The problem with a number of the mideast Islamic countries is not that there aren’t true believers in western-style democracies. It’s just that they’re far too few in numbers to thwart the ignorant semi-savages who are more than willing to be governed by slightly smarter savages who oppress everybody who is not like them. About thirty to forty percent of adult Egyptians want western-style freedoms. Sixty to seventy percent are quite content to live like they did 1300 years ago.
Where in the history of Islam has liberty ever flourished? It’s been one long slog of faction against faction similar to what you see in a theives guilds or mafias.
Islam is in direct opposition to republican liberty. America is the Great Satain, not because we give arms to Israel, but because we support an idea that’s antithetical to Islam.