[driftless2]

You have in the middle east millions of violent, ignorant people many of whom are made so by their religion. They're not intelligent to keep up with the civilized world, but they're canny enough to know how to kill people and destroy culture. They're too busy hating other peoples and thinking of ways to slaughter their enemies (virtually everybody else) in large numbers instead of thinking about contributing something worthwhile to the world. They contribute next to nothing in the areas of science, technology, and medicine.

When they immigrate to civilized countries, many of them take their backwardness and violence with them and refuse to assimilate. Their religious leaders are always threatening to have their religion take over the world and either enslave non-believers or kill them.

What to do. We'll see if this latest unrest in Egypt leads to a real semi-democratic government or just more of the same. Most likely more of the same. (Or Morsi of the same). There are some experiments going on (Iraq, Egypt) that might foretell the future of these peoples and if they'll be able to adapt to modernity and throw off their barbarity. If they can't, at some point the civilized countries of the world might have to think of a way to permanently segregate these people from the rest of the world.

[USAF80]

They contribute next to nothing in the areas of science, technology, and medicine.

They will claim they invented math. The arabs before Big Moh were actually sucessful traders. They were semi-peaceful and got along well with their trade partners. When Moh took over that all changed. Gotta keep the masses illiterate so you can control them.