[SatinDoll]

In Europe dissidents could gather and protest, the police standing watch, unable to do anything. However in Islamic countries there is no sense of free will, only submission. And submission will be beaten into the masses through massacres until it is thoroughly understood.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

In Belarus, and to a lesser extent Russia, dissidents are beaten or killed.

[elcid1970]

I was deployed to Uzbekistan in 2003-04. Uzbeks seemed to me to be mostly secular Muslims. I’m afraid that this time it’s not Islam that killed a disident, but an old fashioned Stalinist dictator. Karimov is more Andropov than Tamerlaine.

And it’s sorry as h**l that our State Department got us kicked out of the Karshi-Khanabad base following the Andijon incident. The Uzbeks I met were friendly and intelligent, a people whose talents for meteoric improvement in their lot have been ground under the heel of their Putin-loving despot.

Too bad for Uzbekistan and us, but worse for them.