Unlike other religions, Islam commands the institutionalisation of the supremacy of Muslims over normal people. Where modern liberal western countries consider white supremacy to be a vile aberration, Islamic supremacy is the mainstream version of Islam. It is the only version, as Islam is unable to adapt. Setting up a fair society does not just require some kind of reform or reinterpretation of Islam. It requires the total rejection of Islam. This is why the middle east is such a mess.

This goes beyond “we're going to heaven and you're not”. It goes beyond “we don't socialise with the heathens”. Instead, Islam commands the creation of an entire society, culture and judicial system that unfairly discriminates against normal people. The closest modern equivalent to this was the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Muslim religion does not do this in a vague, general manner, but instead provides great detail on how normal people are to be treated unfairly and made to feel inferior. For example, the testimony of a normal person in court has less value because they lie. Normal people are not even allowed to testify against a Muslim in court, even if they are right and the Muslim is wrong. The Muslim is 'by definition' correct, and the normal person is lying, so you only need to obtain the testimony of the Muslim. Normal people can be kept by Muslims as slaves. This is especially true of women, who can be kept as sex slaves. In fact all women get 'special' treatment. Their job is to make babies and serve their husbands desires.

This unfairness pervades Muslim society from the ground up and from the top down. Democracy is forbidden. Normal people have no say in government. In fact, many Muslims have no say in government. The only people who have a say are those of the dominant Muslim group who get to choose the dictator.

Islam claims to be a way of establishing an entire society, but it fails every day in this role. It fails spectacularly. For this reason I think that Islam is not designed to create a stable society, but to maintain dictatorship. It is designed to prevent change. It was designed by those in political power to maintain that political power. It contains no useful instructions for creating that power from scratch or overthrowing the government. That would defeat its original purpose. This is why the Islamic empire lasted so long, and why it's collapse was total, catastrophic and irreversible. Muslims cannot even get past the first step of creating a new one. As soon as they even get close, they immediately start killing each other over who gets to be dictator. The winner of this is inevitably the person who fights the dirtiest, not the one who is the most 'pious' Muslim. Inevitably, foreign powers intervene whenever it is convenient for them. Occasionally this is sufficient for Muslims to unite in order to repel the foreign power, provided that the interference is done in broad daylight for all to see. But then as soon as they get close to success, they start killing each other again for the right to be dictator, creating another power vaccuum. This is not somehow unIslamic, as Islam requires Muslims to set up a dictatorship. Not just any old dictatorship either, but the best Islamic dictatorship they can get. That means killing those who are trying to set up a less than perfect dictatorship. So Sunnis kill Shites and Shites kill Sunnis, all in the name of Islam. Not just a misunderstanding of Islam, but to fulfill the true purpose of Islam.