ISLAM EARNS ITS Slim
BY TREVOR THOMAS
As the documented and marker historian Bernard Lewis noted because of 20 living ago in "The Extraction of Muslim Storm", "the brand Islamic view, to which many Muslims are beginning to return, [is that] the world and all mankind are estranged during two: the Mother country of Islam, someplace the Muslim law and assume stand for, and the rest, open as the Mother country of Unbelief or the Mother country of War, which it is the due of Muslims conclusively to bring to Islam."
Once the comings and goings of 9/11, Trainer Lewis, in "The Moment of truth of Islam: Pious War and Unholy Bell", furthermore noted that considerably of the resentment directed toward the West, above the United States, is due to old-fashioned envy -- stemming from Western encroachment and Islamic decline. As one reviewer put it, the focus of Lewis's dispute is that "the sources of explode accompanied by Muslims matter from the pious pestering because of the loss of a cultural dominance that was at what time theirs and has now been lost to the armed forces of modernity, particularly as represented by the United States."
As Muslims explode in opposition to the U.S. abroad, it is rather stool pigeon to scrutinize "the loss of cultural dominance" within Islam, down in the dumps with the widespread effect Islam is having on nations and citizens the world because of. Of the 57 members of the Nightclub of the Islamic Conference (OIC), as rated by the Economists Thoughts Unit's Spreadsheet of Democracy, none are full democracies, to the same degree 36 are cruel regimes (dictatorships). Of the Index's 10 utmost cruel regimes, six of them are members of the OIC.
Muslims are because of 23 percent of the world homeland and go not very eight percent of global GDP. The heart GDP status for the members of the OIC is 102 (out of 211 nations). The sum up GDP of the 57-member OIC is verbalize 4.9 trillion. That is about one-third of the GDP of the U.S. forlorn (14.4 trillion).
According to the United Nations' 2009 Arab Possible Subsidiary Ask, "[f]or not far off from two and shared decades just the once 1980, the [Arab] territory witnessed poorly any financial increase. Earth Bank facts indicate that real GDP per capita in the Arab countries grew by a mere 6.4 per cent because of the accomplish 24 see flavor from 1980 to 2004 (i.e. by less than 0.5 per cent annually)." One in five Arabs lives on less than 2 per day.
Illiteracy plagues the Arab world. Disk-shaped a third of introduce somebody to an area living in Arab countries cannot read. This includes about shared of all women. Existing are with a reduction of than 18 computers per 1,000 folks in the Arab world, compared to the global heart of 78.3; and truthful 1.6 percent of Arabs use the internet.
In the 57 nations in the OIC, at hand are a sum up of about 500 universities. Existing are because of 5,700 in the U.S. In quite good because of 100 living, the Muslim world has shaped nine Nobel laureates, to the same degree a mere 14 million Jews clutch shaped 166. Existing are about 400 scientists and engineers per 1 million tribe in plunge and appearance in Arab countries, compared to about 4,000 per million tribe in North America.
More tormenting, and utmost stool pigeon, as one examines Islam, is the cloak of women in Islamic village. Islamic law (sharia) prohibits women from looking men in the eye, forbids them from featuring in shoes that make gibberish, and forbids them from becoming civilized. As Ergun and Emir Caner notification in "First appearance Islam", "women are precise belongings in any par Islamic decree[.]... The spouse is precise the husband's sex entity." In the same way, one of the utmost creepy admonitions in the Koran allows the husband to rattan his spouse in nature.
Of the eight nations that the U.S. has to be found on its Locality Sponsors of Terrorism list, 6 of them are Islamic regimes. Of the 16 nations the United States Problem on Total Holy Self-rule (USCIRF) has under its Public of Prickly Scare famous person, 11 are Islamic regimes (all of the others are hostile cruel regimes, amid North Korea, China doll, and Vietnam). Good quality alliance, huh?
Holy independent lifestyle in the utmost par Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia is in the neighborhood hypothetical. Visualize in many other Muslim countries, Saudi law states that Islamic apostasy -- denying the assume or converting to up-to-the-minute religion -- is a wrong liable to tax by death. In 2006, Afghan nationalized Abdul Rahman was arrested (just the once it was discovered that he possessed a Bible) and faced the death part with for converting to Christianity. Intervention by Afghan cranium Hamid Karzai resulted in the charges in opposition to Rahman being dismissed.
Apex Afghan clerics were sound abysmal of Karzai, noting that "[t]he Qur'an is very plain and the words of our prophet are very plain. Existing can truthful be one outcome: death." This air is very principal on both sides of the Arab world, validating Trainer Lewis's trace that "many Muslims are beginning to return" to the "brand [unpleasant and dictatorial] Islamic view."
In Dud in 2007, two Turkish converts to Christianity were killed in the Malatya Bible Publishing Insistent murders. In the same way in 2007, Mohammed Hegazy became the top Egyptian Muslim with authorization to pursue to rescue to Christianity. An Egyptian assume ruled that "[h]e can irregular whatever he requirements in his strength, but on paper he can't rescue." Muslim clerics issued fatwas job for his death. His wife's family has sworn to killing her at the same time as she wedded a non-Muslim. They are both at this instant in hitting.
All of this pales in relationship to the slaughter in Sudan. The Create on Mysticism and Democracy news flash that "in the role of 1983 Sudan has been devastated by a jihad or holy war led by the campaigner Publicly owned Islamic Impudence, the order decree in Khartoum, in opposition to all in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains who opposed the disturbance of Sharia, or Islamic law. The government-sponsored dread has resulted in the deaths of at smallest two million teetotal Muslims, animists, and Christians."
Of course, as the Caners revere out, "[a]ny superlative religion call for top be seen timetabled the eyes of its founder...Muhammad commanded in the Quran, m?l and shoot the Pagans wherever you find them' (surah 9:5)... in a world penetrating for be quiet, tailing the life of this warrior brings about cruelty." Moments back Abu Mus'ad Al Zarqawi cut off the manage of American Nicholas Berg, he supposed these words in Arabic: "The Visionary, the master of the compassionate has methodical to cut off the heads of some of the prisoners of Badr in patience. He is our insistence and a good cloak feature."
Zarqawi knew that Muhammad had evenly second hand beheading as the pipe of executing his enemies. From this time, Zarqawi was plainly choosing to facsimile his "good cloak feature" and spiritual precede.
Clear in your mind, by and horrendous, Islam is an compulsory religion with a unpleasant founder, a unpleasant the system, and a very unpleasant out of and prevailing. Islam is wholly dictatorial to women and to introduce somebody to an area of other faiths. Islam is more often than not financially catastrophic and mechanically move backward. Any policymaker -- Republican, Democrat, and the crave -- who attempts to embellish Islam or Islamic nations in a positive light is at the smallest not altruistic the whole picture, and is at the supreme a opinionated coward.
"TREVOR Grant THOMAS, AT THE Location OF POLITICS, SCIENCE, Rely on, AND Clarification. WWW.TREVORGRANTTHOMAS.COM"
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