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Originally posted by Kworb
It's frightening, especially when you see countries like Egypt that overthrow their leader only to get a Muslim extremist government in return. Or some of the other African countries that are terrorized by Muslim extremist groups, sometimes with success. And let's not even mention most of the Middle East and the civil rights (or lack thereof) in those countries. It's like things are moving backwards rather than forwards. Islam is fine when it's moderate like most modern day forms of Christianity, but it's hard to be patient and wait for all the world's Muslims to get there, when there are Muslim governments and terrorist groups (sometimes one and the same) committing atrocities in the name of Islam. But you can't force them to "evolve", because that only makes it worse (see Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. etc.)
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You probably have no idea how bad the situation in Egypt was, the poor people there are a LOT and there were many problems facing Egyptians.
Something HAD to be done.
They didn't want a Muslim extremist government in return, they wanted a Muslim Leader that knows Islam which is actually GOOD. All those bombing type of things are prohibited in the religion. And the prophet of Islam once said 'If someone killed an innocent, it's like they killed all man-kind.''
So if a person really knows the religion and not the mess that some Arabs created centuries ago, it would be more than great to have him as a leader.
Things aren't really moving backwards, at least not everywhere.
And of course it will take a while, everything does. You can't force a tree to grow in a day, can you?
I mean at least you do live in a Country that has already evolved so it shouldn't be that hard for you.
And the example you gave aren't really good examples, they didn't try to make them evolve, they basically crashed in their Countries and stayed there and if they didn't like it, they get killed.