One great analogy I recently heard from an eminent Pakistani intellectual(one of the handful who make sense):
"Just like the feet of women were tightly bound with cloth at an early age because small feet were considered desirable in medieval China, the brain of the Muslim has been bound with dogma from an early age. By the time a Muslim man grows up, he is incapable of thinking for himself, because his brain has been crushed and unable to grow because that is what is desirable in Islam. If you put a powerful giant in a small enough cage for ten years, even he would come out hunchbacked and deformed and nonthreatening."
"Nonthreatening" being the key word here.
They say that Muslims used to rule the world, which is the biggest lie ever told. Certain powerful individuals ruled the world in the name of Islam. They plundered, raped, killed and conquered in the name of Islam, but the power and wealth and prosperity was only in their hands and their families'. The average Muslim has always been, and still is, an ignorant, poor savage who can be easily commanded into believing anything and then giving up his life for it. The average Muslim has always been cannon fodder in the power games of the ruling class.
They talk about how today's Islamists have "distorted" their "peaceful" religion, but history can prove that this culture of violence, plundering and conquest was started by Muhammad himself. Islam has always been violent. Islam has always been contemptuous of women. Islam has always been ignorant. Islam, unlike Christianity, is still waiting for its Reformation.
