(December 13, 2015 at 6:59 pm)Exian Wrote: But then that's the fundamental difference between Islam and western religions; their religion and their politics are one in the same. And when radicalized, there is hardly a difference between the two.
Not really. The political condition facing People of Islamic countries of the near east, both the chronic ones that have persisted since around 1948, and periodically accute ones, created a moral exhaustion and disillusionment with the potential for secular forces to address the problems, that allowed religion to appear to offer a deceptively easier, clearer and less ambigious solution.
The most effective and proactive means of addressing these problems between 1948 and around 1980 had been mostly secular throughout most of middleeast.
