It's better to build upon a national identity for the Middle East

and that was what the secular muslim "puppet" leaders were trying to do

I heavily disagree on that.

It's already faired poorly.

If the Iranian Shah was still in power, we would have 1000 mia khalifa lookalike

Have you saw Persia back in the 1970s?

The tribes are all developing their own new national identities based on their tribal identities.

You can watch Youtube videos of old recordings

It looked like a modern country

Again, Kurdistan, the Assyrians, and a number of others are good examples.

but what happens is that socialists get into the country

start larping around for muh equality

and all of a sudden a power gap exist

and the radical religious clergy takes over instead

So.

Which socialists did that to Saudi Arabia?

the neighboring socialists

made saudi arabia scared for their king

and start locking down hard

Errr. Right.

So the House of Saud,

Conquered Arabia,

But was secular despite its whole, you know, legal system.

But socialists in Iran made them turn into extremists.

That's your gist?

socialists in afghanistan

iraq

egypt

they were afraid of socialists in their own country

mind you

and they had the money to actually put down the law

and since power corrupts

they decided to put down the law forever

and ergo you have saudi arabia hanging gays today

because they have the increased authority to do so citing "muh socialists fear"

I love how this server got more diverse though

I was getting tired of seeing brown names everyday

Hmmm?

Well congrats, if you want diversity then you struck gold with me.

we had this moderator who would just censor everything against him

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