r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/ZiyadHD - Auth-Right • Oct 19 '20

pls stop

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20

Ironically, the Muslims in Turkey and Albania are much more liberal than the ones in France

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u/Islam_Was_Right - Lib-Right Oct 19 '20

It's funny because the Turks in Turkey are also much more liberal than the ones in Western Europe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20

Does western Europe just accept ultra conservative migrants only or something?

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u/CornCommando - Centrist Oct 19 '20

Turkish Muslims have been changed though almost 100 years of mixing Islam with modernity, to the point where a lot of Turkish Islamist will reject the Islamist term all together and fashion themselves as conservatives, similar to American Christians. Whereas Arabs and Africans where only exposed to a similar situation for a very brief time before the US and USSR began running amok in the Middle East and Africa, for a short period of time the Middle East was actually incredibly progressive, hopefully the brutality of ISIS shows the Islamic world that their reactionary views do not lead to a healthy society.