Will the Mid East tumult come to an end with the 4T?

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(09-06-2016, 02:04 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Your examples of subsaharan Africa and Indonesia suggest to me that the issue really has as much to do with Islamic culture, if not religion, as it has to do with Arabs specifically.  I mean seriously, Boko Haram?  The only reason Iran isn't yet as oppressive toward women is because of the lingering cultural effects of the secular Shah's regime supported by the U.S., by the way.

I do think the greater Middle East is high on the candidate list for one of the epicenters of the coming crisis war, what with growing populations and growing nuclear weapons capabilities.  South Asia, with the same characteristics, may also be involved.

A lot of the current Fundamentalism in the Islamic world has it's roots in agrressive Saudi-backed Wahhabi proselytizing. Pakistan, for example, was quite secular until the dictatorship of Al-Zia, when the country was deluged with Saudi-backed Wahhabism.

Iran is isolated from those currents because they are Shia, and because Iran has a very strong, old tradition of intellectualism and literacy. Traditionally urban-settled Arabs (the descendants of Aramaic-speaking converts) of do too, but are in many areas overwhelmed by Arabs of culturally backward Bedouin extraction.