[colorado tanker]

It has always struck me as more than a little weird that Islam would choose as its holiest site the shrine of a preceding pagan religion, what with their extreme views of what monotheism is. It's not like Christians making a basilica into a church or Muslims making a church into a mosque; this is what they picked for their holiest site, the place to which they pray daily.

But then, that religion has always struck me as weird; something a half-civilized tribesman would come up with combining bits and pieces of whatever he'd heard of at the time.

[SunkenCiv]

He built a small empire on genocide, polygamy, and pedophilia, and that showed his successors what was possible from pretending to follow the tenets of that phony religion. Islam is profoundly opposed to capital formation (no banking, no charging interest), to free markets (everything is controlled by the despot and his kin), to all personal liberty, while requiring the most abominable acts from its practitioners. The reason there are no moderate Muzzies is that there is only one Islam; it’s not the doctrinal differences that make them different, it’s the common behavior that makes them all the same.