Got to be the least self-confident belief system in the history of mankind.
Laugh at its founder in a cartoon, and they’ll kill you.
Burn its founding text, and they’ll kill you.
Leave the fold, and they’ll kill you.
Reminds me of that wonderful Rory Breaker threat to Nick the Greek: “If you hold back anything, I’ll kill ya. If you bend the truth or I think you’re bending the truth, I’ll kill ya. If you forget anything, I’ll kill ya. In fact, you’re gonna have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now, do you understand everything I’ve just said? ‘Cause if you don’t, I’ll kill ya!”
It’s a “perfectionist” belief system. The Koran is the perfectly transcribed word of allah. Mohammed was the perfect man, etc. It cannot bend or adapt. It attacks and kills, or it withers and stagnates, but it cannot survive a challenge to its perfectionism.
If the black moon rock turned into a vast crater, islam would be finished just as completely as the aztec and inca religions when the Spanish killed their “living gods.”
Psycho: The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. And I don’t like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you. Also, I don’t like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I’ll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.