Avon Barksdale wrote:Guest wrote:Avon Barksdale wrote:Guest wrote:
Hopefully they can launch another revolution and get rid of the medieval twats.
Freedom to the Iranians, and any other peoples living under Islamic backward laws!
Do you think the West not getting involved in proxy wars in the Middle East would help? Please reference 1979.
Do you think there is a reason that the Gulf states want nothing to do with Iran has something to do with there being different versions of Islam or no?
Do you think that the Christian Middle East, all those Christian African countries, parts of Europe, Spain especially, had a right to self determination on religion, when the Arab conquests came knocking on their door?
Meaning, learn some history.
You’re devoid of understanding.
Learn some history.
Well, that was an unhelpful response.
As to your question:
"do you think that the Christian Middle East, all those Christian African countries, parts of Europe, Spain especially, had a right to self determination on religion, when the Arab conquests came knocking on their door?" Yes, I do. I'm not a fan of colonialist/imperialist projects. In addition, in modern times if the West are going to get involved in factional disputes either directly or through proxy wars it should only do so with the utmost caution given how generally poor the outcomes have been.
Now tell me about secular conditions in Iran, pre & post 1979 and what caused things to change to allow a more theocratic fundamentalist state to emerge.
Do you know that females are becoming even more defiant in the face of repression?
Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, etc, I hope they bring about change.
We even see it happening in Russia.
For over a thousand years, the Arab slave trade flourished across the width of Africa.
The Barbary pirates were great slavers and 1.2 million Europeans ended up in shackles.
The Royal Navy had the shortest war in the world to eventually put a stop to it.
Why are you defending odious practices and the people who carried them out?
Painting us as worse is pretty pathetic.