Western culture even though his native dialect was Dutch and not Arabic. Islam was his new identity and it would be Islam that would protect him against all the hostile forces around him. It gave him a sense of power, a meaning, a sense of belonging and he would live for Islam alone. Mohammed often wrote bizarre writing, which he posted on the Internet, saying how Westerners are slaves to the entertainment culture and are seduced by dance bars and gambling halls. Muslims were also slaves to the Western culture, but rescue was at hand, the knights of Islam would rise from the Netherlands and Holland would be the cradle of religious revolution. Mohammed’s problem with democracy was how people become sinful to immoral pleasures; he could not bear freedom in society, this made him frustrated so in his mind he has to destroy the civilization that tormented him (Buruma 2007
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