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In reply to the discussion: No Muslim family should engage in birth control: Turkey's Erdogan [View all]Igel
(35,309 posts)But it hit the radicalization problem from other Muslim states.
A large population boom fueled by a lot of lower economic status households without a lot of Western influence. Instead you got traditional values passed along to newly literate, book-educated young adults. The newly empowered lower classes were conservative, and drive the cultural agenda.
Couple this with the anti-Western attitude from many in the West: We must not impose culture, values, etc., on others; this is imperialism, and, in fact, we did them all wrong in the past so they're right in rejecting Western values. Now, this sounds reasonable until you hit the brick wall that local, traditional values are, according to Western standards, retrograde, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, etc., etc., etc.
Pitch in economic resentment caused by saying they'd all be wealthy if not for Western colonialism with the constant singing the praises of the Ottomans and Turkishness and reminding people of humiliation of the Turks and of Islam, and you're set up for a lot of problems. (Again, in 4000 years of history and knowable pre-history for pretty much the entire world you don't find extreme levels of wealth and health like you do in modern Turkey, much less much of the West, so it's not like high levels of technology, health, prosperity are the natural order of human society).