Posted on 05/28/2018 6:13:03 AM PDT by C19fan
The passing of Bernard Lewis last week at the age of 101 recalls to mind perhaps his most famous book title about the Muslim world, What Went Wrong? But maybe a successor of sorts has been found in Duke University economist Timur Kuran, who has a long article forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature that paints a pretty bleak picture of the economic and social structure of Islamic nations. Just check out the abstract of the article, which is bland in language but harsh in its conclusions:
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Yes, it is very illogical to us on the Right. But there is a certain logic in play here. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” The reality is that modern day Liberalism sees Conservatism with its Judeo Christian worldview as more dangerous than radical Islam. Therefore they attack us and our institutions while ignoring the atrocities of Islam. Thus the talk by Hillary of “Deplorables”. We are the real enemies. The Left needs only to fight on one front: the Right. We on the Right have to fight on two fronts: against the assaults of the Left as well as the assaults of Islam.
Mad Mo is very jealous and thus outlaws any competitive views or information.
Islam is a political ideology with religious overtones. Nowhere in Islam or the Koran is there the pursuit of a higher purpose. The main objective of Islam is to force everyone else to convert to Islam or die. There is no provision anywhere in the doctrine for change which traps the Muslim world in the 7th century. That and an average IQ of 81 is why there are no Muslim geniuses discovering cures for diseases, no Muslim countries producing mass industrial goods, no Muslim opera singers, no famous Muslim artists, no Muslim champion chess players, no culinary geniuses or award winning authors.
It’s Islam.
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science
Perhaps a lack of concern about truth and an embrace of deception as a policy has something to do with it.
That's a great reason to make non-petroleum energy sources a much higher priority. I'd like to see oil drop to an obscure resource that is used for a few special purposes but in no way central to any developed country's economy. The amusing thing is the globalist left would support that goal.
Everything Bernard Lewis wrote should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the Islamic world and what’s going on today.
Uh; cavemen mentality. Uh; Islam. Pardon me for repeating myself.
With the absence of complete (husband-wife) family units and promiscuous hookups producing children (70% + Blacks being born out-of-wedlock) there is most likely rampant incest and inbreeding going on among such populations.
I spent two semesters as a visiting professor in the engineering school at Marmara University in Istanbul. The Turkish students I taught, both men and women, were fully on a par with the students I taught in American universities. If there’s a problem,it isn’t with the people themselves. It’s with the system they live in.
Joe, I agree with you. I have very good Egyptian Muslim friends (still in Egypt) who are among the best and most intelligent people you’ll ever meet. They hate the radical nut-jobs as much if not more than anyone.
For detailed analysis, simply read Sir Winston Churchill's prescient assessment of "Islam". It will tell you everything you need to know.
You will be assaulted, arrested, tried, found guilty, thrown into a hell-hole Turkish prison and hanged.
Like I said; "civilized" ...not!
Those areas are backward because they’re authoritarian and they don’t value education instead mistaking memorizing some lines in a 7th century tome as education. This is of course completely useless and of no practical value. There is no render unto Caeser in Islam. There is no separation between religion and government, law or business.
As if all of that were not enough, Islam was spread by the sword and is by its nature, imperialistic. This does not equip muslims to deal with the rest of the world on a productive basis. Other people’s and religions can bump along without problems but whenever Islam comes into contact with any other culture, there is violence. Be it North Africa or India/Burma or in the Caucasus region or in Europe or China or as far afield as the Philippines, wherever there is Islam there is violence. The problem is not everybody else. Its obviously a problem with Islam.
Abstract. This essay critically evaluates the analytic literature concerned with causal connections between Islam and economic performance. It focuses on works since 1997, when this literature was last surveyed. Among the findings are the following: Ramadan fasting by pregnant women harms prenatal development; Islamic charities mainly benefit the middle class; Islam affects educational outcomes less through Islamic schooling than through structural factors that handicap learning as a whole; Islamic finance hardly affects Muslim financial behavior; and low generalized trust depresses Muslim trade. The last feature reflects the Muslim world’s delay in transitioning from personal to impersonal exchange. The delay resulted from the persistent simplicity of the private enterprises formed under Islamic law. Weak property rights reinforced the private sector’s stagnation by driving capital out of commerce and into rigid waqfs. Waqfs limited economic development through their inflexibility and democratization by restraining the development of civil society. Parts of the Muslim world conquered by Arab armies are especially undemocratic, which suggests that early Islamic institutions, including slave-based armies, were particularly critical to the persistence of authoritarian patterns of governance. States have contributed themselves to the persistence of authoritarianism by treating Islam as an instrument of governance. As the world started to industrialize, non-Muslim subjects of Muslim-governed states pulled ahead of their Muslim neighbors by exercising the choice of law they enjoyed under Islamic law in favor of a Western legal system.
We can speculate all day long. I'd humbly suggest that dumping a fantastic amount of oil money into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists over half a century is probably the reason the problem persists. These are Arab nationalists as well and have no particular interest in returning to the Ottoman days when the Turks were in charge. Sorry, Mr. Erdogan. And, worse, we have the two principal wings of Islam vying for control of a violent revolutionary movement with state-level resources at their disposal. The good news is that they're both going broke, the bad news is that it's taking a while.
Intellectual dressing on a primitive, guttural, hate-filled, murderous code.
Consider that Islam functions as a sort of piracy or on a Viking model. Can’t get out of your dark shit stained caves? Well, Mohammed has an answer. Go steal shit from other civilizations and call it a religion. How it functioned at all is a mystery, except that Islam was punctuated by some periods where the rulers returned to some sanity for a time. Raiding the Mediterranean for supplies and slaves does wonders as well.
The future is not bright.
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