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Instead of freedom, we now see social breakdown.\u00a0 Looters are plundering everything, as they did in Iraq when Saddam\u2019s regime was overthrown.\u00a0 A culture that relies on strong external controls to ensure social order can go wild when those external controls are no longer there.\u00a0 That seems to be happening here.\u00a0 Are all Islamic countries going to do that, due to being all Law, as opposed to societies influenced by Christianity, which stresses inner transformation through the Gospel?\u00a0 Meanwhile, in Egypt, the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood is organizing vigilantes to protect people\u2019s property.\u00a0 That\u2019s an ominous sign.<\/p>\n

\nSee Egypt vigilantes defend homes as police disappear | Reuters<\/a>\n

And now the Arab revolution seems to have now spread to Jordan!<\/p>\n

An op-ed piece in the Washington Post says that the uprisings show that George Bush was right<\/a>, that people in the Islamic world do crave freedom and democracy. Maybe so. Then again, it didn\u2019t take us invading to bring down these tyrannies. But what kind of freedom are the people getting?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"