[Reddit]r/worldnews – Bangladesh mob beats, burns man to death on blasphemy charges
Over the Cold War, the Soviets usually propped up nationalist secular regimes in the Middle East while the US/UK propped up Sunni fundamentalists. For instance, Pakistan's turn to Islamism was fueled by the US propping up Zia-ul-Haq, who was a military dictator who "Islamified" much of Pakistani law by ...