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Perhaps you mean they are Muslims. Islamism is an ideology -- or arguably a catch-all term for a number of ideologies -- that want to force Islam into the gove
by nandemo 11y ago
Perhaps you mean they are Muslims.
Islamism is an ideology -- or arguably a catch-all term for a number of ideologies -- that want to force Islam into the government, law and everything.
http://www.danielpipes.org/954/distinguishing-between-islam-and-islamism http://www.danielpipes.org/954/distinguishing-between-islam-...
The average Iraqi or Syrian isn't Islamist. E.g. the Alawites in Syria aren't Islamists, and the former Baath party in Iraq wasn't either.
- dogma1138 11y agoHonor killings were both legal and prevalent in Iraq under Sadam's rule. The Baath party also operated para-military militias that enforced "morality" rules mostly targeting prostitutes and homosexual. Extra marital sex was punishable in Sadam's Iraq and it was commonly enforced by either the family or the government which quite often resulted in death. The picture as far as Syria goes isn't that different the only major difference is that unlike Iraq Syria had and still has specific laws that target homosexuals rather than just "extra martial sex".