6 January 2009, 12:10 pm
Of course there are exceptions, Dubai and Kuwait and maybe Indonesia where there's generally economic and political and social calm. But if you look at predominately Muslim regions, it seems like they're way above the overall global average for economic and political strife. You have places like Gaza, Pakistan and Afghanistan, East Africa and the Sudan, Iraq and Iran, where there's active or looming open warfare. You have places like Bangladesh, again East Africa as well as North and West, many of the former SSRs in South Asia, western China, etc, where people suffer from poor or catastrophic economic conditions. And, when bad, they're among the worst in the world, though, even when good, there are very very few Muslims who live as well and as free as the best non-Muslim countries in the world. There's no obvious overlying reason why this should be - there's a diversity of cultural heritages, natural resources, human resources, etc across the Muslim diaspora, everything that should be required to form a prosperous society I'm just wondering why you might think it is that war and hardship ARE so much more prevalent in the Muslim diaspora than in the West or in Asia or even in South/Central America... Read More »
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