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Conservatism is just starting to leave the ultra-conservative theocratic nations of the ME. I suspect that if the US and UK are able to stop interfering with the ME, it will finally give liberalism, and thus freedom of thought and choice, to take root and grow across the desert. But...every time a US bomb kills a family, every time the Pope declairs the Muslims to be violent, every time Israel occupies foriegn land, it sets back freedom and postpones peace. It takes two to tango, so don't think that I only blame the invading forces, I realize that a lot of Arab Muslims feel a lot of hate and many of them let that hate out in terrible was, unforgivable ways.
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Actually in my opinion, they are regressing. 80 years ago it was perfectly acceptable to be openly gay in Iraq (the most popular entertainer was a cross-dressing man), now people are killed for much less. 45 years ago a woman walking around without a burqua in Egypt would be seen as independent and successful, now she is hounded and called a whore.