Lampreys. Like lampreys, almost every element of 'Islamic' culture is parasitic upon the technologies and concepts stolen from other peoples.
Parasitic Nomadic - like a slime-mould that travels...when times are lean the spores clump together into a wormlike creature and when times are good, the spores spread out...
Can't remember what it's called. But it isn't animal, it's a plantform...I think.
Lampreys are a good analogy, but don't lampreys also serve a cleansing function? They eat the bits that fall out of the host's mouth...
Hey, Google 'Islam Parasitic' and you'll find 193,000 entries...