Stop praying and start acting

Yes Arab culture is not Islam. Yes Arab culture before Islam was a tolerant pagan culture which did not discriminate between religions and gods and goddesses. Along came Islam and the monotheistic dark ages descended on Arab culture. Now you have an Arab culture that is intolerant of anything that smells of polytheism shuts out pagan beliefs from within its borders and wants to impose the sterile monotheistic cult everywhere else. Arabs must regain their culture of old, the so called culture of their jahiliya, ignorant, times. That Arab culture respected women, they could take part in public debates, do business, were sometimes rulers, propose marriage.

It is virtually impossible. I say virtually because there are some who by inborn nature are inclined to such behaviour. But the large majority is guided to do it because of their belief in 'true Islam' Let me elaborate. Take the sharia, does it not sink to the depths of inhumanity when it demands stoning to death for adulterers. It requires four witnesses for rape. But if a woman becomes pregnant because of rape and she cannot produce four witnesses to rape she can be stoned to death. And the sharia demands death for apostacy. Is it humane to demand that people be put to death because of what they choose to believe.

Muslims have the example the Prophet himself set for inhuman behaviour. For merely criticising him he had several people, including a woman poet, put to death. That kind of inhuman behavuiour was what inspired the Muslims to go on a rampage because of the Danish cartoons, for the murders of Theo van Gogh's murder and Farag Foda. They also have the example of the prophet massacring whole groups of people for suspected intention to break a covenant. Read the Banu Quraiza story. You can of course argue that the history is suspect as some people have argued. But they are from the scriptures and history that are accepted across the Muslim world.

Here are two other reasons which show that true Islam is guiding these monster to growing depths of inhumanity.

002.216 Fighting is enjoined on you, and it is an object of dislike to you; and it may be that you dislike a thing while it is good for you, and it may be that you love a thing while it is evil for you, and Allah knows, while you do not know.

8:12 I shall terrorise the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them, because they oppose Allah and his apostle.

Please stop praying and start acting to defang this dangerous politico-religious ideology.