See also this related article:<p>Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It (nytimes.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603360" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603360</a>
The future is unevenly distributed, some places are still in the 14th centuary.<p>To not be facetious - progress does not go in any one direction and if we believe in enlightenment values we need to keep making the arguments.