Sharia Hate

    I'm reading several books on Islam and two thoughts have germinated. The first is the role of hate in Sharia Islam, in the Quaran, and in the Hadiths. The hate is there, but where did that hate come from? Did it just come from Mohammad who said he was quoting the Archangel Gabriel who in turn said he was quoting God? Say it was. Then why was it accepted by so many people? I am thinking psychologically now. Why did the Arabs need to hate? I have read that in Mohammad's raids against Jewish trading caravans, he called the Jews pigs and dogs, I believe it was. Psychologically, that's standard fare: You always villify the ones you are about to hurt. But were the Jews villified before Muhammad? What was going on with the Arabs when Muhammad came along? I thought I had read that the Arabs were considered bottom-feeders, some sort of desert carp, but I haven't been able to find that passage in my books. We soft American civilians have no emotional appreciation for how hard life was in the desert in the seventh century and before. If a race was looked down on, like the African was in 19th Century in America, by many, but certainly not all, Americans, and the race had to try to exist in the burning desert heat, then there is the possibility of tremendous hate for "the other."
    I believe that latest word in genetics is that plants can acquire traits and pass them on to the next generation, thus beating evolution handily. But I believe the current thought is that very few animals pass on acquired traits immediately to their offspring. But suppose that happened with Arabs: their aquired hate became genetically encoded so that their children hated genetically. Then there are 1.6 billion Muslims, and they aren't all Arabs. There's a sales slogan that it takes 9 positives to overcome 1 negative. Maybe hate is simply so powerful that it seizes people and very few work their way out of it. Let's remember too that Sharia also makes it very difficult to even talk outside the party line. The penalty is death. Leaving the party is a death sentence too. Sharia, like communism, is a totalitarian system. Like Stalin said, "Everything belongs to the State [meaning Stalin]. Sharia is the same. So working your way out of hate would be a death sentence if you told anyone you didn't hate the whomever you were told to hate. Isn't that a lovely way to live? Better to hate?
 Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, College of Willliam and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia. peternickerson12@yahoo.com