[Grand Old Partisan]

Economic development is secondary for them to propagation and reproduction, so CK's diagnosis of shame for their economic stagnation seems mistaken. As will be adjudged by future historians, it is the non-Islamic world which is in steep decline.

[dennisw]

AKA Jihad via demographics. All Muslims including the peaceful ones play this game. The terrorists are just the leading edge. The cutting edge.

[ggekko]

The Islamic world's virtual and near universal supression of science has had severely depressive effects on their economic development. The antiquated "banking systems" which forbids the charging of interest on bnak deposits has also had a profoundly bad effect as well on their development.

When controlling for Oil revenues, the Islamic world is deperately poor and is incapable of supporting advanced technology which is universally imported across the Islamic world.

A cursory examination of Islamic government writings and Islamic literature does convey a sense of encirclement and threat that many of these countries feel for the Western powers. In most cases, their sense of inferiority has been well earned.