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Mr. Independent. I don’t have time to elaborate right now, but suffice it say that Mohammad was not really a religious leader in the sense most people in the west would recognise. He didn’t so much create a religion as a war machine and a state – an Islamic State, as in a Political Entity. The countries you mention, with the dubious exception of Pakistan, are not just dictatorships, they are Islamic Theocracies, modeled on the state founded by Mohammad and governed by Shariah law (with concommitant rules of dhimma for non-muslims). Jihad is not the “foreign policy” of dictatorships, it’s the foreign policy of Islam and Islamic states like Iran and Saudi Arabia. Don’t know if that answers your comment exactly, but if you want to learn more about islam, you’re certainly on the right trail and Raymond Ibrahim is a GREAT place to start. If it sparks your interest, might also want to check out the thesis of Stephen Coughlin, the DOD’s sole non-muslim expert on islamic law (before the “PC” got him). It’s called “To Our Great Detriment.”