What I'm saying is that just because people are born into Islam doesn't necessarily mean they are followers.
I can't speak for wacko-extremist countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, but Iraq has been relatively secular for decades and as a result, there are a lot of "non-practicing" Muslims. Most of them believe in God, but many have disdained some of the tenets and do not go to the mosques. It is not unusual to meet Iraqis who enjoy alcoholic beverages and some even eat pork. (I know a few who simply cannot resist bacon.) You can buy pork at many of the butcher shops in Baghdad.
One of the struggles over the past few years has been the desire of Iran's puppets to impose Islamic rule in Iraq, but the people are resisting and are now gaining traction on that.
Christians, Sunnis and Shiites lived alongside each other here for years without any trouble. The trouble started when Iran's mullahs and their puppets like Moqtada al Sadr started stirring things up.
I remember seeing an interview with a young Kuwaiti man prior to the invasion. Asked his opinion about toppling Saddam, he replied how an open border with Iraq would give him access to booze and Saddam's casinos. Not the expected reply about what a threat and how evil Saddam is. Most folks in the world aren't particularly religious or even political. That is the real categorical imperative that we have to be aware of in our dealings with other cultures.
Thanks much and I don’t doubt you. Then the secular Muslims must rise up and dispose of the fundamentalist psychos who they allow to plague them
That includes Shiites such as Muktar al Sadr
Sunnis such as the Al Queda/Bathist terrorists
Don’t the religious Shiites rule Basra and the South where the British are departing from?