Islam and Ra

[jafar]

So depending on what life throws at you, presenting the other cheek could be a reasonable response. But if the catalyst is a bull chasing you, a wiser action could be of great benefit.

Yes.. either flee, which supposedly what Mohammed and friends have done by migrating.

And even after fleeing the bull keep chasing you, thus you have no other choice now but to try disabling the raging bull, which supposedly what Mohammed and friends also have done.

After the bull has been disabled and pacified an STO will not seek to drive the bulls into extinction but try to sympathize and understand the perspective of the bull, why is he raging? why is he chasing?
And try to solve the 'problem' as seen by the bull and not keeping any hatred and vengeful intention towards the bull, regardless of the damage that the bull had done.
Which perhaps what Mohammed and friends also have done as they apparently have reached a kind of agreement with the 'chaser' and include the once 'chaser / attacker' into their own group.
But this action can be seen as 'weakness' or 'exploit' from STS perspective.

Thus unlike fairy tale where the story ends with 'and they lived happily ever after', the dynamic push and pull between STS & STO in close interaction with each others resulted in the next following chapters where the STS managed to took the dominant role and formalized the 'control mechanism' in a form of 'yet another organized religion'. Following the example of neighboring Byzantium Roman Empire and Persian Empire.

It doesn't mean that the STO's ceased to exist, it just their presence are not well recorded and easy to detect as the one who wrote history are usually those who has control over resources and media (ie: Scrolls/Stone Tablet) . That is a consistent pattern that still ring true even up until today.