Defanging Islam

    Having declared the humble objective of defanging Muslim of its violence, I was relieved to find that there have been non-violent sects in Islam with the best know being the Mutazila. Not only that, the Mutazila were the dominant sect in the ninth century according to the book I am using for this discussion, Islam And Democracy: Fear Of The Modern World (1992 by Fatema Mernissi. Some know her as the psychiatrist of Islam. Unfortunately, her therapy hasn't worked. In fact, since 1992 the patient seems to have become much worse. Some parts of the patient are now floridly psychotic! They have not only taken over the hospital, but established their own country or caliphate, aided by a friendly doctor, Dr. Barrack Obama, who took the hospital staff- American troops- out of the lunatic asylum and assured us that the ones acting out in the loony bin were just "junior varsity."
    The Mutazia wanted reason- "aaql"- and personal opinion- "ray'-back into the political process which in the Muslim world means not just the political system but everywhere in the culture since the political system or Islam is totalitarian.
As Stalin said of this totalitarian state, "Everything belongs to the State." so Sharia Islam insists that "Everything belongs to Sharia."
    However, the establishment or the power structure went after the Mutazia in an organized way, much like the Criminal going after the Stupid Jerk in America's presidential campaign. The Mutazia were condemned as philosophers-
"falasifa" who were corrupting Islam with