Is Islam based?

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[–]VarangianRasputin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Islam is very much an Arabic thing. Considering how they couldn't get Spain to convert to Islam despite 800 years of dominance, and that Islam has no real mass-appeal outside of the Middle East and North Africa. A people's spirit and characteristics shape their religious beliefs (or the specifics). Put simply, it is clear that Non-Arabs will not willingly accept Islam en masse.

[–]PaxClownicahorses 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Non-Arab’s will not willingly accept Islam en masse

Lol no, the Persians, Southeast Asians and South Asians(1/3 of global Islamic population) played a significant role in Muslim history. However, in the case of these conversions, it took a few centuries for Islam to become the major religion(such as Bukhara, where the natives simply just left Islam when the Arab governor of the caliphate left, and only started seriously practising after they demolished the fire temple and gave them some money to attend the new mosque) while the MENA became Arabised quite quickly. But even after the nominal conversions of large regions to Islam, many of the converts just viewed it as some new religious tradition to add to their practises and syncretised it with Hindu and Buddhist practices (Punjab, Bengal, Malay archipelago). Ironically, colonisation helped these regions establish closer contact with more orthodox Islam in Hejaz, and solidified their Islamic practise today

[–]VarangianRasputin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I stand corrected.