Whether popular or not, the al Quaida form of Islam is essentially a cult, in the worst sense of the word, using the forms and selected beliefs of Mohammed to support anti-social, non-cooperative attitudes. The vast majority of the Islam world seek survival and a modicum of brotherhood in the world. This fundamentalist minority seeks the transformation of the world into its own image by force.

And the funny thing is that if the divested the secular obsessions from the religous and metaphysical principles, they could stand a much better chance of converting the world. An anti-humanitarian religion founded on the heavyhanded constraint of human accomplishment and individuality starts the footrace out by shooting itself in the foot.

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