No More Bin Laden

[shoju]

The difference really between "the west" / christianity / atheism divide, and the Islamic countries is more about the fact that many of these countries are just now entering a revolutionary period of their history, whereas "the west" (for the purpose of my point western Europe is included here), has already gone through social, and religious revolutions.

The significance of the "secular" movements in places like Tunisia, Egypt, etc... is really the beginning of the breaking of the hold that Islam has held over their society similar to the revolutions that happened starting with say.... Martin Luther and moving forward. I know it isn't an obvious and easy parallel, because there were many revolutions for the west, while Islamic countries are revolting all at once. And the fact that these rallies are being done without extremist islamic control, really points towards a new era of freedoms being ushered into some of these countries.

I don't expect that they will all end up as democratic / republic states, but I do believe that there will be increased freedoms and ideologies in parts of the world that were still very much ruled by "their church".