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Originally Posted by JoshGirls Josh
for a progressive, that sure is republican of you. 
i might suggest that institutional slavery is the reason arab & african nations are struggling. If you take a population of people, kill all the smart & productive ones for a dozen generations, what innovations can you expect from them?
shouldnt be a suprise that places which enjoy peace & wealth are able to innovate while places which are constantly at war are not. |
But we didn't enslave Arabs and they were at one point the most advanced civilization in the world. Their downfall comes down to one thing.. That's forcing Islam aka Religion on the masses and not allowing critical thinking to take place.
This is no one's fault but their own. The West, mostly Europe also had to deal with this, but critical thinking won out and advancements were made once the Church was put into it's place.
The middle East is not comparable to Africa in that sense because the Middle East did have the opportunity to move away from the stone age and move into an industrial revolution which is what advanced the West as well as the East..
The middle East however chose to stick with Religion as top fiddle and still live in the stone age due to it and have become nothing more than a play toy for the other advanced countries.
Also, I've never claimed to be a progressive. I'm liberal about somethings and conservative about other things. I just like to laugh and poke fun at the radical conservatives here on GFY, because they are hypocrites. I used to agree with Republicans on many issues, until they went bat shit crazy.