My experience with Islam

[APeacefulWarrior]

Yeah.. a 6D entity choosing to incarnate in those times and in that particular area must've had so much courage.
Among the kind of people who used to bury female children alive.

Yeah, I think that's one thing people are often missing when they talk about Mohammed and the Quran:  just how much of a lawless uncivilized backwater the Arabian Peninsula was when Mohammed first arrived on the scene.   It was mostly just various tribes and warlords, constantly feuding, with a handful of semi-civilized city-states like Mecca and Medina which were largely controlled by merchant-princes.  Say what you will about the applicability of many of the Quran's rules to life today... but at the time, the rapidity with which the Peninsula united under a single set of laws and grew into a major power was borderline miraculous.

Within only 200-300 years or so, the Islamic Kingdoms really were among the most advanced and prosperous civilizations on Earth at the time.

(And this out of a land so barren and anarchistic that Alexander the Great just passed it by without even considering it worth conquering!)  

The only time another world power has so quickly emerged was America, and even then, it was basically formed out of importing the culture and technology of Europe wholesale.  Mohammed was starting almost from scratch, aside from building his teachings off of the existing Judeo-Christian traditions.  Not to mention that, as I understand it, most or all of the laws in the Quran were largely based on reforming existing tribal practices to make them less destructive. 

My sincere hope is that Islam today will get past their current growing pains and figure out how to co-exist in the modern connected globalized world... but from a historical perspective, it's hard not to see Mohammed's mission as being mostly successful.  At least in the short-term.  Once we're talking about 1,000+ years after his death, all bets are off - just like they would be for anyone in similar circumstances.