Will muslims ever wake up

Submitted by Naz (United States), Nov 29, 2005 at 18:17

Here is a United Nations Arab Human Development report.

Muslims make up 22% of the World's population,"Half of Arab women cannot read; One in five Arabs live on less than $2 per day; Only 1 percent of the Arab population has a personal computer, and only half of 1 percent use the Internet; Fifteen percent of the Arab workforce is unemployed; 60% of Muslims are illiterate". No body in a muslim country ever got a noble prize in sciences.
Only 600 universities service a Muslim population of 1.2 billion in 57 countries. Half the universities concentrate on teaching Islamic education . India has 8,407 universities for 1 billion people and the United States has 5,758 for 280 million people. The combined annual GDP (purchasing power parity basis) of the 57 Muslim countries is under $2 trillion. The US produces goods and services worth $10.4 trillion; China $5.7 trillion, Japan $3.5 trillion, India $3 trillion and Germany $2.1 trillion. The oil rich states Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services worth $430 billion; Thailand alone produces goods and services worth $429 billion.

Here is what a muslim Phd tell it like it is (he would be beheaded for saying it ,had he been in his native land).

"The cause of the poverty and ignorance of Muslims is Islam. It is the five times prayers, it is the one month fasting, it is the reading of the Quran instead of science, it is the wasting of people's time teaching them the Islamic way of defecation, urination and copulation, and it is observing all those stupid Islamic rituals that has made Muslims backward, lazy and poor. How by doing more of the same Dr. Saleem, do you expect to remedy the problem? This kind of mentality is mind-boggling. Only a Muslim can be so blinded by his faith that cannot see the forest for the trees".

Ref: faithfreedom.org ("Will muslims ever wake up")

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