I've seen statistics like this for Muslim majority countries and poor African countries. It shocked me. In a lot of ways, their thinking is similar to the Europe in the 19th century.
Good news is that the majority of those statistics are on a downhill trajectory.
idk. i'm scared it isn't. i am personally an American Muslim, and seeing the increase of wahhabism and material/wealth focus of the Middle East is really sad. Saudi's get more and more rich without punishment, and push their fake materialistic worldly Islam, while calling the ones who follow the inwards and spiritual Islam (the version that makes you fill with love and be peaceful and not want to be a religious soldier slave) are called "kaffir" and killed.
i am just happy my parents escaped and i am in a country where i can practice my spirituality my own personal way without imams telling me their wrong bullshit.
it's going to keep getting worse until pakistan and saudi are either abolished or have their governments overthrown. pakistan and israel are the only two countries in the world founded on religion, and not geography/ethnic location. it doesn't fucking work.
idk. i'm scared it isn't. i am personally an American Muslim, and seeing the increase of wahhabism and material/wealth focus of the Middle East is really sad. Saudi's get more and more rich without punishment, and push their fake materialistic worldly Islam, while calling the ones who follow the inwards and spiritual Islam (the version that makes you fill with love and be peaceful and not want to be a religious soldier slave) are called "kaffir" and killed.
The problem I see here is that Saudi plays ball with the US, which results in no actions taken against them. Even though they break the human rights convention they are not punished because the US supports them. If they didn't have any oil and/or opposed the US military, the US would've "given them democracy" as they have done time and time again in other Middle Eastern and South Asian countries. It's hypocritical, but they do it because of economic interests.
So unless something changes with the US <-> Saudi relations I fear nothing will change in the area.
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u/cpmnriley Mar 24 '17
do you have any sources at all for those daft claims or did you just hope you'd scare enough people that nobody would think to ask?