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>Any regime change that involves freeing many thousands of women and children from prisons notorious for torture and mass-executions seems like a decent one! O
by HideousKojima 2y ago
>Any regime change that involves freeing many thousands of women and children from prisons notorious for torture and mass-executions seems like a decent one!
Overthrowing Gaddafi didn't make Libya a better place. Now it has open air slave markets, amongst other loveliness.
- MoreMoore 2y ago[flagged]
- threeseed 2y agoSlavery was common place during the Gaddafi era as well.
- inglor_cz 2y agoAmerican education tends to concentrate on American history of slavery, so many American are ignorant about just how widespread slavery was/is in the Islamic world and how many Muslims until today consider it a regular institution explicitly endorsed by God. I certainly wouldn't like to be a black manual worker in any Arab country. Even if you aren't a formally legally enslaved person, you will be treated as one.
- jajko 2y agoOr any other place from Asia, ie nepalis or philippinos are treated absolutely horribly in many rich middle east places. That culture, barring exceptional ethical individuals, has nothing in common with modern western values.