But the whole culture is just messed up with no good future of
economic growth and freedom for all.

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https://zomaloma.com/liberals-are-more-likely-to-be-misfit-wet-blankets-the-proof/

Recently I attended an Egyptian Coptic (Christian) cultural festival and
talked to as many of them as I could. Even in the US they seemed afraid to
offer any criticism that might lead to their church being bombed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Copts

On 10/06/2022 03:52 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> But the whole culture is just messed up with no good future of
> economic growth and freedom for all.
>
> ----------------------
>
> https://zomaloma.com/liberals-are-more-likely-to-be-misfit-wet-blankets-the-proof/
>
>
> Recently I attended an Egyptian Coptic (Christian) cultural festival and
> talked to as many of them as I could. Even in the US they seemed afraid
> to offer any criticism that might lead to their church being bombed.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Copts
>

Yes.
We visited a couple Coptic churches in Egypt in April.
Including the one they say sheltered Mary, Joseph and the baby
soon after Jesus was born.
Neat places.

Heritage of welcoming Abraham, Joseph, all his family,
Then Mary, Joseph, and Jesus.
And from Egypt, and that heritage, into Christianity,
the command to treat the stranger well.

The amount of hate and intolerance and wasted energy and
effort in that area of the world is very depressing.

On 10/05/2022 05:25 PM, BT wrote:
> In the News:
>
> Women rising up in Muslim world
>
> --------------------
>
> *chuckle*
>
> I gotta see the response from left wing women [1]
>
> After all, they often have "wear the hijab" day to
> show - get this - "solidarity" with their fellow
> women [1] in the Muslim world, not realizing,
> or caring, or wanting to know, that the hajib is
> forced on them by the women-hating men.
>
> Leftwing women also prefer female Muslim
> immigrants like Ilhan Omar, supporter an
> apologist for Muslim female mutilation known
> as female circumcision, forced on them by
> women-hating men who don't want them to
> have any pleasure from sex, and hate Muslim
> female immigrants like Ayaan Hirsi Ali who speak
> out against Islam's anti-women and anti-freedom
> culture.
>
> They're such idiots.
>
> B. T.
>
I do not feel much like giving a *chuckle* about it.
It is all so messed up, and seems unendingly sad.

Concerning

The recent Taliban retaking power over Afghanistain
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

also
I recently finished reading two books on the general subject:

Generation Revolution by Rachel Aspden
https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Revolution-Between-Tradition-Change/dp/1543601332
"Generation Revolution unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of
four young Egyptians on the eve and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring,
and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East."

Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East
Paperback – March 15, 2016
by Raja (ed.) Shehada (Author), Penny (ed.) Johnson (Editor)
https://www.amazon.com/Shifting-Sands-Unraveling-Order-Middle/dp/156656056X
"A fresh look at the Middle East today, tomorrow, and in the past:
fifteen writers, with an introduction by Raja Shehadeh, author of the
Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks, and Penny Johnson. At a time
when the Middle East dominates media headlines more than ever—and for
reasons that become ever more heartbreaking—Shifting Sands brings
together fifteen impassioned and informed voices to talk about a region
with unlimited potential, and yet which can feel, as one writer puts it,
“as though the world around me is on fire?”

Very sad. Youth, definitely including females, just do not have any
easy way for progress.
In Egypt the mass united demonstrations finally forced out a
corrupt dictatorship (Mubarak), got a chance to democraticlly elect
a leader, and they big time went for Islamic fundamentalist,
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Mohamed Morsi, was sworn in as Egypt's first democratically elected
President. Moves toward the Islamic laws created political and
economic crisis. The population supported the military in throwing
Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood out. So, they have another
military dictator. But,,,, always the hope he will rule the
country for the benifit of all citizens.

But the whole culture is just messed up with no good future of
economic growth and freedom for all.