Is the Middle East a Direct Result of American Foreign Policy?

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The biggest shift, i think, in european society in the sixteenth and century is really the widespread use of the printing press. So even though they were slow to adopt civil rights, women's rights, gay rights and so on, they've come around because they have that base. Islam never went through an equivalent enlightenment, something like thata. What d you think about that? But i think that is absolutely correct.

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