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
but when one of their leaders is needing serious medical help, they go to UK
Or France!
It's hard to imagine living in a world without modern conveniences: running water that is safe to drink, electricity, food of all kinds, and the means to keep it fresh, housing that is safe, without animals in them, proper clothing depending on the weather, the list is endless.
I can't imagine living without Velcro, zip-locks, Tupperware, microwaves, or DVD's. The closest living example to the Arabian life style I can think of is the Amish, but even they are early 18th Century, not 7th century.
Arabs divided into nomadic tribes, as did the Jews; however, the Jews settled in cities in Israel centuries ago. The Arabs did not as much settle as they did build their tribes and steal from the cities around their campsites.
Saddam Hussein is the prime example of a loyal tribe member. His tribe is still trying to gain lost power, but I digress.
I think one of the ways to stop the extremist Muslims is to fill their stores with every product available to us along with the advertising we get daily. Billboards, flyer's, radio, newspapers, even TV for those who have them would change the wants and needs of a whole geographic area, not to mention a whole generation.