Yeah, and I know how far that’s going to go, under a Muslim Caliphate and Sharia law... LOL...
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[a “saying” heard about in Caliphate circles..., the only “good moderate Muslim” is a dead Muslim... :-).... ]
Considering that I’ve had actually lived and worked in that region I’d say that the locals there aren’t out to convert or kill visitors at all and I did not see any of the extremes associated with the Taliban or other similar regimes.
And one can buy liquor either retail or in several restaurants and bars and I’m told that if one knows how to ask one can buy pork other things as well.
I think that a lot of Americans have a very narrow view of what life in the mideast and central Asia is really like and the notion that everyone wants to be like us. I think that most of those finally coming out of the stone age are fine with being who they are.