“Mecca and Medina” —Mohammed supposedly wrote the Koran in those two cities. In Mecca, he won only 100 or so believers, in something like 12 years of non-stop work. At this early point his writings were strictly religions, not political.
He got sick of his lukewarm success and moved to Medina, where he was angry and VERY VERY political. That’s where all his violent writings come from.
And in Medina with that tone change he was able to take over the entire Arabian Peninsula before his death —they ALL became Muslims.
Islam is PRIMARILY a political movement, with some religious parseley on the side of the plate.
NO ONE can effectively understand our Muslim enemy without first understanding this very fundamental fact.
When you give people permission to be land pirates as long as they give part of it to you/Allah and spread the faith, it tends to attract the most vicious thugs. Especially when they get unlimited sex this lifetime and the next for doing so.
It’s a roving theocracy.