whiskey,

I’ve generally been in agreement with your anthropological/psychological analysis of Islam. Except that my investigations of Islam have convinced me that there is no spiritual core whatsoever to it that can be a fallback position after you lay low the banditry and misogynistic aspects of it. There are those who want to see in it a monotheism that is in somehow a branch of of Judaism and Christianity. But it was never intended as that. I agree with Ali Sina’s psychological profile of Muhammad and that “Allah” is a sock puppet for Muhammad’s narcissistic needs. How do you “reform” something that is rotten to its core? I agree with Sina (who was at one time a cleric and scholar in Islam)that from its foundations Islam was a cult that took off because it invoked a deity to sanction criminal conduct. And it dressed up the naked egoism of a monster.