Is Islam the ‘Stupidest Religion’?

Back in 2001, the French author Michel Houellebecq was accused of ‘inciting racial hatred’ for calling Islam ‘the stupidest religion’. This claim, made most famously by Houellebecq but also by many others, is that there is something about Islam that makes its adherents mindless. In one of the most comprehensive attempts to make this claim — Edward Dutton’s Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective — Dutton states that ‘Muslims are…