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There's a brilliant essay by a Dr Farrukh Saleem. He is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007 in Islamabad. Basically, he lists the failures of Islamic society in the 20/21th century. Here's an extract: "Why Muslims are so powerless? Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together have around 500 universities; one university for every three million Muslims. The United States has 5,758 universities and India has 8,407. In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an 'Academic Ranking of World Universities,' and not one university from any Muslim-majority states was in the top-500. As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian world stands at nearly 90 per cent and 15 Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of 100 per cent. A Muslim-majority state, by sharp contrast, has an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state with a literacy rate of 100 per cent." He ends a very long list of Islam's failure to come to terms with the modern world with this:
"So, why are Muslims so powerless? Answer: Lack of education. All we do is shout to Allah the whole day, and blame everyone else for our multiple failures." Well said Dr!