Sad thing is this shows at one time Islam was headed to some sort of reform, morphing into a religion that could accomodate the modern world. That all changed with Carter caving on the Shah & the craven cowardly behavior of the European nations during the oil embargo & their retreat from supporting Israel.
The proper response in both cases was a “whiff of the grape” as Napoleon so well put it!
Afghanistan was even an “out-of-the-way” roughing it tourist spot!
Weakness in foreign affairs begets more weakness which begets more until we have what we have now!
What is shows is a secularization of Islamic countries.
Ataturk did it in Turkey.
The Ayatollahs and mullahs taking them back is a reaction to the westernizing.
Islam doesn’t change.
It has always been a religion of conquest and slavery, murder and mayhem.
There were some videos of Pakistan floating around recently showing ceremonies when it first gained independence—looked like a modern country moving forward proudly. Now it’s just another backwards Islamic sh!th*le.
Comments were interesting, mainly Pakistanis wishing they were still in the old days under British rule.
Absolutely true!
And the slam-dunk of that fact is another monumental Islamic event that occurred 2-weeks after the Shia radicals seizure of the American Consulate in Tehran on 11/4/79.
Not to allow the lead in the Jihadi crusade to be taken by Shia, Sunni radicals seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca on 11/20/79.
And the peanut farmer from Georgia leading his surrender-on-all-fronts party of Democrats reignited a dormant Islamic fundamentalism across both Shia & Sunni.