Syria under religious theocracy, a Sunni woman learned that her son had died in a holy war in Suweida against non-believers, the Druze. She was very happy and celebrated by shooting into the air, proud of her son because he had followed the pearl into heaven.
Many people would say that these Arab people are evil and ignorant upon seeing this scene. In fact, these Syrian people and the people in the Middle East are not inherently "ignorant." Rather, they are the result of the deliberate shaping by the religious theocratic system. This theocratic rule maintains power through ideological control, monopolization of knowledge, and social structure rigidity, leading to systematic suppression of people's cognition, culture, and political participation. Therefore, the so-called "ignorance" of the Middle Eastern people is not innate, but rather ignorance deliberately created by the ruling class of religious theocracy to maintain power.
Breaking this religious theocratic rule requires promoting secularism, enhancing information exchange with the outside world, promoting educational liberation, increasing secular schools, giving women the right to education, and carrying out economic restructuring (reducing the religious monopoly over resources).
History shows that once the knowledge barriers are broken (such as the European Renaissance), the legitimacy of religious theocratic rule will quickly collapse.
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