Islam...

(Another communal post)

To understand Islam, one has to understand its origins. Islam is a faith of desert. Its deity, Allah, is conjured from shifting sands of Arabia. A religion characterized by a barren landscape.
Since it demands nothing more than submission it holds appeal to tribal and nomads, mostly piety suffices. Contemplation is not required, uncertainty has no place in believer's mind. The submission gives rise to assurance in justness of cause and firmness in belief. From this comes the fervour, which at its peak is capable of subsuming civilizations.
But this fervour at its core is nihilist, it can absorb the vanquished and give false impression of creation, but that spark of creation is soon annihilated by urge to pay obseince to a a God which reside solely in mind, and who leaves no impression on the physical world, indeed he is not allowed to leave any impressions, becaue the it is certainity which believer covets not imagination.
Hence this infertile faith and the civilization this faith gives birth to has a reverse Midas touch. Anything it comes in contact is recreated in images of Arabia. Barren, shiftless, without dreams.