This is the list of countries with over 90% Muslim population.
South Sudan Morocco
Afghanistan Tunisia
Iran
Western Sahara Mauritania
Yemen
Tajikistan
Iraq
Jordan Mayotte
Turkey
Somalia
Azerbaijan
Maldives
Niger Comoros
Algeria
Palestinian territories
Saudi Arabia Djibouti
Libya
Uzbekistan
Pakistan
Senegal
Gambia
Egypt
Turkmenistan
Syria
Mali
Kosovo
I’ve bolded the non-shitty ones (giving the benefit of the doubt to the first 2) IMHO etc. But the rest? You’d have to hold a gun to my head to force me to live there.
Maybe you’d post your list of great Muslim places to live? I can’t wait to see this democratic cavalcade of prosperity and tolerance.
not 90% muslim. (and in fact not muslim in any great percentage at all, which shows the quality of the thinking in this listing)
is not a country.
Why you have things against the Maldives or the Turkey is puzzling to me and why you think Azerbaijan is worse than its non muslim neighbors like the georgia and the armenia
**I do not seem much besides someone engaging in their personal prejudices without any real knowledge of any countries and making copy paste lists without any sense.
Of course I know that if one was to go back only one or two decades and make some lists on dictatorship and bad living standards and violence and murder based on the catholic religion, then they also would not be flattering. This of course made no real statement about the catholic religion, but it did say very much about the bigotry of the persons making those lists.
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Yes really. The standard of living in Jordan is quite nice in the western areas outside of the desert and if you are not activist against the monarchy you do not have problems.
But of course since Alessan lives next door he knows less than some americans who live far away and read something on a webpage.
Don’t you mean “read something on a shitty webpage”? (I refer, of course, to that bit about South Sudan having more than 90% of its population Muslim.)
No. The family claims descent from the Prophet, they are Chorfa.
It is the similar concept, but you confuse Eastern traditions as universal ones. This is a Maghrebine family. There is idea about color of turban or anything about 'turbans.
The english wikipedia makes the mistake of saying that the term shareef and the term sayyid are generally different references for the Sunni islam. This is not true for the Maghreb which does not care about the difference, probably because there is not the sunni shia divide and power struggle.
I hate using the phrase “the street” but when my father was growing up in Iran quite a few people would regularly make jokes about Muhammad that were not meant to convey hatred but certainly would shock people who had this image of them as completely uptight prudes.
I.E. jokes about the carryings on in Muhammad’s home with his many wives that sound like something out of the Jerry Springer show or his rather questionable belief that if a husband threatened to stop having sex with his wife she’d start obeying him immediately.
I don’t think you’ll necessarily find stand up comedians in the Muslim world doing the same thing, but they’re hardly unknown.
Truth be told, most Muslims wouldn’t have batted an eyelash at the infamous Muhammad cartoons from Denmark.
Iran is predominantly Shia, not Sunni, so that is a significant factor. All of the really well known examples of iconoclasm are being committed by Sunni groups.
I have personally witnessed a stand-up comedian, in Tehran, Iran, back in 2004, cracking a joke about one of the twelve Shi’ite Imams. Or at least: Cracking a joke which said Imam starred in.
When doing the Imam’s voice, the guy cupped a hand around the mic, leaned in, and dramatically lowered his voice, for the right booming “authoritah” effect.
Turkey has slid down my scale as they’ve gradually pulled back from some of Attaturk’s secularism. I’d still be fine with living there although I’d worry about long term continued erosion of secularism.
Kosovo is pretty and the Balkans has some draw to me. It’s issues are more a matter of ethnicity than religion (although the lines blur since Former Republic of Yugoslavia ethnicities are strongly correlated with religion in the Balkans and one group the Bosniacs is almost defined by their religion.) Parts of FRY that weren’t Muslim dominated had the same issues. It’s still got huge issues. I wouldn’t make the case that Islam is the root of those issues (although some Serb ultra-nationalists explicitly make that case.)
Many of the African countries … well I’d want to avoid many that are Christian majorities. Much of Africa is shitty for rule of law, personal freedom, etc regardless of the dominant religion. Religion certainly doesn’t seem like it’s among the root causes.
Anti-vaxers. Moon hoaxers. Alt med nuts. These are all minority groups who are grouped together by a common ideology. Can we not satirize them, because the dominant group shouldn’t pick on the minority groups? Or is religion special above all other silly belief systems and immune from criticism?
Anti-vaxers are not a race, nor a class. Moon hoaxes are not a race, nor a class. Alt med nuts are not a race nor a class. Muslims are not a race, nor a class. Those things are all ideologies. Beliefs that anyone can subscribe to.
Are you saying that I could make fun of a moon hoaxer who was white, but not non-white? I should only be conscious of their race, and not their beliefs?
Does that also mean that I’m allowed to criticize Christianity, as the dominant religion in my culture, as much as I like, but using the same sort of criticisms against Islam is “tacky at best”?
If there were a particular alt med claim that were mostly held by non-whites, would that then also be immune from criticism? I could see it now: “Oh, people think you can stick cactus plants up your ass to cure MS. Quick, someone take a poll to see which race makes up most of the believers so I can figure out whether or not I can criticize it.”
You seem like a race-baiting asshole who only sees the world in terms of race, but goes around criticizing phantom racism everywhere in people who aren’t actually seeing the world only in terms of race. Certainly you are incapable of understanding this irony.