The 97% references about war might be to tell Muslims that they should not be cowards when it comes to fight in the name of Allah. How can you stastically prove that Iron-57 does not exist?
This is nice but still an old and stolen concept from non muslim sources. Why did the last prophet have to steal from the prophets that came before him ?
Islam orders Muslims to search knowledge. The rest is upto the Muslims. Islam and Muslim can be different!
The Japanese culture is today more advanced than the Muslim culture and they did it without the Koran. How do you explain this ?
What about wisdom? Fortunately many muslims don't follow islam as it is taught, but it is only a matter of time when the radicals take over control. Even now in Pakistan, the govt agreed to sharia law.
Which Muslim nations can compare to western countries ? Remember, the world is wrong. The Muslims have the latest and greatest prophet and most of them still can't figure out how to teach their own people how to read and write.
That's why western countries should promote Islam in more countries ... this will protect us economically ... a people that can't read or think is good for us.
No it isn't - less intelligent and capable workforces destroy the capital advantages we could gain from their manufacturing firms and processes. The Ideology of it with the extreme elements is what needs to be effectively combated.
You want the Muslims to imitate the Japanese ? It's better they stick to the latest and greatest prophet.
You said other countries, inferring that we should spread it to areas that are not already infiltrated with it. Instead of spreading the infection the infection must be stopped. Radicalism exists in every ideology and thus it will always exist - however the danger levels of a radical element only increase as more and more become radicalized. Economically it is better to have smarter people employed because they are more capable of production of quality goods, thereby increasing the worth and value we could make off of subsidiaries in their respective countries. The Philippines, China, Asia major and minor, Africa, all of these regions hold an economic potential worth trillions to the world and to any country in free trade capitalist societies. To limit these by attempting to spread an ideological radicalism that would in essence demean the value of education and decrease an educated workforce would cost us more in the long run.
You are forgetting that a population that can't think can't protect their resources ... the world has enough productive capacity ... America could always use more resources.
So then - you like Imperialism? Is that what you want our country to become? Just what everyone accuses us of being?
Look at another Miracle of the Koran ... The Arab world’s urbanization has only created a stagnant pool of urban poor. As the London Economist summarized in the United Nations Arab Development Report for 2002: One in five Arabs still live on less than $2 a day. And over the past 20 years growth in income per head, at an annual rate of .5%, was lower than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. At this rate, says the report, it will take the average Arab 140 years to double his income, a target that some regions are set to reach in less than 10 years. Stagnant growth, together with a fast-rising population, means vanishing jobs. About 12 million people, or 15% of the labor force, are already unemployed, and on present trends the number could rise to 25 million by 2010. [4] Excluding Indonesia, the Muslim’s world literacy rate stands at only 53%, against 81% for China; Arab literacy is only 50% It is delusional to believe that the Arab world, which now exports (net of oil) as much as Finland, might come to compete with China, India and the rest of Asia in the global market for goods and services. ---------------------------------------------------------- Just like the latest and greatest prophet the Muslims still can't read.
Did you just blast a giant quote out of your crotch and ignore the principals of economics put forth by some of the greatest minds of capitalism while ignoring the fact you sound like an imperialist from the days of Great Britain or are you just happy to see me?
This is not about Imperialism ... it's about intellectual power ... Muslims believe they have the word of God and 1/2 of them can not even read ... now if they can't read, is it our fault if we and others like the Japanese outsmart them all ?