Posted on 12/06/2005 8:59:16 AM PST by elfman2
Muslims make up 22% of the World’s population, according to the United Nations' Arab Human Development Report: "Half of Arab women cannot read; One in five Arabs live on less than $2 per day; Only 1 percent of the Arab population has a personal computer, and only half of 1 percent use the Internet; Fifteen percent of the Arab workforce is unemployed; 60% of Muslims are illiterate”. Only two Muslims have won the Nobel prize in a scientific field - Dr. Abdus Salam, in 1979 for Physics and Dr. Ahmed Zewail, in 1992 for Chemistry. Dr Salam a native of Pakistan , is not considered to be a Muslim in his home country as he follows the Ahmadiyyas sect of Islam.
Only 600 universities service a Muslim population of 1.2 billion in 57 countries. Half the universities concentrate on teaching Islamic education and science. India has 8,407 universities for 1 billion people and the United States has 5,758 for 280 million people. The combined annual GDP (purchasing power parity basis) of the 57 Muslim countries is under $2 trillion. The US produces goods and services worth $10.4 trillion; China $5.7 trillion, Japan $3.5 trillion, India $3 trillion and Germany $2.1 trillion. The oil rich states Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services worth $430 billion; Thailand alone produces goods and services worth $429 billion.
Underachievement by Muslims was not always the case claim Muslims and point to a glorious and illustrious time when the Arab Muslim empire was the most advanced and enlightened in the world. Many discoveries were made in the period 750 – 1250 AD according to Muslims. Critical analysis of this period shows that many of the advancements and discoveries we falsely attribute to Muslims were actually made by the ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean area, or by the ancient Chinese and Indian civilisations.
Muslims believe, that glass mirrors, were first developed by Muslim Spain in the 11th century. Around 1290 Venetians learned how to produce glass from the Spanish Muslims. The Romans invented the glass mirror around the 1st century. Research by Reinuad and Fave, indicates that Muslims chemists were the first to develop the formula for gunpowder and later produced firearms. The Chinese knew the formula for gunpowder and used it for military purposes during the Sung dynasty of the 12th century. Muslims boast that they laid the foundations for modern mathematics and two of its main branches, geometry and trigonometry. The Muslim contribution was merely to collect and combine the work done by the Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, Persians and Romans. The Indian civilisation gave us the concept of zero and modern numbers. Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician, (598 – 665 AD) can be accredited with the initial work on algebra and negative numbers. The trigonometry terms sine and cosine have there origin in Sanskrit, the ancient language of India .
The underachievement and underperformance by Muslims is acute in the 57 Islamic countries. Muslims claim that they are recovering from a long period of colonisation and de colonisation and the effects of the removal of the Palestinian people from Arab lands. How about the achievements of Muslims who live and work in the West? Well the truth is not that much better than their cousins in Muslim countries.
The United Kingdom census of 2001 for the first time looked at the nation’s religious background. The findings showed that Muslims make up 2.8% of the UK population. Hindus 1%, Sikhs 0.6, Buddhists and Jews both make up 0.5% of the UK population. 31% of Muslims of working age have no qualifications, the highest of any religious group. As in many countries owing your own home is a major achievement and financial responsibility. 82% of Sikhs followed by 78% of Jews own their own home in the UK . Only 52% of Muslims own their own home, the lowest of any religious group. 14% of Muslims are unemployed, compared to 8% of Sikhs and 6% of Hindus. The underachievement of Muslims is even more bleak when you examine where most Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhist in the UK come from. 75% of Muslims, 97% of Hindus, 98 % of Sikhs and 69% of Buddhists in the UK are from or have ancestral links to South Asia . Therefore any cultural factors can be largely ruled out when comparing the achievement of Muslims with people from other religious groups. Muslims complain that they have to overcome language difficulties and face discrimination in the UK and state this as a factor in there poor performance. Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs face the same language and discrimination issues as Muslims, yet their achievements and performance is much better than Muslims.
The underachievement of Muslims should come as no surprise to those of us who understand the true nature of Islam. Everything a Muslim needs to know is in the Koran, Hadith or Sunnah. Muslims are not encouraged to seek knowledge and better themselves. Muslims are against progress, modernity and science. Those that control Islam do not want to see Muslims educated as an educated Muslim will apply commonsense and logic to the Koran and see it for what its is, a collection of distorted Bible and Torah stories and in print the mind of a 7th century Bedouin bandit leader.
References
United Nations' Arab Human Development Report 2002
United Nations' Arab Human Development Report 2003
World Book Encyclopaedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chronology of Science and Discovery Isaac Asimov's
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/focuson/religion/
Look on the bright side! The average muslim may be uneducated and dirt poor, but he probably is much better at making an IED, or a bomb jacket than your average Indian, or westerner.
Also: rejection of the Gold Standard.
I've been saying for years that the only things mooselims have invented were hummus and terror. Not sure they invented hummus, it might have been a Jewish "invention".
They are "stuck on stupid"...that's why they aren't productive or inventive.
Islam spread across the world and conquered several distinct gene pools. But the core of Islam is Arabia and the Arabs are Semites. They share common ancestry with the Jewish people who are also Semites.
The Jews have produced the greatest number of Nobel Prize winners in proportion to their population of any ethnic group. The Arabs have produced perhaps the least. Given the common ancestry, I would say it was cultural rather than genetic.
Because strapping on an explosive belt and blowing up a bunch of their own bretheren is their self-appointed purpose in life.
Because they rape their cousins.
Well, they've been marrying their first cousins for a couple thousand years.
Wow, and these underacheivers were still able to destroy the lives of thousands and destroy a major NYC landmark.
Imagine what they could do if they applied themselves.
These people are dangerous, and we should not underestimate them.
Yeah, that's why China and India are such hellholes. [ /SARCASM ]
Should not be a surprise that people who want to bomb the earth back into the 12th Century have not made much progress beyond that timeframe.
One well placed nuke might do a world of good - it worked well with Japan.
One of their biggest problems is they believe that borrowing money is a sin. Therefore it's hard for them to build businesses, or acquire land and property.
George Patton in "War As I Knew It" is quite succinct. A quote . "One cannot but ponder the question: What if the Arabs had been Christians? To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing. Here, I think, is a text for some eloquent sermon on the virtues of Christianity."
Also, getting on your knees with ass in the air 5 times a day tends to break your train of thought.
First, they are to be occupied taking over the world spreading islam, the spoils of war are to be theirs, does not account for a great working ethic when you are to steal and murder for a living.
Second, their nations are to be blessed by riches because they are good muslims God will show the world how blessed by him by they are by their riches. (this is one of the reasons they hate the Christian west so much, we are not suppose to be richer than them because we are infidels God should not be blessing us according to the koran).
Third, women are nothing but slaves and keeping them uneducated is only one of the ways to keeping power over them, besides why educate them when they have only one third the thinking ability of men according to the koran. Just imagine what they are teaching the children.
Fourth, science and history prove the koran false over and over again so how can you educate your kids with facts when it destroys the koran's validity so factually education is not highly looked upon. So when most of your population does not trust their children to be taught facts it does not produce brilliant achievers.
Fifth, it is hard to do business with the world when as a muslim you do not have to keep contracts made with non-muslims. As a matter of fact they are to be taken advantage of if you feel like it. You quickly loose trading partners to those more trustworthy.
None of these make for producing a very productive society.
Actually, they should be proud of all these stats; it ain't easy learning how to read and learning how to use a computer, etc., when you're so doggone dumb.
The Noblest Triumph by Tom Bethell...has the answer you seek. --- Eightball
An excellent book, I might add. He also pointed out the treatment of animals in the Arab world.
"One of their biggest problems is they believe that borrowing money is a sin. Therefore it's hard for them to build businesses, or acquire land and property."
They do not seem to have the belief that taking something which does not belong to them is also a sin.
I notice the computer use statistics are for Arabs rather than Muslims. I wonder what the percentage is when you separate out the Christian Arabs?
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