Why Islamic Countries are So Backward
On the left: What Muslims Present as the face of Islam - Right: The True Face of Islam
Photo Credit: Answering Muslims
Between 1901 and 2014, the Nobel Prizes in Science and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded to 761 individuals (see my article Number of Jews who have received the Nobel Prize). Had those prizes been awarded in proportion to population percentages, Muslims would have garnered 190 of them. So how many Nobel prizes did Muslims actually win? Would you believe a piddling, measly four prizes!
If I happen to mention that Jews with a hundreds times fewer population have almost 200 Nobel Laureates, a number of my Muslim readers will offer excuses as to why this is so; however, as I wrote in my article Why Jews Win So Many Nobel Prizes and Muslims Do Not:
Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan, is one Muslim who did not make excuses for Muslim backwardness and lack of Nobel Prizes; he repeatedly pointed out in his speeches that the few Muslims who had won the Nobel Prize only did so because they were working at non-Muslim institutions. He realized that it is Islam that is holding back the Muslim people.
But is there any one thing about Islam, more than any other, that makes Islamic countries so backward, so ignorant, so primitive, and especially so savage?
The West's leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, offers his opinion in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:
WSJ, 2 Apr 2011, The Weekend Interview With Bernard Lewis: 'The Tyrannies Are Doomed'
"My own feeling is that the greatest defect of Islam and the main reason they fell behind the West is the treatment of women," he says. He makes the powerful point that repressive homes pave the way for repressive governments. "Think of a child that grows up in a Muslim household where the mother has no rights, where she is downtrodden and subservient. That's preparation for a life of despotism and subservience. It prepares the way for an authoritarian society," he says.
As I wrote in my article List of Chinese Nobel Prize Laureates: "Religion or Governments that deny freedom and liberty just do not create anything."
Unless Muslims reform their religion, abrogate all the violent, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and misogynistic portions of the Qur'an, and stop emulating their savage, brutal, pedophilic, bigoted, slave-holding, whoremongering prophet Mohammed, piss be upon him, they will continue to be the world's most ignorant, most-disease-ridden, most primitive, most barbaric of societies.
For more info on Islam's Treatment of Women read Misogyny in the Muslim World: Bound by Culture or Religion? at the Huffpost.
