[Astronaut]

Well written. You'd get kicked off a college campus for saying it, but the truth is that Arab culture is inferior. They are backwards and brutal, and cannot compete with us in any area that matters. In 1945, we destroyed Japanese imperialism and replaced it with a copy of our democracy and free enterprise system. One hopes we can destroy Islamic fascism and do the same in our era.

[VOA]

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[tet68]

the Jews don’t thwart Muslim development. And if they, in their puny numbers, actually did, whose fault would that be, the Jews or the Muslims?

Bump.

[Flux Capacitor]

Islam kills.

-Dan

[68skylark]

The Arab world stagnates because it substitutes obedience to authority and superstition for receptivity to ideas. There is, then, a reason why it would be impossible to conceive of people like Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi and Mullah Omar ever holding positions of authority in a Western nation.

Great article. I liked every single sentence except this one.

We've had several leaders of western nations who fit in well with Saddam, Gadhafi and Mullah Omar. No one in the west should think our civilizations are immune from this type of ruler.

It is true that we're less likely to have this type of ruler, because of a number of superior features in our culture. But it can happen here if good citizens aren't careful.

[neverdem]

Excellent post.

[Loyalist]

The Germanic tribes were culturally inferior to the Romans right up until the Western Roman Empire fell.

Even in its decadence, Western Europe is still superior culturally to the Muslims who will overtake its native population in another 100 years.

Islam may be an inferior culture in all respects, but its adherents have a self-confidence in it that the West has lost in its own culture.

[Qwinn]

"only one in 20 students in Arab universities studies science and engineering."

Wow, interesting statistic. Any idea what the source is, and more importantly what the other 19 out of 20 are studying?

Qwinn

[narses]

A Muslim ping.

[Akira]

But wait, multiculturalists swear that all cultures are morally equivalent!

The Arab countries of the middle east sit on a black gold mine and have never seen any need to develop any other industry. If you subtract oil, the total exports of the Arab world (all of North Africa and the Middle East, minus Israel) amount to less than those of Finland (a country of 5 million inhabitants, or less than one 50th of the Arab world's population).

But it's never their fault, and they've convinced the vast majority of their population of this.

[Maria S]

“The Muslim world, most especially its Arab branch, is pathetically poor, militarily incompetent and ruled by some of the world’s most vulgar and brutal despots.”

What an irony, given that there’s enough oil under their land to make everyone there quite well off. The “world’s most vulgar and brutal despots” of the Muslim world seem to know how to best control their natural resources, don’t they?



“Perhaps the most stunning data concern the stagnant condition of Arab intellectual life, as reflected in educational approaches that breed, in the words of the report’s authors, "submission, obedience, subordination and compliance rather than free critical thinking."


“Stagnant condition of…intellectual life…that breed subordination and compliance rather than free critical thinking”…THAT little tidbit ought to get our attention, if nothing else. Exactly what are OUR “educational approaches” breeding these days besides the dumbing down of American kids?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The Multicultural Fifth Column

Multiculturalists will tell you that claims of cultural superiority are racist.

[redheadtoo]

it would be impossible to conceive of people like Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi and Mullah Omar ever holding positions of authority in a Western nation.

If Hussein had been born in the West he would be a prison lifer. The only leadership position he would ever hold would be in a prison gang. Gadhafi and Omar would, for their own safety and well being, be confined in a state hospital.

[Cacique]

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[F.J. Mitchell]

BTTT!

[LibWhacker]

As long as even educated Muslims like Mahathir find it so convenient to blame Israel and America for the dismal condition of their lands, those lands will remain weak, poor and pathetic.

Dang, I had it wrong; I should've cheered when Mahathir spoke up.

[dennisw]

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[melsec]

Hey Quid,

Just to correct an error in the first line - Mahathir was the Prime Minister of Malaysia not Indonesia.

Mel

[Aquinasfan]

This was printed in a newspaper? Things in Arkansas are different than they are here in Massachusetts. Take Cambridge, please.