When I ask these questions I do't report them, cause Im open minded :) ..so here it goes..?

Have you ever prayed to your Creator to discover what He made you to do during your lifetime and NEVER get an answer. Think about it. Allah made you for a reason and doing it is the definition of what is "right" to do on earth.

So when you divorce yourself from the temporal world and come to the worship of God... when you humble yourself in from pride and ego. When you get to the place when you are glorifying God, the most high... what can I tell the Creator that he doesn't know? Nothing!

There is nothing you can do that he can't do 1000 times better and faster. So when you realize you don't know he doesn't need you to do anything because he is God/Creator, the most high who made you. You know you should be his servant so you don't go to hell but can't hear his voice because Islam forbids it...what kinds of things would you do to win his favor while you were worshiping him?

Salam No we do not do funny gestures while praying. You see it like a funny gestures because you do not know how to perform of praying in Islam.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.