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Originally Posted by elphenor
I don't think it's exclusively intervention, but that intervention plays a role in stunting their social growth
the biggest contributor is that the ME faces a level of instability and insecurity that The West does not anymore
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The obvious problem with that thesis is that the Muslim world is far from unique with regard to their experience with Western imperialism yet there does seem to be a pretty noticable pattern of Islamic terrorism worldwide.
If it is mainly down to imperialism and global inequity then there's nothing that separates much of the Islamic world from other parts of the 3rd world in that regard.