In regards to 1 your comment is meaningless because you offer no proof or even define what "educated" means-you spit out a stereotype, an assumption, a generalization without any proof. Education can come on the streets and from life experience or it can come from books.
Interesting but most religious believe the reason we suffer hardship is to educate ourselves, to develop insight as to what causes suffering by feeling it so we can then help prevent it. That has nothing to do with books and everything to do with humility. That is the point I was making. Your repeating that meaningless phrase does not make it any more valid.
My criticism of Islam as it is all religions is that when they are hijacked by so called spokespersons who can't be questioned, that the inability to question those spokespersons necessarily means that religion through its leader is being politically coercive and anti-democratic. In the case of Islam as it is widely practiced today, that is what happens and in the case of Islam the Koran says its very purpose is to impose itself as a form of government control on the masses and not permit free discussion and demand blind obedience. That makes it fascist and totalitarian until its followers put into practice freedom of expression and thought I challenge it as an anti-democratic system of thought and the anti-thesis to a tolerant, democratic society.