Nothing to see here, move along

[Fragony]

Bin Laden was an engineer and Sayyid Qotb worked as a teacher. Hassan al-Banna was a doctor.

These are not backwards peasants and witch doctors, these are people with a high level of education who have often lived and worked in the West as well. It has very little to do with their actual religion, but it's much more an answer to (perceived) imperialism. That's why Arab socialism and pan-Arabism was so popular in the 50's and 60's, and when that didn't work, people were drawn to another "safe haven": Islamic fundamentalism.

What goes for being an engineer there doesn't exactly equal what it does here, everything looks good if you just rolled of the mountain. And we are talking about here here. It are simply the questions asked being answared. And me don't liking the answers. We have a problem here, we have a hatefull religion here that is catered by self-congratulating guttmensch, practised by people who are considered smart if they don't trip and fall when looking for a lost goat. Not of any use, too stupid. Not good as a neighbour either, their holy book says they should kill non-believers.

About 80% agrees that the commands in the Qu'ran are not open to interpetration, what an enrichment to our culture.