Looks As If Turkey Is Going Down The Shitter, Too

[Regina]

You also forget the historical role of all the Middle Eastern countries. First colonialised by the Ottoman empire, later coloialised by the West and never being able to form an identity of their own. Even more so, since the Middle East doesn't have any grown borders. These countries were drawn up at some colonial office at Londong or Paris, whithout any regards to religious, cultural or ethnic affiliation. Later on they went straight to dictatorship, sometimes courtesy of the West, sometimes kept in the saddle by the Soviet Union. All of this adds to the virulence of the problem.

I can see this more now and I think it's best (on a political level) for Western powers to just stay out of most Middle Eastern affairs, trade sanctions if need be but no more military intervention or arming anyone. I just think it needs to happen more on a social solidarity level, where people support the dissenting Muslims and free-thinkers within these societies while showing disapproval to the bigotry of those systems.

But my comments earlier were more in response to how, strictly in Western societies, the regressive left have painted the hardliners as the most authentic Muslims and do it at the expense of reformist Muslims.