[cookcounty]

Wow. Azerbaijan is a Muslim country.

Quite amazing.

[Cronos]

Islamic country but one that has not forgotten its glorious pre-Islamic past. That is the key for turning them around

[Cronos]

Talking about reminding Moslems of their pre-Islamic past, I think it is important because Islam basically says that everything before Izlam is unworthy of remembering -- hence the destruction of not only monuments but also memories of pre-Izlamic Arabia, and we saw it in the Taliban's destructions of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Those were built when AFghanistan was a centre of Buddhism which came from India under the Maurya Empire

Afghans history is of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaenism, Christianity (Church of the East) before Izlam. And the Talibs wanted to obliterate that.

The Pakistanis now like to pretend that they are not of Indian extraction but try to say they are actually Arabs (which Arabs laugh at) -- and deny their past

In Egypt, there was a chance at the end of the 19th century when Pharoanism (pride in ancient Egypt) flourished, but then it was superseded by the Moslem brotherhood and pan-Izlam. Ditto for the Amazhighen (Berbers) in North Africa

If we can get these countries to think of their times before Izlam, we have a way of breaking the grip of jhadiism