My experience with Islam

[APeacefulWarrior]

Actually, I meant more basic achievements like "turning a hellhole backwater full of feuding villages into a united cohesive society nearly overnight."  And either way, on the topic of Mohammed and his message specifically, there's nothing in what either Ra or Q'uo says to suggest he wasn't a legitimate spiritual source.

Otherwise, frankly, every culture has their high points and low points.  If we wanted to start bickering and arguing over who killed who, the Europeans\Christians don't really have room to talk either considering the outright genocides that happened in the Americas.  When it comes down to it, EVERY culture in the world was barbaric by modern standards for pretty much all of its history up until very recent decades -if that- and so finger-pointing is pretty pointless. It's just lugging out cultural baggage that we probably should be packing away and moving on from.

But either way, personally, I prefer to look towards a future where humanity is united and at peace, rather than continuing to propagate a whole bunch of bad blood that has no real purpose except increasing tensions, making violence more likely, and threatening that peace coming about.  Which is another reason finger-pointing is kind of pointless.  It just puts more money in the pockets of those who profit off animosity without actually getting us any closer to peaceful solutions to working out various cultural differences.