'Thou shalt not kill': Pope Francis urges Islamic leaders to reject violence carried out in the name of religion

In all fairness, Iraq was secular before the US took them out. Libya was secular before the US took them out. Lebanon was Christian (still is) before the US helped fuck their shit up. Syria is aggressively secular (banning face veils, clamping down on sharia fundamentalists) before NATO is doing what it's doing now. Iran was secular up until a puppet was made.

The Middle-east is not really that Islamic (Pakistan and Afghanistan are not middle eastern). It progressively becomes Islamic over time. History just comes to show that being super dogmatic Islamic retard keeps you safe from freedom bombs. A lot of Arab countries have constitutional law based off French law with small hints of sharia outside of national courts that aren't that enforced. Saudi Arabia has a lot of sharia law, but also a lot of other laws. Iran has a lot of their own sharia, other Khomeini laws aswell.

Most of the countries that got messed up in the Middle East were non Islamic. Even the Arab spring was the biggest shit show. Stuff got way more extremist after that.

The whole region is being handled poorly by everyone. Responsibility is shared with people involved and a lot of people get involved for some reason., you can't just say Muslims are full blown retards that can't do anything. A lot of those countries get fucked up for having anything progressive in their country, usually by a variety of other countries that gets proven over and over again to not be a conspiracy.

Presumably; if a country has freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights, freedom of beliefs, focuses on development...it's statistically proven that they will get freedom bombed to shit

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