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by sshumaker
3750 days ago
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You have to be very careful to tease out correlation from causation here. In the Middle Ages the Islamic world was significantly ahead of the West in these regards. For a bunch of historical reasons (ineffectiveness of Ottoman Empire for several hundred years, World War I) most of the Islamic world is indeed behind first-world countries. But that's also like blaming Christianity for the problems in Central America or Central Africa. Religion is only a small factor. |
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