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Why can't the Islamic world catch up with the modern world?

Goshin said:
As I understand it, it goes something like this:

1. Islam and those who follow it are the ultimate good and superior to all others, and this cannot be questioned.
2. The West is more prosperous and has much better technology and greater influence in the world.
3. Since 2 cannot be the result of the West being superior in religion, culture, ideology or etc, it must be that the West is keeping the Islamic/Arabic world down by force and conspiracy and manipulation, in effect "stealing the greatness that rightfully belongs to Islam and Islamic cultures."

Therefore the West must be destroyed to make way for Islam to take on the greatness that is its natural due.



Add in all those cultural and religious attitudes I mentioned above and it become hard to see a peaceful way of resolving things. I wish it were otherwise.
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Yes, that and national religions that support the religion through peer pressure.
 
joG said:
I don't think it's that simple. One doesn't need to be an atheist bigot that destroys bakers following there creed to be part of a dynamic society. The contrary is more the case. There is a quite respected theory that some religions are the reason for some societies' spectacular relative success. To get a hold of this kind of thing you have to go to the behavioral interaction levels of the culture/society, I think.
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Yes, there are people who credit religion with the success of Western society. Those are the same kind of people who credit hurricanes with being divine judgement, you know, morons.
 
D_NATURED said:
Yes, there are people who credit religion with the success of Western society. Those are the same kind of people who credit hurricanes with being divine judgement, you know, morons.
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These are largely people who don't know the difference between correlation and causation.
 
Cephus said:
These are largely people who don't know the difference between correlation and causation.
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Or, their ass and a hole in the ground. You pick.
 
aurelius87 said:
East Asians in particular were obssessed with the idea of catching up with the West and in a sense they did it. As a result, South Korea and Japan are far wealthier and prosperous than most European countries except for UK, France or Germany (Well, Japan is wealthier than Germany or France, I have to admit).
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Just FYI, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Andorra, and Liechtenstein all have higher per capita GDP than South Korea and Japan.

I do wish people would do a bit of homework before posting.
 
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