I don't believe us US citizens can tie ourselves to Muslims overseas.
Yes, we can since after all we are from the same breed as them.
Growing up in America doesnt change our ethnic origins or our heritage and cultural bond with the mother country.
A Chinese doesnt become Arab if he's born and raised in Arabia. Neither does a Black become Korean.
We grow up in a different system that is functional and for most part tackles corruption, mis-management and has overall consensus. The social and economic system here is well organized and advanced as US became industrial early on and all this experience brought us to almost perfected system today(With exception to high income tax
).
Yes. Indeed. But does it ever occur to us Muslims why exactly this system is functional, well organized, and able to effectively tackle corruption, mismanagement and other social ills so prevalent within our own countries??
Perhaps because it was founded by Europeans? Muslims themselves are incapable of establishing such a highly advanced society.
Muslims, whether Arabs or Indonesians or Pakistanis, can never establish a system so advanced and complex because most of us are genetically incapable of doing so.
EDIT: Think about it. Entire Muslim world has more resources and manpower then Europe, America, China, Japan, Korea, and Australia combined yet our societies are so primitive and backwards in comparison and our industrial, technological and scientific output is close to none. A small country like Sweden contributes more than we do.
Muslims overseas have corruption that is sickening. And the way to solve is different for every country. And I totally agree we have such hypocrites in wrondoers overseas. But I don't agree that we should tie ourselves to them, we aren't one entity contrary to what some people think. We visit our national origin and have ties but it doesn't extend elsewhere in Muslim world, at least for now.
For some Muslimmajority nations, tackling corruption requires either resurgent of religion, secularism, use of force, revolution, etc....It is all different. For example for Arabs, we were secular in the 40's to 70's and corruption always existed in Arab world. So some people in Arab world believe religion is solution, of course the corrupt can exploit religion as well to compete with religious opposition. So now Arab world is going through a experience that no one will forget. Everyone is getting affected by everyone, one step won't cut it anymore and it is reuiring Arab nations to shift alliances almost every year. Over time they will realize their political decisions were counterproductive. For Asia it may be different and I'm not well informed enough. But we will have hypocrites in our society for a long period, it won't go until there is some serious crisis that divides people into clear camps. Where we will have limited choices.
I agree. But once again, this is where the corruption comes into play.
Why is it that almost every political faction claiming to be the final salvation for the common people, once in power, ends up screwing them over and doing them dirty the same way as its predecessor who behaved no differently when they held the throne??
Does it not make you wonder that perhaps the people from our part of the world are genetically more prone to corruption and power grabbing then lets say compared to Koreans or Japanese or the Swedes or the Swiss or the Germans or the Australians, etc......
Now of course, that isnt to say that all Muslims are prone to corruption by nature. Sure there are honest and productive and industrious elements within Muslim countries but they are in the minority and they can never put into use their talent for the benefit of their native country solely due to the fact that the system they live in is corrupt to the core and thus wont enable them to rise to power.
EDIT: Fact is, we can change our ideologies from religious to secularism to whatever else we can get our hands on, but we can never change our genetical traits, and corruption is one of them.