Why Is The Muslim World So Easily Offended?

Being Turkish, an ethnicity that has more in common with the West than the Muslim world, I like to compare what went right for us in history to make us civilised, and what went wrong for the rest of the Muslim world to make them fundamentalist.

1: We had the Ottoman Empire, we were never subjects of Europeans, in fact Eastern Europeans were our subjects. We soundly defeated European attempts at taking over our land (Turkish war of independence) once our empire crumbled. So we don't feel inferior to Europeans, our national psyche isn't "butthurt" for lack of a better term. Whereas most of the Muslim world were colonised by Europeans so they've had somewhat of a bruised ego.

2: After we won the war of independence our Republic was set up as a Secular democracy on the Western (French) model. This meant Islam was totally eradicated from public affairs, although the Ottoman Empire was already pretty much a constitutional democracy towards the end anyway. What this means is we democractised organically and from within ourselves, just like Europeans. We didn't have it imposed on us. But the rest of the Muslim world had it forced upon them when they were ruled by Western empires, so it was rejected.

3: Many Turks look white. I reckon the simple fact many of us look just like Europeans from a racial standpoint makes it easier for us to be friends with the West. It's easier to rel…