"The Talmudic/New Testament reaching to a higher ideal was either completely over Mohammed’s head or was understood but scorned by him. Thus his protégés, imitating his regression to de facto book-of-Judges standards, began spreading Islam by aggression, mayhem, intrigue and military conquest ... Lacking the image-of-God doctrine, Mohammed emphasized something else in its place—submission. The very name he gave to his new religion—Islam—means submission. Submission in Islam means submission to God, submission to Mohammed as the ultimate prophet of God, submission to the Koran as the ultimate revelation from God, submission of women to men and submission of everyone to the caliph, sultan, shah or whichever other kind of Muslim ruler is in power."