Rape Is An Integral Part Of Islam: We May Not Want To Believe That, But It's True
Under Islam, Mohammed's behavior is to be emulated by Muslims. And yes, that's looting, raping, mass-murdering Mohammed. (Scroll down for references at the link.)

As I've written here before, I'm an atheist, but I can get behind the Jesus stuff of "feed the poor, take care of the sick," etc.

The ideology behind Islam, however, is pernicious and dangerous to our lives and freedoms in a way no other religion is at this time. (And by "our lives," in this I include Muslims who do not practice Islam in fundamentalist ways, and especially former Muslims.)

Janet L. Factor lays out at Quillette what anyone knowledgeable about Islam understands -- that Islam encourages rape, and Muslim polygyny is an integral part of this:

This, I submit, is the true source of the rift between the Muslim world and the secular world of the West. Islam never gave up polygyny. Instead it enshrined the practice in Sharia law, allowing men up to four wives, and concubines into the bargain. In doing so it made it impossible for women to rise in social status--a rise that seems so natural and inevitable to us--and condemned itself to suffer the ongoing societal instability created by large numbers of unattached young males.

Here, minus the pages of calculations, are just a few predictions of evolutionary theory about the consequences of polygyny. All have been thoroughly researched in humans and are solidly borne out by multiple converging lines of evidence in studies that are cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary. Further, the higher the degree of polygyny in a society, the stronger are the effects. These include:

1. Stringent controls on women in all aspects of life.
2. Decreased age of wives relative to husbands, sometimes to the point of pedophilia.
3. More children per woman, with less reproductive choice.
4. Higher infant mortality (but no so high as to offset the higher number of births).
5. Much greater domestic violence and child abuse.
6. Increased rates of crime, most especially rape and murder.
7. More frequent warfare.

Does this list paint a familiar picture? I could go on.

These problems and many others are endemic to societies that practice polygyny and they arise directly from it. It exacerbates conflict between individuals to such a degree that the resultant behavior is often of a kind we would term barbaric. And yet the system persists, because our biology favors it. In the absence of a strong cultural counter-force it will prevail.

Polygyny is the poisoned soil that nurtured the explosive growth of radical Islamism with its sexual obsessions and salacious sacralization of violence. The revolt of ISIS and Boko Haram is not at root a religious one; nor is it truly political or even economic. It is an evolutionary uprising of frustrated young men. They have arisen and seek to claim their place as head of a harem, if not here, in the afterlife.

Modernity requires monogamy. But will followers of Mohammed accept it?

Here are anthropologists Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, and Peter Richerson on "The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage":

We propose that the unusual package of norms and institutions that constitute modern monogamous marriage systems spread across Europe, and then the globe, because of the package's impact on the competitive success of the polities, nations and religions that adopted this cultural package.

Reducing the pool of unmarried men and levelling the reproductive playing field would have decreased crime, which would have spurred commerce, travel and the free flow of ideas and innovations. Greater security would have reduced transaction costs and both public and private security expenditures.

Instead of engaging in risky status-seeking endeavours, low-status males would be more likely to marry, thus becoming risk-averse and future-oriented, and focus on providing for their offspring in the long run. Higher status males, instead of seeking to attract additional wives, would make long-term investments and attend to their offsprings' security.

More personal security and less crime would have meant that many more individuals could shift to investing in long-term payoffs, including businesses, apprenticeships and education. Reduced demand for brides would have increased the age of first marriage for women and gender equality, which would have reduced total fertility.

These expectations are broadly consistent with historical patterns in pre-modern England during the lead up to the industrial revolution.