RE: The Arab World before Islamism
March 3, 2017 at 11:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2017 at 11:20 pm by Aroura.)
My understanding is that radical Islam really took over in the late 80s, early 90's. I admit I'm not well versed in all the why's, i suspect its a multifauceted reason. The results are undeniably bad for everyone, though. One of the reasons for the recent rise of populism in the west is certainly the regression of the middle east, and fear of it.
I wont deny the west has some blame, though. Perhaps not as much as op suggests, perhaps he is correct. In either case, this ongoing culture war of liberalism vs concervativism....west vs east....secularism vs dogmatic extremism, etc, cost human lives. And though we've sometimes had glimpses of a more unified future, the dumb, angry extremist mobs keep yanking us all back.
I hope humans can move past it one day, but it feels like a pretty slim hope right now.
Peace.
I wont deny the west has some blame, though. Perhaps not as much as op suggests, perhaps he is correct. In either case, this ongoing culture war of liberalism vs concervativism....west vs east....secularism vs dogmatic extremism, etc, cost human lives. And though we've sometimes had glimpses of a more unified future, the dumb, angry extremist mobs keep yanking us all back.
I hope humans can move past it one day, but it feels like a pretty slim hope right now.
Peace.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
