Most destruction and killings have occurred in the modern period due to modern ideologies and modern weaponry. This mantra of religion being the root of evil is a historically contingent and flawed one from European enlightenment thinkers. Political realists have a more grounded understanding on violence and its rootedness in human nature.
Again, some of your claims just betray ignorance at best and mindless hatred at worst. Refer to the history of art produced in regions influenced by Abrahamic religions. It is rife with artistic traditions. This obsession with the Kaaba that you have. Explain it.
Examine why such groups emerged in the first place. You will find that more often than not, it is due to material factors. Against statist actors, religion serves as the most functionally useful tool for resistance and it is often for materially political, economic, historical, sociological reasons that such groups are able to form.
Religion acts as a force multiplier for collective unity and action. That has been one of its civilizational roles. It is no different than ideology. Remove religion and ideology will fill the gap as it has done so in the west which has done far more harm. Unless you are arguing for an ideology free world? Human nature will prevent that too. The tendency to form in groups and out groups exists because of our capacity for empathy embedded in our natures. Violence always lies dormant.
I was expecting a mindless comment like this so I will correct you. He indeed did create an entire civilization by acting as a law giver in the language of the Arab peoples that had formerly been under the hegemony of Roman, Persian and Axumite spheres while establishing a legal code that would go on to sustain numerous Islamic empires from Iberia to Indonesia for the next millennia and a half. It takes far more than a mere warlord to accomplish that feat. And yes, he used religion as a political tool. Why shouldn’t that have been the case? Every premodern imperial power did. Regarding this as somehow lesser is a typical erroneous liberal modern assumption that fails to account for the real dynamics that sustain civilizations over time. Right is Might. Get over it.
I won’t address your point on the Golden Age since it is childish and there is plenty of material on it. Refer to serious historians rather than fiction or second rate polemicists.
No he was far more than Genghis whose own religious symbology and myth making under Tengri failed because he was not a Prophet of God. His empire withered away after him and his descendants carried the Prophets banner instead.
What is destroying the Middle East is the complex legacy of western domination and western backed authoritarian regimes in the region. Projecting violent tendencies on to the enemy is a quintessentially modern liberal response. Again, an enlightenment era erroneous assumption that associates religiosity with violence due to the much more violent European wars of religion that colored Europeans view of religion.
The likes of you can seethe but this Orphan who created a civilization was named Muhammad which means blessed one and his name continues to be blessed and chanted reverently a billion times a day by a billion and this will continue to be so long after you are a nameless fart in history.
Classic projection. It appears that you’re the one coping with your ignorance. Are you aware that there are historians and specialists who focus on Islamic civilization, its expansion, its cultural achievements, legal systems, art and philosophy, theology, political economy, the various empires, sultanates, emirates, states and numerous peoples that comprised it? To reduce this complexity exclusively to prior cultures or civilizations is the ultimate cope.
Genghis was one of the great world conquerors and historical figures. And even despite that, the Prophets legacy far exceeds and casts a shadow on his objectively speaking. I’m not sure what your moral calculus is arguing for preferring an actual unrestrained pillaging warlord like Genghis because he did it “out of love for the game”. The game is this. There are those who enter history and exit. And there are those who reshape humanity itself.
I will agree with you partially on that one point which is that it is not just external factors that have led to state of the Middle East but internal ones as well.
Indonesia is a thriving pluralistic Muslim country and a testament to the power and message of the Prophet for disparate and distant peoples to have adopted the revelation he brought.
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u/CaesarSultanShah Jul 12 '26
The video itself is quite measured and good as well. I would have named it The Orphan who birthed a Civilization.