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In reply to the discussion: Islam, as it is practiced by a majority of muslims in the world, is a regressive force. [View all]Kurska
(5,739 posts)is the asinine part. Maybe you should educate yourself about the longer history of that region. The rejection of natural causality by madmen like Al-Ghazali is where this mess started. Their backwardness did not begin with colonialism. Their treatment of women is rooted millennium old tribalism and a focus on a scripture that, while progressive for the time, is woefully out of place with the modern world (like most scripture is).
Again, you want to make this about the west, but it is a thousand years older than either of us. You ignore the fact that western power games have affected every part of the world and yet, this one stands uniquely against the tides of modernization and progress. As if it was the only place to ever have a government overthrown for western corporate and political interests.
You're rather speak a thousand words against the west, than utter one phrase in protection of gay people in Saudi Arabia, such drivel is what I really find tiring. Political Islam thrives, because it has resources that we need, but also because it has a legion of well meaning westerners always willing to virtue signal about how terrible imperialism was while Yazidi die on mountains and gays rain from the roof tops.
Eliminate our economic need for them by developing our own energy resources and then we can quit coddling their backward ideologies. The sooner we start treating places like Saudi Arabia as the international pariahs they deserve to be the better.