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o Literacy in the Christian World 90%
o Literacy in the Muslim World 40%
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So basically what we are seeing is of our own making. Muslims are beggars and will forever be dominated by the west. In this faujhistorian is right. We should look more critically at what it is that we have done that is useful to the world at large.
Thanks for a adding my name in the "acceptable" commentators. Thank you.
Coming back to the topic,
With due respect, even though statistics "sound" right, they are misleading because they take only one control variable aka religion and build an argument.
However in human development, there are multiple "control" variables that drive progress and prosperity.
One such control variable predates Christianity, and definitely Islam.
Islam is just 1400+ years old
while Christianity is 2000+ yeas old
Still these periods are small slice of human history.
So if Islam or Christianity are not the control variables or at least not the main one, then you may ask, what is (or what are)?
Well my friend the biggest control variable is "local culture".
If the culture is enlightened, the region progresses.
If the culture is primitive, tribal, the region goes down the toilet.
If you try to make similar observations, you will see the following
1. African and South American regions are relatively tribal, so they are hell holes of poverty even when they are Christians
2. BIMARU states in India are relatively tribal, so they are hell holes of poverty and backwardness even when they are Hindus/Indians
the same thing is true about Muslim dominated regions.
Regions that are more tribal, are backwards. The regions that are relatively civilized are progressing.
Afghanistan and Somalia and Yemen etc. are all 99% tribal and thus they are backwards $hit holes.
Iran, Malaysia, Turkey are relatively less tribal, so the are much better on development indices.
Gulf Arabs have tried to get rid of tribal Beduin culture, so they are progressing, but many other Arab countries have failed to do so and that's why they are doing badly on development indices.
BDesh has tried very hard to rid itself from tribal culture, so they are progressing better.
Pakistan was on path to development and prosperity back in 60s, and then Arabn and Irani And Afghanistani inspired barbarism, and tribalism came over us, and we started our steap slide down the hell hole of lawlessness and poverty and other tribal diseases.
So I hope by reviewing these examples, you all can see that triablism takes you down, while civilized behavior improves your lot.
What happened in the last 40 years is that Islam has been hijacked by tribal Mullahs and Ayatullahs, and thus anyone following such regressive- Islam (which in reality is barbaric tribalism) is on path of death and destruction.
Therefore please focus on culture and not religion. And we all will figure how to pull up 200 million strong massive and HUGE country like Pakistan, and put it on path of progress and development.
peace