# I pit the statement from the US Embassy in Cairo

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**Created:** [September 11, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-statement-from-the-us-embassy-in-cairo/634432 "2012-09-11T21:24:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-statement-from-the-us-embassy-in-cairo/634432/100 "2012-09-12T15:25:07Z")

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> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#):
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> Your entire post was filled with bigoted ignorant bullshit, but this statement quite possibly takes the cake.  
> Until rather recently, virtually of the of majority Muslim countries in the Middle East were ruled by secular dictatorships propped up by either the West or the Soviet bloc. That, along with the failure of Arab nationalism as practiced by Nasser, Arafat, and many others is what gave rise to radical Islam.
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> I’d recommend actually visiting the region or at least reading up on it before shooting off your mouth and hitting your foot.

No, what gave rise to radical Islam is an entire population of extremely ignorant, uneducated people. Islam has produced garbage society and its people are garbage, they are ignorant and anti-education and this has caused a centuries long stagnation of all of their cultures. From the heights of the Ottoman Empire Islam has caused an intellectual and social decay that has made Muslim countries a backwards, barbaric, imbecilic laughing stock. Pathetic, grotesque, weak and stupid compared to even the most backward Western country.

These people are little better than our animal forebears and should not be considered as rational humans. They were raised irrationally and think irrationally, and are incompatible with our modern world. They should be segregated from the modern world and punished at every turn. I’d start with destroying all their water and electric facilities, as they do not deserve the benefit of modern utilities. We can let all their well trained engineers and scientists rebuild them.

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