Crisis Of Islamic Entities

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Can Islam ever be a successful civilization?

Islamic scholar Dr. Bernard Lewis is doubtful of this most backward people known primarily for terrorism, death and destruction...

Bernard Lewis, "The Crisis of Islam"

Almost the entire Muslim world is affected by poverty and tyranny. The combinatoin of low productivity and high birth rate in the Middle East makes for an untenable mix, with a large and rapidly growing population of unemployed, uneducated and frustrated young men. By all indicators from the United Nations, the World Bank and other authorities, the Arab countries--in matters such as job creation, education, technology and productivity--lag further behind the West. Even worse, the Arab nations also lag behind the more recent recruits to Western-style democracy, such as Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.

The comparative figures on the performance of Muslim countries, as reflected in these statistics, are devastating.

In the listing of economies by gross domestic product, the highest ranking Muslim majority country is Turkey, with 64 million inhabitants, in 23rd place, between Austria and Denmark, with about 5 million each. The next is Indonesia, with 212 million, in 28th place, following Norway with 4.5 million and followed by Saudi Arabia with 21 million. In comparative purchasing power, the first Muslim state is Indonesia in 15th place followed by Turkey in 19th place. In living standards as reflected by gross domestic product per head, the first Muslim state is Qatar, in 23rd place, followed by the United Arab Emirates in 23rd place and Kuwait in 28th.

In a listing of industrial output, the highest-ranking Muslim country is Saudi Arabia, number 21, followed by Indonesia, tied with Austria and Belgium in 22nd place and Turkey, tied with Norway in 27th place.

In a listing by manufacturing output, the highest ranking Arab country is Egypt, in 35th place, tying with Norway.

In a listing of life expectancy, the first Arab state is Kuwait, in 32nd place. In ownership of telephone lines per hundred people, the first Muslim country listed is the UAE in 33rd place. In ownership of computers per hundred people, the first Muslim state listed is Bahrain in 30th place.

Book sales present an even more dismal picture. A listing of 27 countries, beginning with the United States and ending with Viet Nam, does not include a single Muslim state. In a human development index, Brunei is number 32, Kuwait 36, Bahrain 40, Qatar 41, the UAE 44, Libya 66 and Saudi Arabia 68.

According to a report on Arab Human Development prepared by a committee of Arab intellectualss, reveals, "the Arab world translates about 330 books annually, one-fifth of the number that Greece translates. The total of translated books since the 9th century is about 100,000, almost the average that Spain translates in one year.

The economic situation is no better. "The GDP in all Arab countries combined stood at $531 billion in 1999---less than that of a single European country, Spain [$595 billion]
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Can Islam ever be a successful civilization?

Islamic scholar Dr. Bernard Lewis is doubtful of this most backward people known primarily for terrorism, death and destruction...

You treat muslims, like the nazis treated the jews.

What goes around, comes around.

 

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Winston Churchill...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

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UN: Arab World Rife with Illiteracy & Lacks Innovation

U.N. report finds one third of Arabs illiterate and only $10 per person spent on scientific research. The level of education, research and innovation in the Arab world is appalling, a new United Nations report has claimed.

The report, produced as part of a partnership between the United Nations Development Program and the United Arab Emirates-based Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, found that despite the efforts of scientists and researchers throughout the region, the Arab world makes up only 1.1% of global scientific publishing and the low level of investment into research has led to relatively low levels of innovation throughout the Arab world.
Examining a number of aspects of "the current Arab knowledge landscape," the report expressed "grave concerns over the state of education in the Arab world," with over one third of the adult population unable to read or write and major educational discrepancies between males and females.

The report found that despite 20% of national budgets in the Arab world being spent on education over the past 40 years, the average Arab individual reads very little compared to other societies and around 60 million Arabs are illiterate, two thirds of them women.

With almost nine million primary school-aged children not attending school in the Arab world, it is predicted that only a few select Arab nations will meet the universal primary education goal of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.

The report's harshest criticism was reserved for the lack of investment in academic and scientific research, hampering the ability of Arab nations to meet global occupational, technical and higher education standards. The report found that spending on scientific research in the Arab world does not exceed 0.3% of most nations' GDP and is 97% dependent on government funding.

While nations like Finland were found to spend over $1000 per person on scientific research each year, less than $10 per person is spent annually on scientific research in the Arab world. As a result, the number of patents registered with Arab national institutions is minimal and Arab scientists and researchers account for 1.1% of global scientific publishing.

"Things are really bad," Dr Ghassan Khateeb, Vice President of Community Affairs at Birzeit University in the Palestinian Territories, told The Media Line. "There is a direct relation between the lack of investment and the problematic situation we find ourselves in relation to knowledge."

"This is all related to politics," he continued. "The lack of democracy and lack of knowledge reinforce each other: the lack of education contributes to the lack of democracy and the fact that rulers can remain rulers without the will of the people. In turn, the fact that there is no proper democracy in the Arab world means that there is less incentive among rulers to really invest in knowledge of the kinds of things that have a positive impact on the public which would elect them."

"When there are vicious circles you have to work on both education and democratization together," he said.

The report was also critical of the quality of university education, citing a lack of emphasis on modern communication technologies and specialized sciences. "As a result," the UNDP wrote in a statement, "the region lacks a critical mass of highly skilled professionals equipped with the ability to innovate and capable of answering the needs of the marketplace."
UN: Arab World Rife with Illiteracy & Lacks Innovation | Menassat

 

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Can Islam ever be a successful civilization?

Islamic scholar Dr. Bernard Lewis is doubtful of this most backward people known primarily for terrorism, death and destruction...

You treat muslims, like the nazis treated the jews.

What goes around, comes around.

The islamonazis sided with the nazis in WW II The nazis actually used islime as their model for world supremacy. Didn't work out too well in the end. Doesn't look very promising for islime, either.

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Bahrain Protests Turn Deadly...

Protester dies as Bahrain Grand Prix tensions mount
Sat April 21, 2012 - The British foreign minister voices "concern" to his Bahraini counterpart; The public prosecutor is investigating a man's death, the interior ministry says; Opposition groups say the man found dead is an activist who was protesting peacefully; Protesters say the Gulf kingdom is cracking down on protest ahead of Sunday's race

Opposition groups said Saturday that a protester died after clashes with security forces, amid claims the government is cracking down on demonstrations ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Bahrain's opposition party Al-Wefaq and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights said the man, identified as Salah Abbas Habib Musa, took part in a peaceful protest Friday evening that was violently broken up by security forces. His body was found early Saturday on a farm in a village outside the capital of Manama.

The interior ministry said the public prosecutor had launched an investigation into the 36-year-old man's death. He was "pronounced dead at the scene, with a wound to his left side" and will undergo an autopsy, the interior ministry statement said. "The investigation is ongoing but the death is being treated as homicide," it said. Police and protesters clashed in the area Friday night, witnesses told the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, with security forces using of tear gas, bird shot and stun grenades. Several protesters were detained by riot police, the witnesses said.

The ministry appealed for people to await the results of the autopsy rather than heeding speculation on social media about how the man died. "The government condemns all acts of violence and will ensure the perpetrators of this crime, whoever they may be, will be brought to justice," said public security chief Maj. Gen. Tariq al Hassan. Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Khalifa spoke Saturday with British Foreign Secretary William Hague about the situation, according to Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Hague said that he spoke to his Bahraini counterpart "to express our concern about the violence in Bahrain, to call for restraint in dealing with protests -- including during the Formula 1 race -- and to urge further progress in implementing political reforms," according to the statement. The British government "supports the reforms already underway," including efforts to hold those "responsible for human rights abuses" accountable, and called for "the release of prisoners sentenced by the military court." There are mounting fears that civil unrest in Bahrain could upend Sunday's race and pose a threat to Formula 1 teams and fans.

More Protester dies as Bahrain Grand Prix tensions mount - CNN.com

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What they have said about the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix
Saturday 21 April 2012 - A collection of comments from key players in the controversial Formula One grand prix in Bahrain

'I genuinely believe this race is a force for good. It unites many people from many different religious backgrounds, sects and ethnicities, under the roof of Formula One … I think cancelling the race would just empower extremists'

Crown Prince Salman (right)

'Given the violence we have seen in Bahrain and given the human rights abuses, I don't believe the grand prix should go ahead. I hope that the government will say the same'

Ed Miliband

'It's a matter for Formula One. Let me be clear, we always stand up for human rights and it's important that peaceful protests are allowed to go ahead. But I think we should be clear: Bahrain is not Syria'

David Cameron

'There is blood on the tracks and anyone who drives over them will never be forgiven'

More What they have said about the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix | Sport | The Observer