Baathists are not Islamists. They wear suits and ties and speak in an educated tone with concern for the development and progress of Muslim and Arab countries. Saddam's Iraq produced engineers, scientists, educated men, not fanatical religious extremists, so why would non-Muslims hate this? Wouldn't non-Muslims welcome a clampdown on fanatics and Muslim countries becoming civilised and being brought into the modern world?
>>18756373Saddam was not secular, in the final years of his reign he promoted Islam as the state religion and passed laws based on Islamic moralityActual secularism would be what Ataturk did, a total denunciation of Islam
>>18756373non Muslims just hate brown people, yes even hinuds they hate themself.So don't expect them to be rational
Nobody even knows what that is, let alone hates it. The muzzy clerics hated it, I assure you.
>>18756389>Actual secularism would be what Ataturk did, a total denunciation of IslamLmao
>>18756373The theocracy forms a layer of overseers in the Arab world. The religious leaders are kind of like middle managers that keep things like law enforcement, judiciary and education running. It's not that an alternative isn't available, but overturning it would mean disassembling the majority of government to do it. Funny enough the military in most of the Islamic seems to be the consistent institution that is immune to religious leadership. Which might explain why a coup always seems to result in brief leadership from a military leader before returning to a religious zealot or straight up member of the high branch of imans or whatever they have over there. Sometimes reform is easier than ripping and replacing
