@Senator_Armstrong @idea_enjoyer @verita84 @Big_Richard I can look at it for what it is from a purely secular race-realist POV— Islam is the set of beliefs that bedouin sand peoples and their adjacents needed to tame their savagery. That it was carried as a religion by a warlord may be appealing, but it was successful there because it fit better with those peoples and because of the sword. There are many more Christian conquerers who didn't take prepubescent child brides.