(December 2, 2018 at 4:30 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Islamic nations live at the bottom of the barrel. But it's very informative to see that the nations which aren't Muslim, which claim to be "pioneers in justice and human rights", send their leaders to sit on the same dinner table with a criminal like MBS in the G40, forgetting that yesterday he chopped a man in broad daylight.
It's the G20.
We have to stop blaming the outside for the bad condition of the Muslim world. Even from a religious perspective we have no one to blame but ourselves.
The Muslims and Arabs are too deep inside this culture of autocracy and authoritarianism. We never developed the libertarian ideals of John Locke from the Enlightenment.
Until that changes you can expect more like MBS. MBS didn't come out of a vacuum. Don't forget about Saddam, Assad Sr. and Assad Jr., Sisi, Nasser, Bouteflicka, Gaddafi, the Shah of Iran, Khomeini, Khamanei, and so many others. What has the Middle East produced except authoritarianism?
And this culture of intolerance and silencing any kind of dissent isn't limited to Muslim governments. Its a culture that is pervasive within society and a culture that Muslims don't leave when they emigrate from the home nations for greener pastures. I go to any number of Islamic discussion board and I am immediately silenced and banned for expressing the slightest disagreement from orthodoxy.
Time to stop blaming America, the CIA, the British, Israel, etc. Take responsibility for your own failure.
