Going along with your comment is this quote:
To the Muslim, history is a series of accidents that in no way affect the nontemporal principles of Islam. He is more interested in knowing and "realizing" these principles than in cultivating originality and change as intrinsic virtues. The symbol of Islamic civilization is not a flowing river, but the cube of the Kaaba, the stability of which symbolizes the permanent and immutable character of Islam.
Science and Civilization in Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Official Statement of Al Qaeda in The Country of Two Rivers! Second Operation on Baghdad!!
A lion, according to the Lions of the Best Brigade, that of Istichadiyin rushed forth today, Saturday, April 24-05 and carried out a heroic operation against a convoy of Jews and Christians on the highway near the neighborhood of Al Adel in Baghdad. He proclaimed Allah Akbar and exploded. He sold his life to The Beneficent, but what better trade than this one.
To you the happiness of the gardens of paradise, servant of Mercy, that Allah gather us with you on the very high gardens of paradise.