Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia...what do these countries have in common?
Would you want to live in China, Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, Inquisition Spain? The countries in Africa (I honestly couldn't name them) that are killing children for being witches? North Korea?
Islam is just the justifier for oppression, just like (in those I listed, in order) communism, communism, fascism, and Christianity were the justifiers for the oppression there.
That doesn't mean Islam itself is the problem. It's the political/cultural/religious conglomeration that's the problem. It doesn't help that these countries have terrible standards of education (they have much less universities per capita than first world countries do) which just excacerbates the problem.
Oppressive barbarians will be oppressive barbarians and they'll use anything they can to do it. Even in America, Japanese families were put into camps during WWII, and McCarthyism was a blatant example of "thought police" even in the "land of the free." Nowhere is exempt from barbarism, and it would be foolish to pin it squarely on the nose of any particular religion or even social theory. The fact is that some people have no regard for freedom and they'll use anything at their disposal to justify their rejection of civil liberties; be it communism, Islam, Christianity, fascism, even "the spread of democracy."
They're all places I wouldn't want to live... :sarcastic
I second that, I'd never want to live in an oppressive hellhole.
