Pathetic. Islamic 'civilization' has had centuries to advance, and it hasn't. Instead, it continues to wallow in religious foolishness. The only reason the middle east is even remotely relevant in the modern world is oil. Without oil, the middle east would become as culturally unimportant as Africa. Why don't you take a look to your left and to your right, The Green Bean. What you will see is the rest of the world advancing. Japan was nuked twice, and still managed to rebuild their nation and become a major part of the modern world. Islamic nations have had far longer, and have done far less. Stop making excuses for your own foolishness. It's pathetic. Everyone knows this.
LOL good stuff Piggy. I love pork FYI.
Islam does not encourage economic success. Islam gets in the way of economic success. Never has a Islamic state built its own skyscrapers, its own highways, its own anything, but relies on the West. Why?
The first reason is inshallah-fatalism. Basically in every second phase Muslims use that term, and what they mean is if you really believe that at any moment Allah can come in, and exercise his will or his whim, and if all things are decided by him, well then, to the extent that that is truly believed, you are less likely to strive. You will, inshallah, succeed, inshallah, or it will, inshallah, fail. End of discussion for da fundi.
Second - is of mental submission, which Islam encourages. It encourages a total regulation of life and explanation of the universe because the whole basis of the Total Belief-System is not reason, but authority: you accept what Allah does, without questioning, period. You follow the human example of Muhammad, without questioning. If Muhammad "marries" little Aisha when she is nine, no need to question that or to question anything, therefore, the Ayatollah Khomeini when, as virtually his first act when seizing controlling power in Iran, he lowers the marriageable age of girls to nine. If Muhammad said this about the Unbelievers, or did this or that to them, because Muhammad is the Perfect Man, we must do as this homicidal backwards pedophile did.