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Lolie posted:It's even more complicated than that. "Moderate" Islam can still be extremely fundamentalist. Saudi Arabia is not alone in being a wealthy nation with modern infrastructure with a harsh Sharia legal system. Only last year, Brunei expanded both the range of offences covered by Sharia and the range of punishments for those offences (severing of limbs, anyone?). Aren't they both dictatorships run by extended royal families that don't give their people that much freedom? Don't we back at least one of those countries with huge amounts of money, arms and other stuff? Also isn't IS sponsored by the Saudis to a greater or lesser extent? And on the subject of terrorist stuff, what about people who join up to fight IS with the various Kurdish groups that are on the ground in Syria, doesn't NATO consider many of them to be terrorist organizations? Of course that is only with the agreement of turkey for the most part a country that NATO seems willing to ignore to a greater or lesser extent. I just feel sad for the people they may have inspired and for everyone who is going to have to suffer through the whole mess that Syria has become. What'd be best would be just to have a big boat go to Syria and pick up everyone who doesn't want to have bits of them chopped off or their family murdered, load them up and just leave the rest of the world to play out its proxy wars there for a good 5 years or so. Once that's done and everyone's gotten bored everyone normal can move back in. Josef bugman fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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I dunno what the true solution to everything happening in the middle east or the rest of the world is, but I am fairly sure its not more of your guys rather lovely posting. "Wahhhhhhaaaaa college kids get to complain and listened to!"
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The Taint Reaper posted:Those are the rules set up by Iran which is a theocracy made under islamic law. After they overthrew the bloke that Britain had put in who had taken over from the socialist guy in charge. That and betrayed the large socialist section because they could get away with it and won out in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Shahs regime. Then we get into a whole mass of internal problems and the fact that many of the larger (and younger) sections of the community don't like being international pariahs and not having any money. But yeah, lets go with "singing the song Savages" from Disneys Pocahontas because we are unable to understand history and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart.
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