Weasel Zippers,
I’ve been thinking about the recent uprising in Egypt compared to the unsuccessful one in Iran that most of us supported including myself. We need to look at the mindset of the people involved.
In Iran the youth want nothing to do with Islam, they’ve lived under an Islamic regime and detest it. Iran has by far and away the lowest mosque attendance in the Middle East, western style is popular etc. In Egypt you have the youth living under a secular regime of which they also detest, they’re are one of the most pious Muslim nations on Earth and would like nothing more than to live under an Islamic regime.
What it boils down to is one uprising was attempting to overthrow an Islamic regime and the other more or less supporting the implementation of one.
At this point I’m fascinated by what’s going on but at the same time I’m very weary about supporting it one way or the other.
What are you guys thinking?
