.... It is the mind-forged manacles of Islam that explains the many failures of Muslim states and societies, that explains their penchant for despotism, and the certainty that even the overturning of a despot -- if that despot also managed to suppress Islam as a political force -- will lead not to greater good but a greater mess.
It is Islam that encourages the mental submission that leads to despots. It is Islam that creates a world, the world described in Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira, that is full of violence and aggression, that is devoid of any sense of intelligent compromise, that posits a world where there are only two possible outcomes: that of Victor and that of Vanquished. [The Iconoclast] Read more
