Why/How did 20th Century Western Geo-Politics Kill Islam in its Liberalization Quest?

Catatonic

Nine Lives
The Middle East would not be a problem except for their oil but the modern problems can be traced back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning of the old Ottoman Empire and the Balfour Declaration guaranteeing a Jewish state.
 

wkmac

Well-Known Member
The Middle East would not be a problem except for their oil but the modern problems can be traced back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning of the old Ottoman Empire and the Balfour Declaration guaranteeing a Jewish state.

Agreed but I'd also add in the Bitter Lake agreement between FDR and King Saud which is argued that US foreign policy and military would also protect Wahabbism that came to fruition over the last 25 plus years in the form of its more militant arm.
 
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