Re: I am a Muslim

jamil said @ Feb 07, 2009 10:13am
Our oil Sheik magnates are not free of blame either.

Despite trillions of dollars in income from oil and massive amounts of Western humanitarian aid, we Arabs have yet to create one single monument to human achievement. Rather, at different times, we have pointed the finger of blame at colonialists, multinationals, missionaries, zionists, communists, liberals, religious/ethnic minorities or middle classes. But the blame rests only in ourselves. The Arab League has never once convened an Arab summit to discuss the backward state of education in the Arab world and therein lies the problem.

The sad truth is that the fantasies portrayed in Arabian Nights have long since become an Arabian nightmare because the Arab world has no democratic governments; statism and tribalism hamper market economics and ensure stagnation. Sexual apartheid, Islamic fundamentalism, lack of an independent judiciary, and a censored press all ensure endemic poverty, rampant corruption and rising resentment among an exploding population.