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Originally Posted by T@T
Hate to say it but it's looking that way, Funny thing is Saddam was a sunni which only made up about 30% of Iraq population and is not near as radical as the shia muslims.
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Saddam Hussein was pretty secular though. From what I read, he did not worship regularly, drank alcohol and wasn't too devout (many muslims considered him a "bad" muslim). He actually supported things like the education of women and had a right-hand man who was a Christian.
I have a National Geographic magazine from the early 80s that promoted him as a man who was going to bring positive change to the ME.
Obviously he became a bit of a psychopath (his sons were probably even worse), but I am convinced that different rules apply there in general. Fear has been a tool used to govern for so long that it seems like it is ingrained.