> 1300+ years of inbreeding with no actual outgroups, marrying your cousin is practically the only thing to do 90% of the time > slavish dedication to a warlord's autistic manual of how to live your life while forcing a traditionalist lifestyle being miserable in the desert > your "golden age" was really just rediscovering greek and roman works from a thousand years ago, only repurposing them and pretending it was yours > despite having the potential of a grand unified religion, experience a schism so catastrophic that people are still getting into proxy holy wars over who was the rightful heir to your prophet in the current year > lose multiple caliphates and empires over the years due to infighting and power struggles rather than any actual external force > get colonized by western powers at your collective lowest point and then once they released your countries, being unable to cope that your civilization was at its most peaceful and stable when being ruled by foreign powers who didn't give a single flying fuck about your religion > turn your ire to jews because israel is now an independent country that has some holy sites but more importantly, is semi-functional and prosperous due to britain funding and developing the land because it was arable compared to 90% of your lands being desert > get your ass kicked because you literally thought jezails from the 1800s could beat a society that emerged out of ww2-era technology
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