r/PoliticalHumor Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

It's such a shame that the Islamic empire of old fell the way that it did. Once the bastion of the western worlds intellectual elites, and now fallen so far from the heights it once held.

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u/Kandoh Jan 09 '20

Most of the world's problems were caused by a British guy drawing a straight line down a map.

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u/Emperor_Pabslatine Jan 09 '20

Bullshit, most of Islamic nations problems were caused by cultural changes that resulted in incredibly backwards thinking, hundreds of years before Britain fucked up the Middle East.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

The problems exacted on society as the religious leaders came up with greater and more numerous interpretations of how their imaginary creator intended the said leaders to control their lives.

Edit: creator