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In reply to the discussion: Islam, as it is practiced by a majority of muslims in the world, is a regressive force. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The countries you list are bad places among other bad places in this world. They aren't uniquely evil, and since the form of Islam practiced in those places wasn't always repressive, the possibility of change from within(the only possible way of changing things in such places)still exists.
And I see parallels in what you are pushing for here with the kind of rhetoric deployed during the decades of western "criticism" of "communism" or as it actually was, right-wing nationalist dictatorships that flew red flags out of convience).
The intent is to imply that most or all of the world's problems are the result of the actions of some designated enemy.
Nothing good ever comes of trying to break the world up into "good" and "evil" nations.
It's fine to criticize any country in which regressive policies occur, but there are also limits
A)To the degree we in "the West" are entitled to claim moral superiority over anyone else
B)To what we as outsiders can do to change things in other regions.
"Communism" didn't end because of outside condemnation.
Nothing anyone said about the Soviet model from outside had anything to do with it.
It ended because people in those countries rose up to resist it, and because Mikhail Gorbachev made it clear that he would do nothing to preserve the old repression.
Something like that is what is needed to change things in Muslim countries.