A violent religion of conquest
Abject poverty
Blood feuds and rituals
Vendettas
Illiteracy
Intolerance
Bigotry
Deceit
Mayhem
Honor killings
Murder
Slavery
Should I go on? There's more...
No need to to - you've hit all of the high points of Arab "accomplishments" for the past 14 or so centuries.
As Paul Harvey had been known to say, the backward, tribal, Muslim Ottoman/Arab is neither ready for nor capable of a stable, free, elected government. The terrorist attackers of September 11th used that which their culture could never have invented to destroy that which their culture could never have built. The Iraqis, for example, have recently received a gift of self-determination that they did not really want and will not be able to properly care for.
“Innovative initiatives” in Slam-land have the life expectancy of a divorced guy’s houseplants.