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[–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just like with the Iranian revolution, pictures of the top 1% urban middle class leading Western-ish lifestyles are used to pretend the whole country was like that.

Then any reversion back to Islamic backwards ideas is painted as due to a fault by the West undermining their progress rather than something which is always bubbling under in these counties, and with majority support.