The backwardness or failure of the Muslim world --- whether in knowledge and science, in politics and governance, or in development and human rights --- are nothing but the fruits of Islam.
The fruit never falls far from the tree. What are the practical results of Islam’s political and cultural ideology? What is the fruit on the tree? Islam is a complete civilization that rejects every aspect of kafir civilization as being inferior. Islam’s Golden Age claim is an assertion that Islam is the superior civilization. The Koran says that Muslims are the best of nations.How does the best of nations compare at the level of politics, economics, and culture?
Islam claims that the Koran is the perfect book with the perfect political and social doctrine that will make Muslims intellectually superior to kafirs. Remember that the Koran is the perfect recording of the mind of infinitely intelligent god, Allah, so Muslims should be the absolute leader in knowledge and ideas. Islam is the finest, most perfect idea that can exist.
Knowledge
First, a personal question: what Muslim author have you read lately? That is a personal approach and since this book is about objective reasoning, we need objective data. The United Nations has put together a series of four books that measure Arab society. Now Arabs are a minority of Muslims, but there is little data about Islam as an entire civilization and so the Arabs have to represent all of Islam. The Arabs are the oldest Muslims and Saudi Arabia can make a claim to being the most perfect Islamic nation. Mohammed was from there, and the Koran makes special claims about the Quraysh tribe and Arabs in general. So the Arabs are not a perfect measure but they are the best measure.
The most popular way to move information today is the Internet. England has about 48% of its population connected to the Internet; while Saudi Arabia has 2% of its population connected to the Internet. High-income nations have 380 computers per thousand people. Arab nations have 20 computers per thousand people. The world as a whole has 80 per thousand.
But there is not as much need for a Muslim to explore the information on the Internet. “Starting in early childhood, the [Arab] child becomes accustomed to suppressing her or his inquisitive and exploratory tendencies.”
The education curricula “seem to encourage submission, obedience, subordination and compliance, rather than free critical thinking.”This lack of critical thinking can be seen in patents. Over a 20-year period, Saudi Arabia got 171 patents, while South Korea to 16,328 patents.This is a natural result from the research and development funding. Sweden spends 3.1% of its GNP on research, while the Arab states spend 0.2%.Switzerland has 79.9 frequently cited scientific papers per million of citizens. Saudi Arabia has 0.07 frequently cited papers per million of citizens.What that means is that Saudi Arabia published 1 paper that was frequently cited by others.
The thirst for knowledge can be seen in that in the five-year period from 1970-75 only 330 books were translated per year. There have been only 10,00 books translated into Arabic in the last 1200 years.That is less than one book per year over the centuries. As a comparison, Spain translates 10,000 books per year into Spanish. In scientific publications the industrialized nations generate about 6 publications per ten million citizens, while the Arab countries create about 0.1 per ten million citizens.
There is no known indicator that shows even an area of superiority to kafir culture, except one—books published on religion. The world as a whole devotes about 5% of its books to religion, but Arab countries devote 17% of its book publishing to religion. Islamic Arab countries publish 340% more books on religion than kafirs, while, in general, obtaining about 10% of the intellectual results in all other areas.
It is not that the kafir countries are that much better than Muslim countries, but that Islamic nations are so much worse. Islamic intellectual philosophy is to follow Mohammed in a rote, mechanical way and that practice makes for a substandard intellectual competitiveness. Even in religious matters, a Muslim is not supposed to ask difficult questions or challenge the imam.
Arab government effectiveness
The UN report includes a measurement called an “indicator of government effectiveness and corruption”. The indicator uses a few hundred variables that measure perception of governance derived from 25 sources provided by 18 different organizations.
One survey showed that 61% of respondents knew of favoritism and 50% knew of bribery that was used in government during the last year. In addition the leading way to avoid a penalty is favoritism and bribery.
Voice and Accountability is a cluster of indicators measuring civil and political rights. For North America, the indicator is 1.3. The indicator for Arab governments is negative 1.2.This is worse than Africa, usually the bottom of any list.
The Political Stability indicator measures the likelihood of the government being overthrown. The indicator for Europe is 0.7; the Arab states is minus 0.8.
Government Effectiveness measures the quality of services. The index of Government Effectiveness is 1.7 for North America and negative 0.6 for Arab states.
Rule of Law measure the extent to which legal provision enjoy confidence and are adhered to. The indicator for Rule of Law is 1.7 in North American and minus 0.4 for Arab governments.
The Control of Corruption indicator measure the extent of corruption. For North American this indicator is 1.8; for Arab states it is negative 0.4.Only Africa is worse.
None of this corruption and incompetence should be a surprise. Mohammed laid down the ethics and philosophy of government. He was a tribal chief who was an absolute tyrant. He advised others to kill, lie and deceive as a basis for establishment of government. Violence was used to bring others under control. Favors were dispensed for whatever his current needs were. There were complaints as to how he gave money to favorites, including his family. Anyone who opposed him was assassinated. Mohammed used to give money to those he thought would make them lean towards Islam. He used money to buy influence. Why is it surprising that Muslims would use bribery and favoritism as a method of government? Mohammed did it; bribery is Sunna. The fruit does not fall far from the tree.
Human Development
The UN defines human development as making the best use of capabilities and the economic, political and social opportunities that are available. It would make sense that the best of nations would have the greatest human development.
Sociologists use an index, Human Development Index, HDI that measures life expectancy, education, freedom and wealth. The best score is a zero and the lowest score is 100. North America has an HDI of 8 and the Arab states have an HDI of 75.
The UN also uses a Freedom Score to measure political freedom. A value of 1 is best and zero is the worst. North America has a Freedom Score of 0.9 and the Arabs states score is 0.15.
Women
The Arab states have one of the world’s lowest rates of female education. In Arab states “half of the women are illiterate as compared to a third of the men.”“The rate of illiteracy in the Arab world is higher than the world average and higher even than for developing nations.”
The Arab nations have the world’s lowest rate of women earning money, 33%, even lower than Sub-Saharan Africa.
In share of women in parliament, the Arab states are the world’s lower percentage.
All of these results are from the theory of Islam. None are surprising. According to Islam, a woman only has worth in having children and pleasing her husband.
Conclusion
There is no known area of civilization that is measurable that Arabs do not finish either last or next to last. There is a good reason—Islam. Islam’s civilizational doctrine shapes everything. The educational system that creates ignorance, lack of creativity, narrowness, and prejudiced views is based upon Islam. Islamic religious doctrine teaches total submission to the doctrine. Total submission means rote learning. The Hadith forbids questioning. Doctrine teaches that not only is Islam right in all matters, but Islam is all that matters and the kafirs are always wrong and hated by Allah. Learning from kafirs is resisted and done primarily in technology.
Islamic political doctrine is based upon a mass of people who are slaves to the doctrine of political Islam. The slave is the ideal citizen. The Sunna is that Mohammed rose to power with the sword and was an absolute ruler. Out of thousands of pages of source doctrine that teach absolute obedience to the leader, Mohammed, less than a page shows an example of democracy by him consulting with others about decisions. Mohammed spoke and all obeyed.
Koran 2:143 We have made you [Muslims] the best of nations so that you can be witnesses over the world and so that the messenger may be a witness for you.
Arab Human Development Report 2003: Building a Knowledge Society, UN Publications, 2003, pg. 46.
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written by Shibli Zaman , September 19, 2009
written by Someone , September 19, 2009
written by Someone , September 19, 2009
Really, most of the people who convert are being lied to and only told the positive aspects of Islam. These are also people who were either raised in another religion first and are looking for an alternative but can't fathom the idea of becoming atheist, agnost or deist as they're mind has been tainted by religion. Or they're ex-party girls who think Islam will give them dignity. Or people who have a lot of emotional baggage and just need some form of distraction and stability in their life, and again not being able to find this in something else than religion. Oh and we can't forget about all the convicts who have commited rape, murder, theft, and other disgusting criminal acts that convert to Islam because it promises all their past sins will be forgiven.
George Bernard Shaw lived in the 19th and early 20th century, what a good indicator for the modern world. He was also pretty positive about communism, should we become communists? Quoting from his wikipedia page:
"In his will, Shaw stated that his "religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution." He requested that no one should imply that he accepted the beliefs of any specific religious organization, and that no memorial to him should "take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.""
In other words, just the average Westerner that once said something positive about Islam but refused to convert to it regardless because deep down inside he knew it was a load of crap. I'd also like to see the context in which he apparently said what you're talking about. Islam can bring peace to Europe indeed, because everyone will be subjugated and opressed by it. If that's the case, why don't we just lock everybody in prison, that way there will be peace as well.
Did you know that Bertrand Russel was awarded a Nobel prize for championing humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought in his novels? Both are things absent from Islam. Again, he did not convert to Islam either. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk.
Mahatma Gandhi read the Qur'an daily, that's marvelous. Did he ever convert to Islam though? No, I didn't think so either. Apparently the Qur'an isn't that perfect and convincing at all if a great mind like Gandhi didn't convert to Islam after reading it's most holiest book, which supposedly came from God himself, daily.
Also, being the most influential man doesn't make you a saint. Hitler was very influential as well. Look at how he influenced thousands of Germans to follow his ideas. Look how he influenced history with his atrocious war. But I'll give you that Muhammad could indeed be the most influential man in history. He influenced billions of people to stop thinking rationally, attack innocent people in the name of God and follow ridicilous desert culture rules for over a thousand years.
Islam gave women voting rights? Since when? Islam has democracy in it? That's news to me. Women got inheritance rights before European women got it? That's great, but they still get only half of what a son gets. And luckily, European laws from back then weren't set in stone and unchangeable until the end of the world, unlike Islam's laws. And now European women DO have many rights that muslimas don't have along with having the same (few) rights that muslimas have, and now it's the muslimas being treated like chattels from a modern day perspective.
Nice try friend, but you're not really convincing or making strong arguments.
written by Citizen , September 19, 2009
First of all truth that 50,000 people convert to Islam , but who are those people. More than 95 % are from jail, yes when a man rape, or kill people he thinks that it was his need and are delusional and when they read Koran and when imam of jails tell them that its ok to rape or kill and muslims have special previlages by allah, they become happy and says yeah thats our God. They get justification of rape, pedophillia, killings etc in islam or muhammed's life and they accept it.
Few some 5% of the 50,000 also get converted but them again apostate and its clear that more than 75 % revert back.
Also there are many athiest, who can claim anything and show this shit to be good if you throw some millions of dollars. They will concentrate on mecca part of islam and hide all the rest.
Not only mahatma gandhi, but lot of people have read koran as being a leader of the movement he had to know how muslims can find common ground with hindus to remove British from India. He told that 'muslims are bully' and thus thought that 'appeasement' will work with muslims and tried in vain to appease muslims till end.
Similarly George Bush also sometimes praises muslims to appease, as like all politicians thinks to be 'politically correct'.
Even Churchill told that 'few muslims can show good quality, but islam as a whole is retrograde and barbaric religion'. He always though that by using muslims in India he can create chaos and not give independence.
Also do remember that if you take a sample of 100 non-muslims its always that 5-25 % of them will be bad. While out of 100 muslims around 1-2 % will be good. So you cant say that by comparing these 2% good muslims to 5 % bad non-muslims that muslims are good.
Luckily we have many countries, where we can get good sample.
Islam is a failed ideology by muhammed and he never taught them anything good after he captured medina.
Try to learn from other non-muslim countries. See Japan it was totally destrpyed in WW2, but became 2nd richest country only after utilizaing there mental and intelligent skillset.
Before Islam, middle east was one of the most important place and had very advanced civilization in persia and byzantine. Jews in medina etc have introduced creative agriculture and trade and was flourishing. But muhammed the barbarian destroyed the creative and made the more populous unintelligent arabs there to accept islam and made them ruffians.
Also remember after God only Satan is known to all. Muhammed will be most important and also hitler, stalin, lenin, mao and marx etc.
written by Anti Clot , September 20, 2009
written by NSC London , September 20, 2009
I love how they always trot out that stupid little Shaw quote instead of actually addressing valid criticisms of their disgusting psuedo religion. You'll hear this same argument from London mini-cab drivers and the like.
written by ciccio , September 20, 2009
The will learn the truth about Islam the hard way.
written by Timmy , September 20, 2009
written by prashanth , September 20, 2009
You cant include Marx with the likes of Stalin, Mao or Hitler. He was an economist and contributed a lot to economics. It is true that his communist manifesto failed. But there are quite a few other contributions which helped in building free economy. He was not a politician or a dictator. He just presented his view.
written by Manzikert , September 21, 2009
You people dont respect anybody else's beliefs or way of life and still Demand the same in non-Muslim Majority countries??? Where is your Religion of PEACE HERE???
You people dont grant any RIGHTS to nonmuslims living in Muslim COUNTRIES, where people can be Killed, Raped, Looted and discriminated against in all possible ways Just because they are not Muslim............... Is this what u call a Religion of Peace and Truth???
written by vbv , September 21, 2009
Islamism doesn't allow dissidence, it puts down any dissidence with a heavy hand,mostly death/torture. It is an insular,backward-looking ,closed cult that revels in its barbarianism. It does not allow free-thinking , it does not tolerate any criticism , it believes in conformity to its narrow arabian barbariabnism and not diversity of views and beliefs and non-beliefs. Such a closed society cannot prosper and human development will be abysmally very low like it is very evident in Pakistan,Bangladesh,Saudi Arabia,Iraq,Iran,Egypt,Somalia,Sudan,Libya,Nigeria,Syri
a,Palestine,etc. all wallowing in this filthy cult of islam suffering from ignorance,violence,misery and fear of mullahs and their radical cohorts of despicable marauders,rapists and looters.
If anythinmg , islam can only hasten the extinction of the human species in the process of evolution . And no sane person can thank these madcaps for that.
written by Walter Sieruk , September 21, 2009
written by Mladen Andrijasevic , September 21, 2009
"These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings."
Islam’s role in advancing progress? Let's look at the numbers:
There are two Muslim Nobel Prize laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics, they are:
Chemistry
Ahmed Zewail
Physics
Abdus Salam
There are 143 Jewish Nobel Prize laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics, they are:
Chemistry
Sidney Altman, Christian Anfinsen, Adolf von Baeyer,Paul Berg, Herbert Brown,Melvin Calvin,Aaron Ciechanover , Walter GilbertFritz Haber,Herbert Hauptman ,Alan Heeger, Avram Hershko , George de Hevesy, Roald Hoffmann Jerome Karle, Aaron Klug,Roger Kornberg , Harold Kroto, Rudolph Marcus , Henri Moissan, George Olah, Max Perutz, John Polanyi, Ilya Prigogine , Irwin Rose, William Stein , Otto Wallach, Richard Willstatter
Physics
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Zhores Alferov ,Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Georges Charpak , Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Leon Neil Cooper, Albert Einstein, Richard P. Feynman, James Franck , Jerome Isaac Friedman, Dennis Gabor , Murray Gell-Mann, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg , Donald Arthur Glaser, Sheldon Lee Glashow , Roy Glauber, David Gross ,Robert Hofstadter, Brian David Josephson, Lev Davidovich Landau, Leon Max Lederman, David Lee, Gabriel Lippmann, Albert Abraham Michelson , Ben Roy Mottelson, Douglas Osheroff , Wolfgang Pauli, Arno Allan Penzias, Martin Lewis Perl, David Politzer, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Frederick Reines, Burton Richter , Arthur Schawlow, Melvin Schwartz , Julian Schwinger, Emilio Segrè, Jack Steinberger, Otto Stern, Steven Weinberg , Eugene Wigner,
Medicine
Richard Axel, Julius Axelrod, David Baltimore,Robert Bárány, Baruj Benacerraf, Konrad Bloch, Baruch Blumberg , Sydney Brenner, Michael Brown , Ernst Chain, Stanley Cohen, Gerty Cori, Gerald Edelman, Paul Ehrlich ,Gertrude Elion,Joseph Erlanger , Andrew Fire Edmond H. Fischer, Robert Furchgott, Herbert Gasser, Alfred Gilman , Joseph Gold stein, Paul Greengard , Robert Horvitz, Francois Jacob, Eric Kandel, Bernard Katz, Arthur Kornberg , Hans Adolf Krebs, Karl Landsteiner , Joshua Lederberg, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Fritz Lipmann, Otto Loewi, Salvador Luria, Andre Lwoff, Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov , Otto Meyerhof, Cesar Milstein , Hermann Muller, Daniel Nathans, Marshall Nirenberg, Stanley Prusiner, Tadeus Reichstein , Martin Rodbell, Andrew Schally , Howard Temin, John Vane, Harold Varmus, Selman Waksman, George Wald , Otto Warburg, Rosalyn Yalow
Economics
George Akerlof, Kenneth Arrow , Robert J. Aumann ,Gary Becker , Robert Fogel , Milton Friedman, John Harsanyi , Leonid (Leo) Hurwicz ,Daniel Kahneman, Leonid Kantorovich , Lawrence Klein , Simon Kuznets , Wassily Leontief , Harry Markowitz , Eric Maskin ,Robert Merton , Merton Miller, Franco Modigliani , Roger Myerson, Herbert Simon , Paul Samuelson , Myron Scholes, Robert Solow, Joseph Stiglitz
Since there are 13 million Jews and 1.3 billion Muslims, then Jewish per capita contribution to the progress of humankind is (143 /13000000)/ (2/1300000000) = 71.5 * 100 = 7150 times that of Muslims.
written by AllanGreen , September 23, 2009
The UN report does not state that only 10,00 books have been translated into Arabic. It states "10,000".
Second flaw. The report is based on Arabs - you have other Muslims, like Turks, who produce more books than the entire Arab world combined.
It is dishonest, to speak of Islam, in exclusive relation to Arabs.
written by pmk , September 23, 2009
Turkey's secularism is the product of the efforts of Kemal Ataturk and that legacy of secularism and hope for the future is being destroyed, slowly but surely, under Erdogan and other Islamists. Ataturk's efforts to put Islam in second place are being discarded in favor of the primacy of Islam. Turkey was a vibrant place before Islam. Its Christian and its secular Islam heritage are both being erased bit by bit as Islamists gain control.
The author also made clear that Arabs comprise a minority of Muslims but there is no denying their hold on the doctrine of Islam. Non-Arabs are considered inferior, even if they are Muslim.
God gives superb intelligence to humans that they will learn through mistakes and create a harmonious society. Now Evil sees the harmony and will want to create viruses and chaos. God allows that as He know that human intelligence will ultimately understands this and virus will be self eliminated.
Just see the western world, they have power, they can decimate the muslim world within a month. Israel defeated the arab muslim army 60 times in number than them, but coolly defeated them in all wars and 6 days war was classic. Now muslims know that only way to defeat the highly intelligent israelis is through sneeking nuclear bomb and do a terrorist attack and kill them in this cowardly way.
The moment western world clearly aim for the goal to 'de-islamize' muslims the victory will be ours. Till they claim that problems in muslims is due to some other reasons not Islam, we will be loosing.
Identify the evil and victory is ours. Keep the eyes close , we are doomed.