As said above, the issue with states where the population is majority Muslim ultimately revolve around a triumvirate of interlocking factors. Autocratic regimes that rely on foreign backing are the predominant form of organization, having both nothing in common with the masses they repress and having little fear of them due to being able to depend on a foreign pipeline to save themselves control states whose economies tend to be monocrop economies or dependent on exporting and not on domestic sources of income, where the demographic pattern is also one that favors huge masses of young people who as such have no means to secure any kind of consistent employment. Islam isn't really the problem with any of this, it's a reflection of the spread of modern medicine and thus the same demographic boom that happened in Europe.
The issue of Muhammad, even then, applies to fanatics whose lethal and barbaric acts ensures they have the eye of global media, but always in specific areas, not in the whole of the Muslim world. Pakistan, which is debatably Muslim (if you consider it a Muslim theocracy Israel is a Jewish one) as a state but is certainly Islamic-nationalist, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, all are areas damaged by civil wars, which in the reality as opposed to the mythology produce violent, bloodthirsty, radical movements who live and die by the gun. This is a problem without real solutions bar a Bene Gesserit-style unrealistically prolonged global social engineering project.
So, it's notoriously bloody minorities seeking a cheap rallying point to distract from complex issues they cannot control. It's both neither unique to the Muslim world, nor are the solutions easily found here. The treatment of it as an apocalyptic clash of civilizations, however, is both fairytale and the irony of the blind condemning the blind as both stand poised over the abyss.
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Date: 15/9/12 21:48 (UTC)The issue of Muhammad, even then, applies to fanatics whose lethal and barbaric acts ensures they have the eye of global media, but always in specific areas, not in the whole of the Muslim world. Pakistan, which is debatably Muslim (if you consider it a Muslim theocracy Israel is a Jewish one) as a state but is certainly Islamic-nationalist, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, all are areas damaged by civil wars, which in the reality as opposed to the mythology produce violent, bloodthirsty, radical movements who live and die by the gun. This is a problem without real solutions bar a Bene Gesserit-style unrealistically prolonged global social engineering project.
So, it's notoriously bloody minorities seeking a cheap rallying point to distract from complex issues they cannot control. It's both neither unique to the Muslim world, nor are the solutions easily found here. The treatment of it as an apocalyptic clash of civilizations, however, is both fairytale and the irony of the blind condemning the blind as both stand poised over the abyss.