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Originally Posted by blankall
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.
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The first two had fallen dictatorships which led to a vaccuum filled by religious leaders. The Shah and the Mubarak line of dictators pushed away from religion because god is a challenger to a dictator's authority. Brutality of the regimes plus restrictions led to opposition forming under the religious banner. Muslin Brotherhood and Ayatollah etc.
Afghanistan, was obviously screwed up by war. Russian invasion screwed them.