You forgot all the murdering and plundering Mohammed and his followers did...



>Let me illustrate a picture:
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>The setting is the Arabian Peninsula, scattered with all sorts of groups of people.
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>They're separated by many different ideas, but mainly are united by a common language.
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>They fight each other. They kill each other, banish each other from their lands.
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>They also have a great deal of foreign problems. They are fighting with outsiders, and outsiders are killing them.
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>That was some 1500 years ago. Then a man named Muhammad had a brilliant idea to stop the warring tribes.
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>He used the leading theological and philosophical developments of the day, and provided them to the Arabic people in one language, never to be translated.
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>His work proved to be a powerful statement of knowledge in a particularly beautiful form, and was thus successful.
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>Could a re-unification of the Muslim sects be the solution to creating security in Iraq and redeploying American forces?
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>It would take a brave and charismatic Muslim leader to accomplish such a lofty mission.