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Originally Posted by The Batlord
So are you saying that you think that the average Pakistani actually holds much the same relatively secular views as your average Westerner?
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No, I doubt it. Religion still plays a much more important role in those countries. I do however feel the number of people in those countries who do not agree with the more extreme end of the spectrum may not be too far off from your average westerner, that the same social phenomenon thought to be responsible for racial segregation in the US and the prohibition may be the issue here and that laws passed in a democratic country or an insignificant ammount of open oppostion may not be proof in of itself that the people of that country support any of it.
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