A major component of the problem is that Islam makes so many promises to its adherent, mainly men, in this world, concerning their relative status in life. Muslims are to dominate and not be dominated, provided they follow Allah’s will. Fine, for 7th century Arabia and the areas to which Islam subsequently spread by the sword, when the opposition to Muslims was even more disorganized peoples.
The problem is, the world Muslims face today could wipe Islam and every Muslim off the face of the earth within a matter of a few years, tops. Add to that the fact that Islamic rituals, especially the five times a day praying, simply are inconducive to attaining anything resembling a dominant position in the modern world. So, Muslim men end up in a humiliating position relative to the infidel men and they take it out on their women.
OK, that’s bad enough, but they also take the fact that they are humiliated and interpret that to mean that they aren’t following Islam strictly enough, which opens them up to radicalization by adherents of the stricter schools of Islam. These schools of thought, based as they are much more strictly on the later life of Muhammed and his band of followers, will inevitably tend toward the martial life, with all that entails in terms of treatment toward women and non-Muslim men.
So, what Muslim men have to come to realize is that sometimes they’ll dominate and sometimes they’ll be dominated, precisely because the Koran is not the actual word of God, hence Allah’s ability to actually dole out political favors in the real world is nil. It’s that simple.
What Hirsi Ali says about Islam is an affront to Muslims and to anyone who knows anything about Islam. When, for instance, she claims that our prophet and our holy book, the Koran, are a fiction, she insults all Muslims and puts a smirk on the faces of all historians of Islam. Of course, Hirsi Ali has every right to turn her back on Islam in the name of religious freedom and this is what she has done. But she should not abuse the religion just to score points cheaply for herself’
The Koran is a fiction. One doesn’t need to “claim” this is true, it is scientifically demonstrably true. The philological evidence that the Koran was put together over time and after the death of Muhammed is incontrovertible by any of the means of modern linguistic science. Believing that the Koran, or any other book in the history of the world, has an extratemporal origin is completely delusional and not worthy of debate in the slightest. Someone adhering to such a belief should be locked in a mental institution with the key thrown away and the educational system that produced such an individual should be dismantled immediately. The world has grown too small to be accepting of such delusions as it once was.
