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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
And the ****ed up thing is America is the reason why conservatism rules in the middle east and our insistence in drone striking and indiscriminately murdering them does more to prevent progress than the poisonous religion.
So while Islam, just like Christianity and Judaism, is toxic it's really America that's the most toxic force of all.
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America isn't the reason the middle east is conservative. It's actually incredibly ethnocentric to see it this way. The cultures and religious trends of the middle east aren't just a response to Western imperialism. They're shaped in the modern context towards violence and antagonism with the west through our foreign policy... But the conservative nature of the religion existed even at the heights of Islamic conquest. I know many of us forget but there was a time when the Islamic world was more powerful than the Christian west. They have their own culture. Not everything they do is in direct relation to us.