{"id":76437,"date":"2015-10-07T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76437"},"modified":"2015-10-07T15:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:42:12","slug":"if-islam-is-so-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76437","title":{"rendered":"If Islam Is So Wonderful?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I do not know of a country that has become more Muslim and more free.<\/p>\n

A friend says: “The lands are not ruled by Islam. Some countries (Saudi Arabia and Iran) claim to follow Islamic law (Sharia) but the countries are ruled by persons. Some of those persons are enlightened, some are enlightened despots, and some are despots. Some of them have a difficult time controlling a fractious nation comprised of warring factions. But there are many nations that are primarily Islamic which are not hellholes from which everyone tries to escape. In Europe you have Turkey, Cyprus and Albania. In North Africa you have Morroco, Tunisia, and to some extent Algeria. Lebanon was for many years peaceful until it became unstable due to the PLO which was comprised of Palestinian refugees from Israel, and then it really fell apart following repeated Israeli invasions, Jordan is a fairly stable country, and the natives of Qatar, Dubai, the Emirates and Kuwait don\u2019t seem to mind being very rich from oil wealth. Going further east, neither Malaysia not Indonesia are filled with people eager to escape Islamic rule. So it\u2019s a cute bumper sticker, but not borne out by reality. <\/p>\n

There are many other places around the world (mostly sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of central and south America and the Caribbean (Haiti) which are much less desirable places to live.)”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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