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Old May 12, 2008, 07:31 am   #41 (permalink) (top)
shrike
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I think you'd find in the economically developed and democratic regions of the Islamic world(Albania, Most of non-Kurdish Turkey, Malysia, most of Iran(well, its partially democractic) aren't very violent at all. Hell, even Indonesia is pretty peaceful, considering the ethnic diversity, population size and poverty of the state- being a liberal-ish democracy probably has something to do with it.
I am really not sure what causes what. It is non democratic nature of this Muslim state that cause the religious violence and fanaticism or its religious fanaticism that cause that we don't see many liberal democratic Islam countries. IMO its synergy of this two reasons because you don't see much Buddhist terrorists in not democratic countries.
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