Carbon_FWB

Mooove bitch, get out the whey...

It's a joke that works maybe 2% of the time, so when I see a whole where it fits, I try to skim some karma.

Thanks! The rhetoric here in America pushes the idea that all muslims want sharia law, not democracy. But there's a lot of incorrect cultural information here, to be sure.

Your job can sometimes be thankless, so let me say thank you for what you do!

conflicting value sets

You said it, brother. I'm in the bible belt south, where everyone talks like Billy Graham, believes like Christopher Hitchens, and acts like Caligula.

Do you think any place in the middle east could pivot to a successful single party parliamentary republic (like Singapore, for example) since western style democracy seems to be an ill fit, culturally speaking?