Originally Posted by
Lowslung
I would hardly call Libya and Syria examples of success. Last I checked, both are maybe just a hair’s width above failed states. And before anyone accuses me of partisanship, I agree that the Obama administration shares much of the blame for recent policy failures in the region. Seems party affiliation is meaningless when it comes to unindented consequences in that part of the world.
Eventually if you study the society - live in it for awhile - you understand what the problem is. It’s Islam.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not holier than now. The Spanish Inquisition kept at it for 350 years and really stopped only in the 1830s. And Christianity had a 650 year head start on civilizing itself and purging savagery from its ranks. There are 2.2 billion Christians on this globe. About 2 million followers of Islam. The “true believers” of the Spanish Inquisition would consider about 2 billion of those Christians to be infidels - fallen from the True Faith. The “true believers” (fundamentalists) of Islam consider about 75-80% (their own moderates) to be more or less heretical or at least lapsed from the true faith.
It’s taken Christianity 2000 years from its founding to smooth out some of the rough edges and even now that process is incomplete. It shouldn’t surprise us that it’ll take as much time for Islam