LifeOfTheMind, et al,

If anyone wants to probe into the mindset of the emotional/cultural/psychological dimensions of Islam, I HIGHLY recommend Ali Sina’s book, “Muhammad: A Psychobiography.” It is outstanding. He writes pretty well for a guy whose first language is not English. He had studied extensively, in his younger days, to be an Islamic cleric and scholar, eventually rejecting Islam as a fraud, idolatry, and a psychological prison. That’s where I got the pithy phrase that I use frequently, because IT FITS SO WELL: “Allah” as Muhammad’s sock puppet deity.

Once you read this book, you will understand the mind of the enemy like you’ve never understood it before. Being armed with a psychological profile of Muhammad, one can then understand how this enemy wages war and how it manages to avoid being pinned down by our faulty Western understanding.