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Originally Posted by Trollheart
What advances do you know of that can be attributed to Islamic countries, or at least, hardline Islam-ruled ones in the last 100 years?
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It's almost like a full century of European colonial powers invading, supporting unpopular regimes, geographically reapportioning, siphoning resources, and then leaving due to military and political exhaustion after World War II had a negative effect on the internal development of places with few natural resource advantages and a several thousand year history of tribal culture.
Seriously, what are you hoping to get from your question? For Janszoon, elphenor, Rjinn, and myself to say "you got us, they're only good at blowing themselves up and stoning women to death - those damn Muslims"?
I'm not sure how many different ways there are to say 'fundamentalism is a bad thing, people who kill for their god are unstable, and when it appears to be a culturally approved act there is usually a larger explanation, which in the case of the Middle East and Islam, the genesis of today's unrest is the political history of a region not allowed to develop free of outside influence.'