The assumption, not proven here or anywhere in Islam, that a revelation can be universal is not necessarily true, or at least has a higher burden of proof than a few verses of poetry comparing Allah to a variety of natural phenomena, so I take it that there is no universal message in Islam. So Muhammed copied a few ideas about God from the Old and New Testaments and added in some other stuff relevant to the people he was trying to recruit. That is the foundation for some kind of universal message?
I’ve studied enough philosophy in my day to make a qualified judgement and if this guy is the best explainer of the actual philosophy underlying Islam, the religion itself is more worthless than I initially thought. It’s pitiably laughable that anyone really believes this stuff, which is a bunch of derivative crap from a philosophical perspective. When Mohammed accused the Jews of corrupting their scriptures, he should have been more concerned with how he corrupted the message with his tendentious plagiarism.
If Muslims are all gung-ho for comparing Allah to natural phenomena maybe they should study Spinoza’s metaphysics. And while they’re at it, study his ethical views and reform Islamic ethics from the infidel-hating cesspool it currently is.
