Quote:Because it's an economic system. The government made all their decisions for them. You can't go on having the government make all your economic decisions for you if the government is not doing that.
It was more than an economic system. It was a complete state system and ideology, and millions of people believed in it and some still do. But it no longer governs their societies and so it would be completely irrelevant to ask today "Why didn't such and such communist law from 20 years ago compel the people to still do such and such".
Quote:You could however go on respecting women, and demanding respect for women, even if the government doesn't force you to do it.
Most Arab governments promote ignorant tribalistic beliefs and practises amongst their populaces, as they know that's the best way to keep them under control. Therefore they promote ideas like "men own their women" and so forth and it's from these ideas that forced marriages arise. Nothing to do with Islam, no matter how hard you try and twist it to appear that way. Just give up already, you really look quite desperate.
Quote:Because they rejected Nazism.
Some did, some did not. There's still quite a lot of neo-nazi sentiment in Germany, and generally racist attitudes are still quite common amongst Germans. Either way, 70 years of 're-education' has removed most of the Nazi system from society, so why can't you just accept that 80 or more years of 're-education' in the former Caliphate lands has removed most of the Islamic system from those societies?
Quote:Is that why people in the middle east don't live under Islam any more?
Most were duped into it. They were fed false ideas of nationalism, which caused them to engage in infighting and thereby assist the Sykes-Picot agreement to come to fruition. It's in the history books, you don't need me to re-iterate it for you, just look up Hussein Bin Ali or Mustafa Kemal, and you'll probably find a detailed account of how a lot of it happened.