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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's more like the radicals are not happy with the direction that Islam is going, you know, evolution. They are not happy about Muslims being more Western and is punishing the West for it.
If I use Korea as an example, the youths there are much more Westernized and materialistic then even 5 years ago. But there are no radicals that are upset about it (except maybe grandmothers but they have no weapons, hee)
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Are these nations more Western now? Look at places like Iran, Egypt, Afghanistan, etc from the 60s. They look very progressive and Western.
The problem was at some point a group of radicals began to associate Islam with this ultra conservative culture and selectively use passages from the Koran to justify this. For example the Koran pushes female education, but the ultra conservative political forces have taken the place of that teaching in many places.