SpaceGazelle wrote:As much as I hate Muslims I can't seriously blame an entire section of society simply because of a thick idiot or two.
This. Been a lot of excellent writing re the double standard over the last few days.JonB wrote:The thing to always remember about the rise of political Islam is that it's the result of programmatic annihilation of progressive popular politics in the region. Democracy and independence movements crushed by the West using the excuse of the Cold War, often by fostering what were previously relatively minor extremist forces.
It's also worth bearing in mind that this form of Islam represented by groups like ISIS has never really existed in history before. It's a very modern phenomenon. It's not that Islam never developed, more that its regressive remainders have been empowered by outside forces, and created this bastardisation, rather than disappearing into history.
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