(February 4, 2013 at 11:07 am)Zone Wrote: It doesn't mean that if you were to somewhere remove Islam from that culture they would then become the kind of people who would sit around white piano with John Lenon and Yoko-Ono. They may do what they already do and justify it some other way. If religion is man made, and it seems like it is, then it would have been a product of the same culture they had to begin with not the other way around.
Hmm, that's the problem, Zone. Islam is not following the Arabic culture.
In countries which contain "native arabs", there are things which are common in their culture, all of them contradict Islam.
For example, your roots. Tribes there take pride in their origin, in saudi arabia most native marriages takes place according to the tribe, if one tribe is inferior then it doesn't deserve to marry from a better tribe.
Islam denies that, and consider it a sin, a "really big sin".
That's why you have many versions of Islam, each country tries to shape it to fit their culture.
Saudi Arabia doesn't forbid the tribal marriage, even though it's forbidden in theory.
You also have many other arabic habits, like "The Tar" or "The Vengeance", which means the following (I killed your brother in a gun fight. You come & kill me + all my family), and so on.
Looking into arabic culture & islam ; islam is the negation of the word arab. Maybe this post would give you a hint why Islam is so widespread.
