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Despite shortcomings, Muslims Most Civilized in the World – 20
Christians vis-à-vis Muslims
By Dr. Javed Jamil
Christians would better realise that Westernism is an enemy of all religions including Christianity, which was in fact its first target, and it is high time all religions united against the institutions that are commercialising vices. “
It is only fair to expect that the series is causing a lot of resentment in the blind followers of West, the ones for whom Islam and Muslim bashing is a profession, and Islamophobes. The challenged posed to New World Order, represented by Westernism, in this series is enough to generate heated excitement on both sides of the front. However I will like here to say that as far as societies are concerned, no one is perfect, with all having shortcomings of different kinds. As far as the system is concerned, of course, Islam if wholly implemented in its true spirit, is a perfect system and New World Order stands no chance against Natural Word Order (Nizam-e fitrah), which Islam brings for the mankind. But Muslims have many shortcomings, which we will discuss at a later stage in this series. If they have to succeed they will have to establish Natural World Order at the earliest, and that has to serve not just the Muslims but the whole mankind.
There are people who have doubted the statistics produced by me. I have been compiling all these statistics all alone and there are chances that there may be minor discrepancies here and there. When the book is finally published, all these small errors will be taken care of. But these small discrepancies do not influence the outcome as a whole.
Is Christian Community more civilised than Muslim?
The claim that West is the “civilised” world has already fallen flat. With huge involvement in millions of killings worldwide, high crime rates within the countries including crimes against women, almost 50 percent foeticide rate, extremely high rates of divorces, around a third to half the children being born out of wedlock, with a big percentage of women having to act as single parents and children living in lone parent families, big involvement in social vices including alcohol, gambling and betting, commercialisation of sex to the hilt, including prostitution and pornography, causing heavy damage to the ecology and environment, adoption of economic policies that augment economic disparity at all levels and use of their power to threaten the rest of the world, Westernism can at best be described as barbarism at its worst. I am now going to explode another myth here. People often argue that Muslims are worst of all religious communities. When they make these kinds of statements, they tend to think that West is the only Christian World and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan and Bangladesh are the only Muslim World.
The truth however is that West forms only a significant but small part of the whole Christian world. The bigger truth is that the Western world at large cannot even claim to be Christian World. A majority of the Westerners, with the exception of Americans and a few other smaller nations have no faith in Christianity as a religion, and the rise of Westernism was in truth a death blow to Christianity as a political and socioeconomic institution. There is a bigger Christian world than the Western world, which lives in abject poverty and the threat to the very existence of their lives. The following is the list of countries where Christians form more than half of the population.
American Samoa 68,000 98.3%
Andorra 76,000 90.0%
Angola ( 17,094,000 90.0%
Anguilla 14,000 90.5%
Antigua and Barbuda 66,000 74.0%
Argentina 37,561,000 92.7%
Armenia 3,196,000 98.7%
Aruba 96,000 90.1%
Australia 14,345,000 63.9%
Austria 5,855,314 69.9%
Bahamas 333,000 96.3%
Barbados 244,000 95.0%
Belarus 7,578,000 80.0%
Belgium 5,197,000 48.0%
Belize 247,000 76.7%
Bermuda 44,000 67.0%
Bolivia 9,730,000 97.0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,918,000 51.0%
Botswana 1,416,000 71.6%
Brazil 174,700,000 90.4%
British Virgin Islands 22,000 96.0%
Bulgaria 6,364,000 84.0%
Burundi 5,708,000 67.0%
Canada 26,401,000 77.1%
Cape Verde 487,000 95.0%
Cayman Islands 42,000 73.8%
Central African Republic 2,253,000 50.0%
Chile 14,930,000 87.2%
Colombia 44,502,000 97.6%
Comoros 15,000 2.1%
Cook Islands 19,000 94.3%
Congo, Republic of 3,409,000 90.7%
Congo, 63,825,000 90.0%
Costa Rica 3,912,000 84.3%
Croatia 4,107,000 92.6%
Cuba 9,523,000 85.0%
Cyprus 625,000 78.0%
Denmark 4,546,000 82.0%
Dominica 59,000 88.7%
Dominican 9,734,000 95.2%
East Timor 1,152,000 98.4%
Ecuador 14,099,000 99.0%
El Salvador 5,073,000 81.9%
Equatorial Guinea 683,000 98.6%
Eritrea 2,664,000 62.5%
Ethiopia 54,978,000 64.5%
Falkland Islands 3,000 94.3%
Faroe Islands 46,000 94.0%
Fiji 498,000 58.3%
Finland 4,347,000 81.0%
France 35,014,000 53.5%
Gabon 1,081,000 72.0%
Georgia 3,930,000 88.6%
Germany 400,000 59.9%
Ghana 741,000 68.8%
Greece 080,000 98.0%
Greenland 5,000 96.6%
Grenada 101,000 97.3%
Guatemala 14,018,000 97.5%
Guyana 434,000 57.0%
Haiti 8,527,000 83.7%
Honduras 6,321,000 83.0%
Hungary 7,450,000 74.4%
Iceland 284,000 89.3%
Ireland 4,116,000 92.3%
Italy 55,070,000 91.1%
Jamaica 1,784,000 65.3%
Kenya 34,774,000 85.1%
Latvia 1,280,000 57.2%
Lesotho 1,876,000 90.0%
Liberia 1,391,000 40.0%
Liechtenstein 32,000 87.8%
Lithuania 2,827,000 84.9%
Luxembourg 437,000 87.0%
Macedonia, Republic of 1,334,000 65.1%
Malawi 12,538,000 79.9%
Malta 408,000 98.0%
Mexico 105,095,000 94.5%
Micronesia, 106,000 95.4%
Moldova 3,503,000 98.3%
Monaco 29,000 87.7%
Montenegro 487,000 77.8%
Namibia 1,991,000 90.0%
Netherlands 7,210,000 43.4%
New Zealand 2,426,000 55.3%
Nicaragua 5,217,000 89.6%
Norway 4,195,000 85.6%
Palau 16,000 77.9%
Panama 3,057,000 92.0%
Papua New Guinea 6,640,000 96.4%
Paraguay 6,260,000 96.9%
Peru 27,635,000 93.8%
Philippines 90,530,000 92.4%
Poland 36,526,000 95.7%
Portugal 9,222,000 86.7%
Puerto Rico 3,878,000 97.0%
Romania 20,930,000 97.5%
Russia 99,775,000 70.3%
Rwanda 9,619,000 93.6%
San Marino 31,000 97.0%
Serbia 9,038,000 91.7%
Seychelles 80,000 94.7%
Slovakia 3,877,000 71.4%
Slovenia 1,135,212 57.8%
South Africa 39,843,000 79.7%
Spain 35,568,000 77.2%
Swaziland 994,000 82.7%
Sweden 7,148,000 76.2%
Switzerland 6,172,000 79.3%
Tonga 84,000 81.0%
Trinidad and Tobago 774,000 57.6%
Uganda 29,943,000 88.6%
Ukraine 41,973,000 91.5%
United Kingdom 44,522,000 71.8%
United States 243,186,000 78.4%
Uruguay 2,027,000 58.01%
Vatican City 800 100
Venezuela 8,340,000
Zambia 12,939,000 97.6%
Zimbabwe 10,747,000 85.0%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country
* In this list again, the overwhelming majority belongs to Countries with predominant Christian population. The low life expectancy in these countries, among other factors, is also significantly related to high incidence of AIDS-related deaths, which has devastated most of these countries, all the young having been wiped out in many localities leaving only children and the old. It is not without significance that Muslims who form about one fifth to one third of the population of these countries have been much less affected than Christian populations, and it has been well documented that circumcision and other factors are responsible for this difference. Their condition remains pathetic despite receiving largest share of aid from the international agencies, which evade many of the Muslim majority poor countries.
Now if we have a look at the list of the per capita income by the country, as given by international institutions, the list of lowest ranking 25 countries is as follows:
158 Benin 689
159 Haiti 673
160 Bangladesh 638
161 Gambia, The 617
162 Burkina Faso 598
163 Zimbabwe 594
164 Timor-Leste 588
165 Rwanda 562
166 Nepal
Dear Mr ,,,,,,,,
Your style tells me that you have some influence of our respected Mr Iftakhar Hai of US who has an expertise in finding out statistics that could perpetually keep Muslims in Inferiority Complex. If you had read my all chapters, you would have easily find answers to your questions. But I find here those people criticizing me or trying to put me on the defensive who have no intention to read what I have write. They are so overawed by the West that they only see the positives of the west and negatives of Muslim world. For them “World class:, “International Community”, “human rights” -- all these terms mean only what West thinks. Did you go through the chapter on education that I penned?
I have never said that Muslims are as civilized as they must be. The tile, “Despite shortcomings” itself clearly suggests that I have an eye on the shortcomings of Muslims which I will start discussing soon. I also did not say anywhere that Muslims are most powerful. But I can say that though Muslims are not as CIVILISED as they must be, with the kind of System they have in hands (Islam) they are certainly the most civilized people of the world today, and hugely more civilized than the Western world which has been responsible for massive numbers of deaths both outside and inside their countries. They have uncivilized drinking and eating habits, uncivilized sexual attitudes, uncivilized family life and uncivilized social life with huge crimes inside and killings outside and involvement in all kinds of social vices. It is not however the people but the system that is more responsible for the behavior of these societies.
I have shown that
The literacy rate is generally high in Muslim countries. There are several Muslim countries which have a literacy rate higher than even the USA and UK, and there are many countries with over 90 pc literacy rate that include several Arab countries.
2 countries, Indonesia and Bangladesh appear in the list of countries with highest number of universities with Bangladesh having almost as many universities per million populations as India, and having more universities than China.
In terms of students studying at secondary level too, the ranking of Muslim countries is good;
Muslim countries are fast catching up in advanced scientific education and research with countries like Iran, Turkey and Malaysia doing extremely well; Iran in fact figures at the top of the list of countries with highest growth rate in scientific researches;
The standards of moral and religious education are certainly much higher in Muslim countries which reflects in the attitudes of the people in society with greater aversion for harmful practices like alcohol, gambling and promiscuity;
Muslims in countries like India and Pakistan need to do much more to play an effective role
While this remains an unchallenged truth that Westerners are the leaders in terms of modern education, Muslims are fast catching up; and the good thing is that they are trying to do it within the parameters of their religion. But they need to do more to emerge as the contenders of the top position.
Muslims maybe behind Western Christians but they are not behind Christian world in general and several other prominent religious communities.
But Muslims have to move ahead and remove their shortcomings as soon as possible.
One more thing. Somebody asked if Muslims had so much literacy rate, how come so many Indian graduates flood Arab countries.
Literacy means literacy. Even America and Australia are also full of Indian (even Pak) graduates. India is such a huge country that even despite its not very good literacy rate, it produces huge numbers of graduates who find it easier to earn in other countries. The educational progress in Arab countries is a relatively late phenomenon, but certainly the flow of Indians in Arab countries is steadily slowing.
Regards
javed jamil
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