What Is The Cost of Practicing Islam?
by Mumin Salih 14/12/2005 RECENTLY, there have been many writings trying to explain why Muslims in general tend to underachieve compared to others. It is ironic that Muslims own the largest oil reserves in the world but their countries remain underdeveloped. You can read this article by Thierry Gattuso addressing the same issue. Apparently, the article was read by a Muslim intellectual who came up with the solution that more Islam is needed. You can read the comments of Ali Sina on the response of Muslims to the crisis in this article. Muslims seem to behave like drug addicts who always need more of the same stuff to relieve their withdrawal symptoms. Muslims just cannot face the crisis head on and cure themselves from this seventh century ideology; instead, they ask for more. This stimulated me to write this essay about the price we are paying for practicing Islam and the price humanity has paid for keeping Islam alive for so long. Although I am not an economist, I delved into this to
