The integration of certain secular norms like democracy and other modern aspects of life especially those dealing with freedom and with women issues and gender equalities , surely disturbed a certain inherited equilibrium in most Arab and non Arab countries , around the entirety of the Middle-East , whether through direct invasions ie, American invasion of Iraq , Israeli to Palestine , or via all the pseudo secular dictatorships of the area in the last few decades .
It is a known fact that most peoples cannot tolerate existing nor conducting their lives in two different systems at the same time . In most Arab Muslim countries life to its smallest everyday detail happen because god wills it , and people are not in any role or position to argue or tamper with the will of god .
In the Middle-East Islam in its two main factions , plays a by far more pervasive role in the life of every individual and all , than any other religion does in any part of the world , only Israel might be a qualified second to this blind obedience to religious dogmas . People in the West in general have difficulty understanding or grasping the extent to which certain religions ie. Islam and Judaism infiltrate and govern all aspects of life in their respective societies .
ISIS , its sisters and all other Musslem salafi groups , are being contested in the Muslim world only for their excessive brutality , short sighted intolerance and free butchery towards Musslems and non Musslem citizens . Only if they were a little more or better tacticians and pragmatists and a little less brutal and sanguinary , they would have won the hearts and minds of most Sunni Musslems , not only within the Arab context but the whole world .
Historically Israelites did the same using terrorism to implement ideals and win lands and won the hearts of all Jewry before during and after 1948 , and are still reviving these methods nowadays .
Unfortunately , I cannot but believe that the future of most of the Middle-East , will not be what we know and lived through for the past 60 or 70 years , or even today , they will de facto be divided into many entities of different ethnic enclaves , having in most cases bad relations among each other , keeping a semi warlike situation always followed by short periods of imposed peace .
Proving to the world that different ethnic and different religious groups cannot somehow survive together , at least not in that part of the world . and to say that it's the same god they all believe in , maybe he doesn't want it any other way !!!
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