[white trash redneck]

I think that the author was using figures averaged over the 22 Arab countries, while you were showing figures from Saudi Arabia, which among the wealthiest of those.

[America's Resolve]

They won't be able to do anything about it. The Koran ties them with ties that bind - tightly!

Everything Islam has gotten in the past has been through butchery and theft. It's easy to build this "wonderful" empire that they had when it was built on the sweat of others who had to pay that despicable jyziat tax that non-muslims have to pay or be tortured and killed.

If it wasn't for western technology and the luck to be sitting on a sea of oil, they'd still be riding camels and living in tents. Islam didn't advance in 1400 years and I suspect it would have taken tens of thousands of years to put a man on the moon, if ever.

[gcraig]

Great point. We need to keep focused on the facts.

[Andy from Beaverton]

One of the points I was trying to make is he is trying to compare apples to oranges. He compares the total GNP (Gross National Product) to just the oil revenue of all the Arab countries combined. Saudi Arabia has a GDP 3 times the size of it oil revenues. Do you get my point? I only included the chart because it is interesting.