Comments on: Was the Break-Up of the Ottoman Empire a Good Thing? /region/europe/was-the-break-up-of-the-ottoman-empire-a-good-thing-02157/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:23:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pam Clark /region/europe/was-the-break-up-of-the-ottoman-empire-a-good-thing-02157/#comment-32165 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:23:04 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=47621#comment-32165 True to some extent, but not unbiased. Previous history testifies.

]]> By: Hugh /region/europe/was-the-break-up-of-the-ottoman-empire-a-good-thing-02157/#comment-32050 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:51:38 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=47621#comment-32050 A world of intrigue, dictators, murder, and strife…………….long before Europe intruded.
While it is true that the western powers shaped the nations of the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf, they can hardly be blamed for the ignorance, the hatred, the violence, the corruption, or the anachronistic religious culture, that thrives there.

Not a single functioning democracy in all of the Arab world. Not a one can boast religious, or cultural, freedom. The Muslim/Arab world has been at odds with the rest of the world for 1400 years. To blame their ills on colonial era powers, is just blatant ignorance.

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