Poverty in Islamic Nations

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Poverty in Islamic Nations
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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

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Outline

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

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The Poverty

• Overview

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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

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Religious Freedom
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Three Classic Positions

• Freedom of Religion Judeo-Christian Theism
• Freedom from Religion Secularism
• Tyranny of Religion Jihadism

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• The corollary, namely, that religious liberty
  begets economic freedom is now provable.
• Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, PhD Founder
  Chairman
• Spiritual Enterprise Institute

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Lack of Religious Liberty

• The countries with the least religious liberty
  also suffer the worst economic freedoms and are
  lacking in political rights.

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Center for Religious Freedom - Survey Files
(2007) The Range of Religious Freedom by Paul
Marshall
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Center for Religious Freedom - Survey Files
(2007) The Range of Religious Freedom by Paul
Marshall
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Religious Freedom and Civil Liberties
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Economic Freedom
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Economic Freedom
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GNP

• The combined gross national product of
  twenty-two Arab states was less than that of
  Spain.
• Fouad Ajami
• The Foreigners Gift

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Political Freedom
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Freedom and World Population
From Freedom Houses 2008 Global Survey of
Political Rights and Civil Liberties http//www.fr
eedomhouse.org/uploads/fiw08launch/FIW08Tables.pdf

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Freedom
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Political Freedom
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Freedom of Expression
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Freedom of the Press
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Corruption
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Corruption Index
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Technological Deficit
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The Root of the Problem

• Culture

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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.