The root problem with Islam is this: I think many Moslems are driven nuts, even if most do not become violent, because they live a terrible contradiction in their heads; on one hand they are raised to totally believe Islam is The Religion all humans must follow.
Unfortunately, the reality is that Moslem countries are in terrible shape and Moslems find themselves having to seek refuge in non Moslem countries or emigrate to them.
Once they do that, hard reality hits them: “Islam is the right belief, howcome this places are more prosperous and peaceful than our countries, how that is posdible while ignoring fundamental rules of the Quram?”
It is ligical a number of Moslems go nuts, particularly young men whose rigid ideas do not prepare them to succeed, have a nice car, money to invite a girl to dinner, etc.
It is as if the Moslem clock stopped and can not assimilate the idea that no religious belief is a universal objective truth; it is the subjective truth of the believer, no more.
Jews, Christians, Moslems, Hindus are 100% convinced their beliefs are true. Fortunately Christians learned in the Renaissance and the Enlighttenment (straight from the Greeks) the concept of freedom of belief.
It was not easy for them as the Inquisition proves. But slowly rhe Greek idea of democracy, that there are no absolute truths in social matters, that people, the community, must figure out through discussion and vote what are the right rules for the community and the individual.
From the Christians enlightened by Greek thought, the European Jews also accepted the concept, not without difficulty as Spinoza experienced.
Islam has not assimilated the concept. It started to study the Greeks, initially became fascinated, but soon the religious authorities felt uncomfortable and in the X century they shut the whole thing down.
It is time for Islam to accept orhers have the right to believe that Islam is not The Truth for them, just like Moslems have the right to reject the others and agnostics have the right to reject all of them. Likewise for Hindus.
Until Moslem children are raised to accept that Islam is The Truth but only for Moslems, Islam will continue to produce frustrated, aggressive and violent people because they are educated into the Irrational idea that Islam carries The Truth all humans must follow.
If such reform is not carried out Islam will destroy itself because it is irrational. The rational thing is to accept that humans in different places and times have different religions and that they valid for them. All religions perish sooner or later or have to change radically. So far the Jews have done the better job, perhaps because it never morphed into state religion, at least since they lost the Temple. We shall see what happens now they have Israel back.
All religions carry irrational stuff from the point of view of orher religions or of agnostics.
The Greeks figured out (is there anything the Greeks did not figure out?) that religion is subjective, a long time ago and never tried to convert the peoples they conquered, likewise the Romans, to some extent they even adopted the beliefs of the locals.
If Islam does not carry out this reform of accepting the beliefs of others it will perish. Furthermore, the sort on psychological burka Islam places over the minds of Moslems limits their ability to keep up with other less rigid beliefs and their societies.
Moslems will be deported by the millions if so many of them continue to resort to self destructive actions like the one ib Australia a few days ago.
