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Poverty in Islamic Nations

Poverty in Islamic Nations. Part 1 The War from the East. Session 1.1 Is This War? Session 1.2 Islam – One of the Great Monotheistic Religions Session 1.3 The Fight for the Soul of Islam Session 1.4 Dar al-Islam – The House of War Session 1.5 The Global Caliphate

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Poverty in Islamic Nations

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  1. Poverty in Islamic Nations

  2. Part 1 The War from the East • Session 1.1 Is This War? • Session 1.2 Islam – One of the Great Monotheistic Religions • Session 1.3 The Fight for the Soul of Islam • Session 1.4 Dar al-Islam – The House of War • Session 1.5 The Global Caliphate • Session 1.6 Islam – Religion of Peace? • Session 1.7 The History of the Conflict • Session 1.8 Poverty in Islamic Nations

  3. Outline • Overview • Religious Freedom • Economic Freedom • Political Freedom • Freedom of Enquiry • Corruption • Technological Deficit • The Root of the Problem

  4. The Poverty Overview

  5. The Decline of Islam • Islam has declined from its “Golden Age of Andalusia”- into poverty • She has fallen behind the West and East Asia • The reason is a change in “mindset” • Figuratively from Mecca to Medina • From persuasion to sword • From “revelation + reason” to “revelation only”

  6. Religious Freedom

  7. Three Classic Positions • Freedom of Religion – Judeo-Christian Theism • Freedom fromReligion – Secularism • Tyranny of Religion – Jihadism

  8. The corollary,namely, that religious liberty begets economic freedom is now provable. Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, PhDFounder & Chairman Spiritual Enterprise Institute

  9. Lack of Religious Liberty The countries with the least religious liberty also suffer the worst economic freedoms and are lacking in political rights.

  10. Center for Religious Freedom - Survey Files (2007) The Range of Religious Freedom by Paul Marshall

  11. Center for Religious Freedom - Survey Files (2007) The Range of Religious Freedom by Paul Marshall

  12. Religious Freedom and Civil Liberties

  13. Economic Freedom

  14. Economic Freedom

  15. GNP “The combined gross national product of twenty-two Arab states … was less than that of Spain.” Fouad Ajami The Foreigner’s Gift

  16. Political Freedom

  17. Freedom and World Population From Freedom House’s 2008 Global Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/fiw08launch/FIW08Tables.pdf

  18. Freedom

  19. Political Freedom

  20. Freedom of Expression

  21. Freedom of the Press

  22. Corruption

  23. Corruption Index

  24. Technological Deficit

  25. The Root of the Problem Culture

  26. The Mind, Not the Ground • Arabs see their resources coming from the ground. • They demonstrated during the “Golden Age of Andalusia” that the mind of the Muslim people was the key to development.

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