around the worship of this moon deity.
-He tells you with wide eyes that this moon god knows all, determines all and will either kill you or elevate you to heaven – depending on his mood and whether he believes [or it believes] that you have been sufficiently Muslim.
-He declaims with a gaping mouth that you must read and memorize the book around this cult called the Koran and prostrate yourself 5 times daily towards Mohammed’s family home and beg the moon deity for forgiveness. You must chatter these ritualised lines of prostration in Arabic – a language you don’t understand.
-You are informed by this animated Arab that in order to humiliate yourself you must raise your buttocks into the air and force your forehead onto the ground. You need to recognize that the moon deity controls all and that you are worthless – or so this man says.
-He pulls out the cult’s book and shows you some of its content. From what you can read the pages seem full of hate, violence, racism, supremacism and claims to universal rule and will to power. The thoroughly energized Arab man wags his finger in your face and solemnly intones that the book is holy, created by the moon god, and not to be touched by non-believers.
-He sits beside you and puts his hand on your knee soothing your concerns by imparting that this Arab cult – supported worldwide by 1.6 billion people – also demands that you travel at least once to Mecca, pay a lot of money to the cult’s institutions, kiss their main black rock, throw stones at imaginary little devils and run around their shrine. All part of the community spirit he smilingly assures you.
-And he gives you the best part as he