I know the religion itself is excellent, but I have yet to see the religion itself purely practiced. Everywhere I have been, I've seen mostly culture and a tiny bit of religion mixed together and the whole new thing called Islam. For example, Islam preaches so many rights to women, yet in the countries themselves including Saudi Arabia, victims of rape are the guilty and the rapists are the ones who get away with it, since your own laws (not the religion, manmade laws injected into the once pure shariah) claim she needs 4 witnesses (again, religion itself states this is for married couples and accusations of adultery, for rape its the testimony of the woman and a confession from the man or evidence in which case the man is stoned according to hadith). How can you so easily defend the practices of the culture? I used to be a Muslim. I stopped because there are NO pure muslims in this world. I've been to 8 Muslim countries. I haven't seen it practiced anywhere and I HAVE seen laws going against it because males want to get away with everything while making marriage legal slavery.