If you want Islam to "clean house", kindly get out of our way.
OUCH!
Beautifully put, Kalam.
Of course our masters aren't about to get out of the way.
They're far too cozy with too many Islamic states' masters for any of that to happen.
Like I need to tell
you this?
I suspect not.
سلام
Indeed they are. Every single government in the Middle East is a corrupt violator of human rights...
why aren't we taught to oppose those regimes as well as al-Qa'idah?
I'll presume your question is rhetorical. You and both know why government and their detractors BOTH use propaganda to dupe the people.
Because it works!
You and I also both know why the USA empire supports oligarchical regimes and tyrants on other lands.
In fact, you and I both know why
every empire in history has done that.
Because supporting (or creating corrupt regimes) is easier and cheaper than full time (and hostile) occupations.
Now let me ask you a question:
Do you really believe that the leadership of
al-Qa'idah would be any different if they had the power?
And if you do, how many generations do you think it would take before their idealist government became just another oligarchy that mouthed the platitudes of good goverment while fucking its own people?
Power corrupts every FORM of government, in every type of economy, and in every culture...regardless of race, religion, or culture, we find the same damned thing.
Mankind's societies are bound to fail because the kind of men who attain power cannot help but abuse it to their
own benefit.
Nobody who knows humankind's history can possible imagine otherwise.
That's why idealogues are usually such damned fools.
They
all imagine that their ideologies (and the systems that they develop from their ideologies) can overcome the
true nature of man.
It never works for long, so governments and nations and ideologies come and go
slip slip sliding into the dustbin of history.