Why did Muslim God make Muslim Countries so poor?

[웃 910]

These are serious questions based on obvious facts. No, I am not trying to be silly. The questions crossed my mind today and I thought I would ask. Please do not take administrative action against me for posting a serious question. If it is so bad (which I don't think it is) then just close the thread. QUESTION:

Why did Muslim God make Muslim countries so ABSURDLY poor? The following 30 countries range anywhere from 88% to 100% Muslim population. They are THE MOST MUSLIM POPULATED countries in the world. On the far right of the chart below is GDP per capita. Here are some factual stats:

• Only 2 countries (Saudi Arabia and Oman) have a GDP per capita greater than $20,000 (in the top 30 in chart)
• Only 3 rank over $10,000 but less than $15,000
• The other 25 have GDPs per capita ranging from $600 a year to $7656 per year.
• The majority are around the $1500 per year range which is just pitiful.

Does this make any sense? If I was Muslim God I would make the countries with the most Muslim people the most prosperous. That doesn't seem to be the case based on the given data. For example, a baby born in the United States has a lot more opportunity than a baby born in Somalia, Afghanistan, or Comoros.

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Your thread is what happens when you take a small-slice-of-time view at what is a very long historical record. There are reasons Western Europe and the US raced ahead of the rest of the world in the early 1800s and those reasons have nothing to do with Islam or Christianity.

[Anh map 2,098]

Ricky Gervais has it figured out.

[peejay 327]

Your thread is what happens when you take a small-slice-of-time view at what is a very long historical record. There are reasons Western Europe and the US raced ahead of the rest of the world in the early 1800s and those reasons have nothing to do with Islam or Christianity.

What are the reasons? You can't just leave us hanging.

[웃 910]

Your thread is what happens when you take a small-slice-of-time view at what is a very long historical record. There are reasons Western Europe and the US raced ahead of the rest of the world in the early 1800s and those reasons have nothing to do with Islam or Christianity.

Why not? If the people of Western Europe / US were majority non-Muslim then doesn't their religion have at least a little to do with it?

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What are the reasons? You can't just leave us hanging.

What happened in the early 1800s that caused Western Europe to pull ahead of the rest of the world? You really don't know?

[웃 910]

What happened in the early 1800s that caused Western Europe to pull ahead of the rest of the world? You really don't know?

LAWN MOWER

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Why not? If the people of Western Europe / US were majority non-Muslim then doesn't their religion have at least a little to do with it?

If Islam dragged them down, it would have done so back when Islam first started. That the gulf between that part of the world and Western Europe emerged in the early 1800s points to something else as the cause.

If you read a single history book about Western Civ at all, you'd know what I'm talking about.

[웃 910]

If Islam dragged them down, it would have done so back when Islam first started. That the gulf between that part of the world and Western Europe emerged in the early 1800s points to something else as the cause.

If you read a single history book about Western Civ at all, you'd know what I'm talking about.

Are the initials "I" and then "R" ?

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Are the initials "I" and then "R" ?

Very good.

[Boiler 45,663]

What happened in the early 1800s that caused Western Europe to pull ahead of the rest of the world? You really don't know?

Napoleonic wars?

French lost.

[peejay 327]

What happened in the early 1800s that caused Western Europe to pull ahead of the rest of the world? You really don't know?

What is this...Jeopardy?

Spit it out! You opened the can of beans...spill it out.

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What is this...Jeopardy?

Spit it out! You opened the can of beans...spill it out.

LI answered it. If you want to find out, you can. In fact, the journey of finding out might be worth it. I wouldn't want to deprive you of a learning opportunity.

[peejay 327]

LI answered it. If you want to find out, you can. In fact, the journey of finding out might be worth it. I wouldn't want to deprive you of a learning opportunity.

Of course...everyone has their own theories. Some are just more P.C. than others. I'm more interested in yours since you seem confidant that yours is the correct answer that is palatable enough for VJ consumption.

Or maybe it isn't and that is why you are too shy to share.

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Of course...everyone has their own theories. Some are just more P.C. than others. I'm more interested in yours since you seem confidant that yours is the correct answer that is palatable enough for VJ consumption.

Or maybe it isn't and that is why you are too shy to share.

I've already shared. Read.

ps. PC? can you say one-track mind.

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