Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
Arab society in the pre-modern age was for millenia a moon worshipping cult of death. The Arab and Muslim hatred of women, the Jew, the infidel and the follower of Christ is testimony to this long historical pedigree of savagery and blood-lust. It is no mystery why human blood must be spilled by Arabs and Muslims when their 'enemy' or inferiors are killed. The cult needs blood to purify itself, and render pure again, what was made impure by Jews, Christians, women, and anyone not a part of the death cult.
Necks are cut; faces disfigured after gang rapes; female heads smashed in with stones; innocents liquidated by homicide bombers; blood of non-fundamentalist Muslims spilled; all to appease the cult of Ali-ilah and purify the world, through the sacrifice of human impurity. How many humans have been murdered, beheaded, stoned to death, mutilated and exterminated en-masse, thanks to the Arab – Islamic death cult over 1400 years ? More than 300 million. And yet, Islam is deemed to be a 'religion' ? What a fantasy.
The Arab-Muslim world is largely illiterate. Education which misses some 30-50% of the population, focuses for the most part on the cult of death – the Koran, Islamic law, Islamic history and Islamic supremacism. Little pertaining to the creation of modern society – technology, finance, business, engineering, ethics, morality, individualism, respect for women and the disadvantaged – finds its way into Arab and Muslim re-education. Education is not to improve the mind, but to saturate with propaganda and create a submissive and pliant community.
This must be true, because for the past 1000 years the Arab and Muslim world has created exactly nothing of value. The Arab enlightenment never existed – they simply squatted on superior empires and civilisations. All of the so-called 'inventions' made by the Arabs were translations and the recrudescence of ancient ideas committed by Christians, Jews, Greeks and Persians. Even today the Western discovery and usage of oil is an event that never would have occurred if left to Arab 'civilisation'. The combustion engine, the physics and engineering of oil refining and usage was and is, completely beyond the capability of the Arab-Muslim death cult.
Islam is a cult not only of death but also of pre-destination, racism, supremacism and the establishment of a society which mitigates against freedom, free-will, thinking, loving, and responsibility. How can a cult of death be a participant in building a modern world system ? Why would anyone defend such a system of totality and hate ?
According to the United Nations [better named the Useless Nimbobs], on a per annum basis, the Arabs kill some 10.000 women in dis-honor killings; some 10-20.000 female babies out of family shame for bearing a girl and not a boy; and of course the Arabs murder countless Jews and other insufficiently Muslim Arabs. In Iran alone, in the past 30 years, some 100.000 people have been murdered by the fundamentalist regime – many of them girls and women for 'crimes' of honour, or 'shame' including looking men in the eye; not being sufficiently covered by bed-sheets in public, or having their own bank accounts. For infidelity many – thousands no doubt – of Iranian women have been stoned to death since 1979. And the worst aspect is that a plurality of Arabs, Muslims and Iranians support such fundamentalist savagery.
It is a myth that a majority of Iranians, and most Arabs support Western concepts of democracy, freedom, human rights and individual responsibility. They don't and no evidence exists for the assumption that they do. Islamic and Arab history – male-dominated; racist; misogynist; anti-modern; desiring to establish a cult of submission and blood – is an obvious template of what is called 'orientalism'. A program of hatred not only of the individual, but of life.
Only in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the point of American military power, is there hope for true reform. Without military intervention Arab and Muslim society will never be modernized. Without being defeated in war, Islam will never eschew the cult of death for the cult of life. Death cults don't reform themselves because some liberal-left wing moron at a Western university drones on about it being a 'religion' or some tree-hugging imbecile donates chocolates and tears for the Arab-Muslim fascist-group of choice.
The Arabs and Muslims have always been opposed to civilization and the modern world. They have never been interested in furthering modernity or the pursuit of individual happiness. The cult of death is by its very nature oriented to destroying life. Jews, Blacks, the Female, Christians, Hindus, and anyone who is opposed to the fundamentalist nonsense called the Koran is marked for destruction. And yet, pious voices in the West, extolling the mindlessness of multi-culturalism and cultural relativity, pronounces that such a program is 'religious'.
One supposes that the death cults of Hitlerism, Maoism, Castroism and Russian fascism were also expressions of 'religiosity'.