Muhammad himself saw the Fall of Islam.
(Islam has abandoned its vegetarian and egalitarian roots.)
Muhammad's Description of the future Condition of Islam
as being like the rubbish of flood water, that is, scum, in the Final Days,
is much like the condition that now exists.
That is, Muhammad was commenting on the present times,
in which a coalition of governments, from Europe and the United States,
most of them Christian, as well as Jewish Israel,
are attacking and persecuting Islamic nations.

Orthodox Christians, the Taliban, Zionists have much in common.
Muhammad said that the Islamic nations would be preaching rubbish
compared to the original teachings of Islam.
The Shias are the potential peace keepers of Islam.
The unholy wars of fundamentalists are against all other religions
including Shamanism.
The spiritual superiority of indigenous cultures.
 

   The following words of Muhammad are quoted in the introduction to Bukhari's Hadith, a collection of statements by Muhammad, or comments on Muhammad, outside of the Quran.

  The condition of Islam described by Muhammad is obviously the condition of a people who have lost the heart of their spiritual heritage.  The description of the other nations as sharing with one another, like eating food from a wooden plate in front of them, is much like the condition of the United States, Israel, and their friends in Europe and Canada, as well as their usual collaborators in the United Nations.  This group is a coalition that has been formed numerous times in history and they form a far more powerful military force than do the divided nations of Islam.  And their intent is obvious to all who are truthful: The U.S., Israel, Canada and the European nations obviously want to share and profit from the oil and drug trade that Islamic countries now control. Besides a clear path to the oil line, there is also interest in the heroine and marijuana trade with which Afghanistan has been involved.

   Moreover the nations of the world have a radically perverted view of what true Islam is, because the view presented them is strictly from the Sunni tradition, which is constantly allied with political forces, with "princes and rulers," with the wealthy, towards whom Muhammad and the true remnant of Islam has always been unwilling to compromise.  In our own day, it is the Shia or Shi'ite Muslims who are the more pure remnant, for they prefer to live apart from the Machiavellian policies with which virtually all governments are involved.  An exception are the Shias in Iran who under Khoemini successfully overthrew the corrupt Pahlavi regime that was supported by the United States. These Shias do have political power.
 

   Before September 11 of 2001, the Taliban, Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan, destroyed Buddhist statues that had been part of the landscape and tradition of the country for ages. These acts had outraged virtually all people in the world outside of Muslim fundamentalists, who, much like fundamentalist Christians and many orthodox Christians, are absolutely disdainful of other religions.  It is not only the Muslim fundamentalists who are bigoted and tunnel-visioned, but fundamentalist and orthodox Christians as well as fundamentalist Zionists.  Anyone watching televangelists on T.V., or listening to the words of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and other Bible Belt preachers, know that they claim that all religions outside of their narrow-minded version of Christianity are pagans or infidels. And these fundamentalists, like the Taliban, are quick to denounce homosexuals, quick to subordinate women to the will of men, and quick to name all religious views different than their own as pagan or infidel.
 

    All the fundamentalist orthodoxies of the world, be they Jewish, Christian or Islamic, are guilty of attacking nations that have different religions.  The Jewish occupation of Palestine is a classic example.  The U.S. invasions of Korea and Vietnam, both of them Buddhist nations are also classic examples. So too the U.S. has been quick to invade and control the natural resources of Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rico and Panama, as well as being involved with the overthrow of Allende in Chili, and of collaborating with reactionary governments in Colombia.  All of these nations in Central and South America have indigenous populations which, like most of the Shia Muslims, would prefer to live in creation outside of the influence of imperialist governments.  So too the fundamentalist orthodox governments of Judaism, Christianity and Islam share another common bigotry, that of persecuting, jailing, and killing Shamanic people throughout the world, who are persecuted for using and dispensing plants.

   Those who persecute Shamanic people are fooling no one but themselves and their unthinking constituents who refuse to acknowledge what scholars throughout the world have acknowledged: that the Shamanic religion is primordial, that it has existed throughout the world since time immemorial, which can be seen not only in the Rg Vedas, one of the world's oldest body of religious documents, but in the testimonies of numerous cultures, ancient and modern, as we have seen from the scholarship of Wasson, Weil, Harner, and McKenna, just to mention a very few names of people who have documented the pervasive influence of Shamanism, which, we must be reminded, is a religion which is older than Judaism, the mother of both Christianity and Islam.

   But Shamanic people, like the very few true Jews and Christians, and the larger number of Shia or Shi'ites, do not wish to co-operate with the imperialism, elitism and slavery of the state governments of industrial nations, but instead prefer to live independently of such tyranny in nature.  But wherever fundamentalism has a hold, whether in the United States, Israel, or elsewhere where the rich elites have control over the poor, there such tyranny rules.  For example, in the United States, every attempt to set up Shamanic Temples has been met with resistance by the United States' government, which, in spite of the avalanche of evidence demonstrating that Shamanism is a legitimate religion that is even older than  their own religions, has shut down Shamanic Temples, has jailed their proponents, and has, with its well named "no tolerance" laws, also confiscated the homes and property of people who are Shamanic.  Such religious persecution and tyranny appears to be modeled after one of history's arch tyrants, whom, as we might expect, has been actually canonized with the Eastern Catholic Church, namely Constantine, who, because of his political power as Emperor of Rome, was able to fashion a Christianity that was modeled after the values, or rather, lack of values, that characterized Rome.  Therefore, contrary to the original teachings of Christianity, the scriptures of the New Testament, compiled and revised by the bishops who were not exiled by Constantine, sanctions the evil institutions of slavery, sexism, bigotry against homosexuals, as well as the disease-promoting diet of carnivorism, and the institution of animal sacrifices, contrary to the mission of Jesus as stated in "Epistle to the Hebrews" which condemns the animal sacrifices and states that it was Jesus' mission to abolish them.  Numerous chronicles of Roman History and numerous Church fathers document the fact that the earliest followers of Jesus, like Jesus, did not eat flesh.  And the Ebionite Gospel as discussed by Epiphanius in the fourth century describes the earliest Christians being described as Essenes and Nazarenes, both of which groups were vegetarian.

    What do all these persecuted groups have in common?  Except for the Shias of Iran, who may be a future inspiration for indigenous people throughout the world, all of these persecuted minorities are attempting to live more harmoniously with nature than their orthodox opponents.  Their lives are far more in conformity with the pristine morality that exists in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, a work which denounces industrial civilization.

    It is for this reason that indigenous cultures are far more superior to industrial cultures, morally and physically, as well as psychically.  In my travels to South and Central America, mainly Peru and Colombia, Mexico and Belize, but also a little in Ecuador and Brazil, it became quite apparent that those who lived outside of large cities are a far more moral and aware people, a people who are content with living more freely in nature, and with not being involved with the greed and industry of the cities. Indigenous people throughout the world have proven that as a group they are more moral than their city brethren precisely because of their reverence or respect for nature, or at least because of their refusal to exploit nature to the extent that the people in cities do.