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Take Persia for example --- I think Persia is going through much of what Spain went through under Islam. Persians had a more civilized culture than they have now when they had their own religion --- zoroasterism was more like Christianity, a tolerant religion. Everything still beautiful about Persian culture is what is left from their pre-Islamic days. If they can ever shake loose from islam, they can reclaim some of that they had before.