Top 10 People that Most Changed the Middle East for the Worse
People, both from within and outside the Middle East, who contributed to negative changes in the region.Real dictator.
How is this guy not on here? He publicly killed thousands of civilians and even had people telling him to go to hell when he was being hanged.
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I'm sorry if this seems like another overload of Donald Trump criticism, but in a way, I can't say he's really done more good than bad for the Middle East. He decided to proclaim Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and while I can see that this isn't inherently evil, this decision has only caused more turmoil between Israel and Palestine.
The devil himself!
"Saudi King Khaled, however, did not react to the upheaval by cracking down on religious puritans in general, but by giving the ulama and religious conservatives more power over the next decade. He is thought to have believed that the solution to the religious upheaval was simple: more religion. First, photographs of women in newspapers were banned, then women on television. Cinemas and music shops were shut down. The school curriculum was changed to provide many more hours of religious studies, eliminating classes on subjects like non-Islamic history. Gender segregation was extended to the humblest coffee shop. The religious police became more assertive." ~ Wikipedia, Grand Mosque Seizure via Aftermath via Policies.
Once I read that, I had to put him in the top three on the list.