[aWolverine]

I’d be happy to hear prayers from anyone, regardless of sect or religion (leaving Islam aside again, sorry I’m sort of negative about them now).

Don't feel bad. Islam is not a religion. It is a political system that uses some theological terms and concepts in order to wield psychological power. It doesn't even begin to be internally consistent enough to be a religion, let alone a metaphysical system for explaining observable phenomena.

[little jeremiah]

I have or used to have two translations of the Koran and tried to read some - not for inspiration, but information - and it was so extremely boring I could not get very far, maybe 100 plus pages.

But the far worse thing is their history - bloody aggression and forcible conversion from the very beginning to this morning. Basically all Muslims are descendents of those forced into Islam. All descendents other than the handful who voluntarily listened to and followed Mohammed were previously Christians, Jews, Hindus, animists, Buddhists, Jains and probably a few more subsets. And since once born a Muslim by Sharia law a person cannot leave, it’s more like a prison than anything else.

Of course, there are recent converts in prisons.