It takes a sophisticated mind to understand satire. The mass of Muslims are ignorant masses that can be stirred up like a herd of spooky cattle.
We live in a world where most human beings are quick to envy. Muslim hatred of the West is based on envy.
I once had a pet raccoon who would wet everything before eating it. He would put bread into his water pan and look in wordier when the bread dissolved. It's the same with primitive people who invader a civilized land. After a while they wound where everything they envied had gone. They do not understand that a civilization bust continually advance and rebuild to endure.
Look at South Africa, once the most civilized and prosperous nation in Africa. Blacks now dominate and rule South Africa, and it has gone to pot.
Look as Zimbabwe. Blacks took over the food production of the country and now they are starving. Primitive people believe things happen because of some natural element. It does not. It takes constant human achievement.
The Muslim world has not benefited from "the enlightenment." That is Bernard Lewis' theory. I agree with him. I lived in Saudi Arabia for 5 years in the 80s. I got to know many Muslims of many nationalities. Most of the ones that I knew were more disposed toward the USA and West. Still, their live revolved much more around Islam that ours did around Christianity. First, it is incomprehensible to most Americans that they would have to pray five times a day. I am lucky to go to church once a month. Second, Islam does influence their politics, while in the USA politics and religion are considered separate. Third, their culture is more embedded with Islamic concepts.
Islam can be tolerant of other faiths, particularly in countries outside the Middle East (Morocco, Turkey, Indonesia), however, Muslim clerics have tremendous political weight.
It is wrong to compare the Middle East to Southern Africa. The Middle East at one time had the most advanced civilizations in the world. Until the Mongul invasion in the 13th Century, Islam was more advanced than Europe. Half of the Muslim world was destroyed by the Monguls, and the other half never quite recovered.
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