"….in their minds one thing doesn’t come from another thing. Nothing is the result of anything. Everything merely is, and no questions asked. Even the language they speak is constructed around that. Each fact is separate, and one never depends on the other. Everything is explained by the constant intervention of Allah. And whatever happens had to happen, and was decreed at the beginning of time, and there’s no way of even imagining how anything could be different from what it is."
From "The Spider’s House", by Paul Bowles, who lived in Morocco and wrote several famous books on the country.
One of four posts on the Moslem way of life.
Which helps to explain their relative docility in the face of repression. Since Islam is a way of life and thinking, it cannot be treated as a religion like Christianity, which is a adjunct to life for most people, not a centrality. So when the West invades Islamic countries with new ideas it must be hostile to everything they believe to be told that they can have control over their lives.
Democracy is truly a foreign concept.