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Here is an interesting article by a Pakistani muslim on the Topic of Why Muslims are so Backward and Powerless ? Interesting read but personally i think he only blames the education and fails to address the root cause why Islam contribute to overall low literacy rate in muslim countries ?
Muslims' failure ? Which is none other than their faith; Islam !

http://futurefastforward.com/cur ... h-saleem-17912.html
Dr Farrukh Saleem                                          
                Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:10       

The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Centre for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007 and an Islamabad-based freelance  columnist.

We Muslims must wonder why is it that only Muslim States like Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are being attacked by the Christian West.

Why do we get pushed around by them with the former President of the US George Bush calling it a crusade?

Why is it that Muslim States often depend on the West for survival, even Saudi Arabia, the epi-centre for Islamic fundamentalism (i.e. Wahabism) is dependent on American largesse for their survival?

While they preach Wahhabi Islam all over the world, they allow American bases within a few hundred kilometres from the Holiest Shrines of Islam.

There are an estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of the planet:  one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa, 44 million in Europe and six million in the Americas.

Every fifth human being is a Muslim.

For every single Hindu there are two Muslims,

For every Buddhist there are two Muslims and

For every Jew there are one hundred Muslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?

Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together have around 500 universities; one university for every three million Muslims.

The United States has 5,758 universities and India has 8,407.

In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an 'Academic Ranking of World Universities' and intriguingly, not one university from Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.

As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian world stands at nearly 90 per cent and 15 Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state with a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

Some 98 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world had completed primary school, while less than 50 per cent of the 'literates' in the Muslim world did the same.

Around 40 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world attended university while no more than two per cent of the 'literates' in the Muslim world did the same.

Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims.

The US has 4,000 scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 per million.

In the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time  researchers is 35,000 and there are only 50 technicians per one million Arabs. (in the Christian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million).

Furthermore, the Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development, while the Christian world spends around five per cent of its GDP.

Conclusion: The Muslim  world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge!

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles per million are two indicators of whether knowledge is being diffused in a society.

In Pakistan, there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis while the same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK, the number of book titles per million stands at 2,000 while the same in Egypt is 20.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge.

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports are an important indicator of knowledge application.

Pakistan's export of high technology products as a percentage of total exports stands at one per cent.

The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent; Kuwait, Morocco, and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent, while Singapore is at 58 per cent.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge.

Why are Muslims powerless?

.....Because we aren't producing knowledge,

.....Because we aren't diffusing knowledge,

.....Because we aren't applying knowledge.

And, the future belongs to knowledge-based societies.

Interestingly, the combined annual GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion.

America, just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12 trillion; China $8 trillion, Japan $3.8 trillion and Germany $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis).

Oil rich Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services (mostly oil) worth $500  billion; Spain alone produces goods and services worth over $1 trillion, Catholic Poland $489 billion and Buddhist Thailand $545 billion.

Muslim GDP as a percentage of world’s GDP is fast declining.

So, why are Muslims so powerless?

*Answer:  Lack of education.

All we do is shout Allah the whole day and blame everyone else for our multiple failures!



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 Author| Post time 5-5-2014 11:57 AM | Show all posts
Here's an even more interesting read by Harold Rhode of Gatestone Institute, entitled "  
Why Muslim Countries Will Always Remain Backward?

The Chinese, at behind-the-scenes conferences and discussions during the past few months, kept saying they were perplexed about the Muslim world’s — particularly the Arab world’s — inability to deal with the modern world. The Chinese and the Muslims, they repeated, had suffered the same humiliation and occupation by foreigners over the past two hundred years, but the Chinese and Muslim reactions to these experiences seem so completely different.
“We also suffered,” the Chinese said, “but now we control our destiny, and are doing everything we can to learn from these foreigners so that we can benefit from the modern world and ensure that we do not suffer this humiliation again. We Chinese ‘look to the future.’”
The Muslims, on the other hand, the Chinese stated, seem to have a different approach: Instead of looking to the future, they “are mired in the past,” more concerned about taking revenge against those foreigners whom they believe had humiliated and oppressed them.
It was because of this focus on the past, these Chinese intellectuals and leaders stated, that Arabs and Muslims were therefore unable to build societies which could participate in the modern world. “Revenge and victimhood,” these Chinese argued, could permanently cause “the Arabs and Muslim world” to “remain behind the West and Asia.”
These Chinese, many of whom had spent considerable time in the Muslim world and had gone to the trouble of becoming fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, asked why our Muslim friends are “obsessed” (their word) with portraying themselves as victims. Victimhood, they said, gets people nowhere; what was necessary was to remember the past but put it behind you so that you could deal with contemporary problems.
The Chinese are practical: although they harbor deep resentment to what other cultures — specifically the Japanese — have done to them, they say that if they indulge in self-pity, they will never be able to improve their lot in this world.
The Islamic culture, however — and Middle Eastern culture in general — is acutely concerned with righting perceived wrongs. The Shari’a, in fact, sees the role of the ruler as one who “commands good and eradicates evil” — meaning it is more important to “correct” past wrongs than to think about how to improve one’s situation. First one must correct the evil, and only then may one concentrate on how to have a better life. Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad have focused much of their time and money fighting their enemies rather than building their societies. The Americans, before they invaded Iraq, tried to negotiate with Saddam to find a way to stop him from developing weapons of mass destruction and intimidating his neighbors, but Saddam would not compromise. To do so, from his point of view, would have shamed him, a condition to be avoided at all costs. Bashar al-Assad now seems committed to doing the same. Fighting evil, in their eyes, is a never-ending battle: they cannot — nor can, for that matter, the Palestinians — put their past perceived wrongs behind them. They therefore cannot turn their attention to any future. Middle Eastern leaders might want to eliminate Israel, or hire engineers to build buildings, but anything more elaborate requires importing foreigners — mostly Westerners or Asians for building airports, highways, or whatever.
The Chinese perspective, to quote the former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kwan Yew, is that, despite “everything we do for our Muslims, they continue to remain at the bottom of society” — poor, backward and uneducated. ( Bernard Lewis, Notes on a Century…, pp. 245-246).
Could it be, however, that the Chinese suffering from a similar problem, guaranteeing that they too could have difficulties competing with the Western world when it comes to innovation?
In Chinese culture, one cannot question elders or people in position of authority about how and why they have come to a conclusion. In the West, we are encouraged to respect knowledge and position, but we are also encouraged to ask people how they have reached their conclusions. The Chinese are encouraged not to do so — both indirectly, by teaching their children from an early age blindly to accept authority.
Here, the Chinese and the Muslims share the same view — so that neither culture enables the abilities of its people that could help to invent new products. The Chinese and some non-oil producing Muslim countries can copy Western inventions; the oil-rich countries import from the West whatever they need.
Because the Chinese direct their energy towards the future, and rarely focus on past grievances, their approach possibly offers more hope for a better life, in which their people’s standard of living increases, and China — from their point of view — takes what they regard as its rightful place on the world stage.


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Post time 5-5-2014 12:39 PM | Show all posts
there's several reasons why muslims are powerless and backward and this is just an individual opinion from me from my observation:

1. In Christian, they are nurtured to anti Islam, and Islam is the opposite. this is why Christian always find the way to eliminate Muslims and threatening them so they are always on top.

2. Muslims are desperate and busy on praying to Allah all day. They are busy to remember Allah. Too many things that are sin and against Islam and that preventing them to achieve the progression of advancement.

3. Atheists (especially the Dajjal followers) hates Muslims, because they believe that Muslims will stop them to achieve their goals for new world order and such.

4. So many advancements are against Islam (real Islam), for example, Internet is a bad thing in Islam. tall buildings are the sign of the doomsday. Television is also bad thing and anything related about technology are the bad things. So, no technology: backward and powerless,  that's explains everything.

5. Christian and atheists would like to do everything to drop Muslims and Islam.

6. Being backward or pwerless is against Islam, but Muslims never ever able to achieve advancement because lot of things are against Islam.
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Post time 5-5-2014 03:44 PM | Show all posts
My answer might be a rare view, but at the same time might offend many people, so my apology in advance.

Muslim has been backward and powerless because they already left Qur'an, they left God's guidance.

- Qur'an encourage Muslim to THINK, but they follow other book who teach them to just FOLLOW/ACCEPT.
- Qur'an encourage Muslim to explore SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, but they follow other book who AGAINST the science and exploration of knowledge
- Qur'an command Muslim to READ ('Iqra' is the first word), but Muslim follow other book who discourage readings qur'an, they just told to 'mengaji' but dont try to study and interpret.
in fact at one time before, Muslim not allowed to Print books because it was haram as it is bid'ah according to their Imam.
- Qur'an allow Muslim to be CREATIVE, music, movies, art etc are not prohibited as long as good ones, but Muslim follow other books who prohibit music, movies, even nowadays not allow to take photographs.
- Many other things that Muslim prohibited WITHOUT THEY KNOW that actually they are against the QUR'AN, they thought all these are from Qur'an, but it is not.

Remember during prophet Muhammad era until few hundred years later, Muslim follow only Qur'an, and it was the GOLDEN ERA of Islam be in sciences, knowledges, power and culture. Thats the proof.

Once they slided back to use dogmas and traditions, they become powerless again, that is Muslim today.

And worst, they can't accept criticism, it is easier to blame others, self correction is VERY RARE. And I believe my post will be criticized, I have no problem at all, but at least try think about my points above, maybe there is some truth in it?


Prophet Muhammaed himself will tell in the last day that Muslim already left Qur'an. [25:30] That message is for us, his ummat today. THINK....
Thats another hard evidence.


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kid posted on 5-5-2014 03:44 PM
My answer might be a rare view, but at the same time might offend many people, so my apology in adva ...

Hey junior, your answer is nothing new to me, in fact it sounds very much like you just take a page out of our very own local U's Islamic civilization course in which poor non-muslim students are forced to attend and bombarded with twisted and eulogised Islamic past.

Golden Era of Islam ??? Bingo ! Another typical muslims' fatal habit of miring in the past. Btw, anybody who study history know that in that era, muslims learned from the great civilization before them, the great Greco-Roman and therefore it is nothing to brag about, just like other great civilization in human history.

One interesting point to note is that Islam, unlike other faith, when their believers are more literate, their command of knowledge and overall civilization will become more backward rather than moving forward. This can easily testify by the fact the literacy rate during so called Golden Era of Islam was much lower than modern era Islamic world.

Ever wonder why there are more and more islamic terrorists nowadays than many many past centuries combined ???
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abcd posted on 5-5-2014 12:39 PM
there's several reasons why muslims are powerless and backward and this is just an individual opinio ...

Typical loser answer from a typical muslim....the most laughable answer you gave is Christians are nurtured to hate muslim...???? Do you know your own koran ?? How many hate verses against Christians and Jews in koran ? Countless ! Can you find any hate verses against muslims in Bible and Torah ??? None !
Not to mention the hatred filled summons against non-muslims in most mosques around the world.

Are you living in your own narrow delusional world or you just simply ignoring the facts around you. You are truely an embodiment of pathetic muslims around the world.

Ever wonder why all sound minded and benign progressive people loath islam like plaque ?

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Post time 6-5-2014 12:51 AM | Show all posts
wkk5159 posted on 5-5-2014 09:31 PM
Hey junior, your answer is nothing new to me, in fact it sounds very much like you just take a pag ...

Oooppss... senior is here..

Seems you have concluded everything and proud with it, so why further discussion?

Ciao... I'm out of here.


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Post time 6-5-2014 08:33 AM | Show all posts
by wkk5159

Every fifth human being is a Muslim.

For every single Hindu there are two Muslims,

For every Buddhist there are two Muslims and

For every Jew there are one hundred Muslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?


Answer :- Because it is QUALITY NOT QUANTITY which determines the value of a society (and its members).

Islam teaches Muslims (especially women) to give birth to a lot of children - because Islam is a desert-based religion where survival of a person's offspring is limited (due to the limitations in the natural resources). A man with many children will have better chance of having at least one or two children alive to reach adulthood and in return take care of him at his old age.

A society which has a lot of male will provide a large number of workforce and military force in case of warfare and security. In a desert society, Arts, Knowledge and culture is SECOND only to the main concern - water, food and security. Therefore, it is vital to have a lot of children - regardless of how they live and what quality they are in.

But today, we don't live in such society. Having dozens of children are a curse - especially to a poor family. The importance in the society is not water, food and security BUT knowledge and wealth. Having dozens of children with no way to feed them properly, educate them properly or even cloth them properly will only allow these children to grow up as gangsters, criminals and hoodlums. They become mentally weak - with little and no knowledge of the World. They become useless to the World and their society. That is what happening to Muslim society here and World wide.

They are large in quantity but POOR in quality.
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Post time 6-5-2014 08:40 AM | Show all posts
by abcd

4. So many advancements are against Islam (real Islam), for example, Internet is a bad thing in Islam. tall buildings are the sign of the doomsday. Television is also bad thing and anything related about technology are the bad things. So, no technology: backward and powerless,  that's explains everything.


In 13th century, Christians used to say the same thing - that everything that is worldly (knowledge) is bad. Then they changed their mind. Do you know WHY they changed their mind?

Because (True) God send to them the Black Death which in 4-5 years time - had killed 2/3 of Europe's population. So, KEEP THAT ATTITUDE, MUSLIMS and I will see if I can arrange with (My) God to have Him send you another plaque.
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Post time 6-5-2014 10:39 AM | Show all posts
wkk5159 posted on 5-5-2014 10:43 PM
Typical loser answer from a typical muslim....the most laughable answer you gave is Christians are ...

Sorry sir, it seems like you have low IQ just like other humans in general. Person like you won't understand it. debate for self satisfication, and truth is a big pain. The difference of opinion is a rude. Being wrong is embarrassing and people of the opposite opinion will disrespect on you, so no matter how true they are, you still have to defense your opinion no matter what to avoid being embarrassed. Isn't? That mean, you're not ready yet to seek for the truth. open-minded and highly matured are required to seek the truth. of course you would say no.

its not my match to debate such low IQ person. anyway, good bye.
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abcd posted on 6-5-2014 10:39 AM
Sorry sir, it seems like you have low IQ just like other humans in general. Person like you won't  ...

Haha ! a moronic follower of satanic faith like you dare to judge the intelligent quotient of others ? How disgraceful !

You just again expose the loser muslim attitute which further cement the status of your faith as the most retrograde religion in the world which can't tolerate slight critiscms...

Run, run with your tail between your legs and you know very well that you have no substantial points to put forward.

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Post time 6-5-2014 07:44 PM | Show all posts
abcd posted on 6-5-2014 10:39 AM
Sorry sir, it seems like you have low IQ just like other humans in general. Person like you won't  ...


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moronic follower of satanic faith like you dare to judge the intelligent quotient of others ? How disgraceful !......

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Post time 7-5-2014 03:43 PM | Show all posts
Oi ... you people call this crap intellectual discussion kah? You (wkk5159) bark at the kid and the kid bark back. Both says useless things which have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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You just morphed yourself into canine by barking rabidly....

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Post time 8-5-2014 09:23 AM | Show all posts
wkk5159 posted on 7-5-2014 11:48 PM
You just morphed yourself into canine by barking rabidly....

What to do? When trying to split two fighting canine, one must bark like one as well. Only then those two canines will listen.

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Post time 9-5-2014 12:29 PM | Show all posts
Sephiroth posted on 7-5-2014 03:43 PM
Oi ... you people call this crap intellectual discussion kah? You (wkk5159) bark at the kid and the  ...

@Sephiroth

I didn't bark, nor pushed my ideas, just stated my opinion you can see there.
The other party then went wild, seems he can't accept views that difference than him.

Then let's leave him there barking alone, that the intelligence thing to do.
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kid posted on 9-5-2014 12:29 PM
@Sephiroth

I didn't bark, nor pushed my ideas, just stated my opinion you can see there.

Yes, that does seems to be most intelligent thing to do. Entertaining someone who refuses to listen is a waste of time.
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 Author| Post time 12-5-2014 04:22 PM | Show all posts
An imbecilic cum delusional muslim and his partner in crime, in this case a Hindu, hug and weep because they don't have any substantial point to put forward.....
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wkk5159 posted on 12-5-2014 04:22 PM
An imbecilic cum delusional muslim and his partner in crime, in this case a Hindu, hug and weep beca ...

Perhaps you should come back when you have become civilised, IF you are looking for a civlized conversation.
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