Posted on 04/10/2018 12:45:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I still say, regardless, it never would have become an “Islamic Republic”.
Then Westerners showed up, bearing superior weapons and attractive goods and ideas. In the postwar era, Muslims found America and Western Europe eager to provide help in developing Muslim nations along modern lines. For a long time, modernity carried the day in the Muslim world. A simple Internet search will find, for example, pictures showing that in the 1970s even in remote Afghanistan, young Muslim women were being educated and were wearing Western-style dress and makeup.
Modern communications in the form of TV now propagate images that show Muslims how superior Western societies are. Cheap and easy jet travel also permits tourism from virtually all Muslim countries. Even in remote villages, TV and hence America are now ubiquitous through DVDs and mpeg files. If Keppel is right, Islam's response in the form of radical Islamist movements is a dead end.
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