"I support Muslims who love freedom" (6 Viewers)
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One of the most famous tyrant regime's in the ME as admitted by almost everyone was that of Saddam Hussein, yet his regime was in fact one of an anti-religion approach or at least didn't rely on anything that has to do with religion to gain control over the people.
The same goes for many dictators here too, may it be Syria, Egypt, Morocco or even here on Jordan. Religion, precisely Islam is the biggest target for these regimes to stabilizes the people.
Oh really, and where the fuck did you have this conclusion from?
The same goes for many dictators here too, may it be Syria, Egypt, Morocco or even here on Jordan. Religion, precisely Islam is the biggest target for these regimes to stabilizes the people.
Oh really, and where the fuck did you have this conclusion from?
If you're a dictator then you control the population with military power and it makes no difference what you say or what you say your values are. Especially not in a totalitarian state where your secret police is given the task to sniff out and eliminate the slightest resistance as early as possible.
But neither is that the subject of conversation here. We're talking about a government that needs a certain amount of support in the population to survive. And appealing to religious values is a great way to garner that support, especially from those living in relative poverty and ignorance.
Tell me, if Iran was let's say 70% atheist, would the current government be able to gain/maintain power?
But neither is that the subject of conversation here. We're talking about a government that needs a certain amount of support in the population to survive. And appealing to religious values is a great way to garner that support, especially from those living in relative poverty and ignorance.
Tell me, if Iran was let's say 70% atheist, would the current government be able to gain/maintain power?
Every government needs a certain amount of support, hell almost any dictator would eventually fall if he's not getting enough support from his people. There's no such thing as the need for religion create a system of allusion to the people in order to cut their balls, such systems exist as a result of power abuse by the government and whether or not the people are religious or not has got nothing to do with it. Actually, such religious people could in fact be the ones who are rebellious and asking for a change like I've pointed out before.
No, but it wouldn't either if those 70% were lets say Christians, Jews, Buddhist...etc. Religion was simply the salvation for many of the Iranian people who turned for it in order to get rid of a huge dictator, No one could have predicted these religious figures would turn out to be on the same level as the tyrant if not even worse. But then again this could have ended the same way (I mean with a dictatorship too) even if the Iranian people turned to an atheist who simply wanted all the power to himself.
Tyranny has got nothing to do with religion but obsession with power that simply grows inside of many men but some more than others.
That maybe true but that doesn't change the fact that I could have changed my religion, as many have or had done, had I believed it was the right thing to do.
Im a muslim because I've faith in this religion and what it is all about.
No, but it wouldn't either if those 70% were lets say Christians, Jews, Buddhist...etc. Religion was simply the salvation for many of the Iranian people who turned for it in order to get rid of a huge dictator, No one could have predicted these religious figures would turn out to be on the same level as the tyrant if not even worse. But then again this could have ended the same way (I mean with a dictatorship too) even if the Iranian people turned to an atheist who simply wanted all the power to himself.
Tyranny has got nothing to do with religion but obsession with power that simply grows inside of many men but some more than others.
That maybe true but that doesn't change the fact that I could have changed my religion, as many have or had done, had I believed it was the right thing to do.
Im a muslim because I've faith in this religion and what it is all about.
No, you're not. Having muslim parents is as influential in anybody's religion as an atheist/Christian/Jew..etc. would be in their kid's life. So no, religion isn't forced upon us in the ME unless you still think our parents hold AK47 and roam the house screaming "Allah AKABAR" and waving the gun promising to shoot us if we didn't be a good muslims.
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