In comparing the conditions of Arab and Islamic societies today to their conditions centuries ago, it will be clear that the predominance of the “violent mind” has mounted. To be precise, however, it is the “culture of the violent mind” and not the “violent mind” itself that spread among large sectors of Arab and Islamic societies. There are five reasons behind this fact: political tyranny, the spread of extremist understanding of Islam, the spread of tribal values, education system and corruption.