Come on, we're talking 1400 years, not the last 50. Outside of oil, they have no economies. In fact, is it 25% unemployment (and that's just men, women can't work) they have in Saudi Arabia, a country that brings in workers - and slaves - from the Phillipines, India, Africa, etc?
An undiversified economy generates money for only a very few.
The Iranian evolution was a grass roots one. Khomeini was in exile in France, and the people who revolted - the public in general, demanded his return.
You've got it backwards.
You're antipathy towards Christianity skews your version of reality. AGAIN, Christianity, particularly Protestant, created this world you get to criticize without repercussion. Look at Russia. Same deal as the M.E.
Do a Moslem a favor? You just became his b!tch becaaaaause: 1400 years framed by a religion which literally forces people to wall themsleves off from neighbors in order to prevent interaction has created a non cooperative society that prizes solely competition and thinks altruism a waste only to be done by simpering bottom feeding fools. That make sense now?
Various stats compiled by the UN and human rights, etc, orgs, routinely list Islamic countries at the bottom in terms of volunteer work and charity. The phenomenom is so regular that the gov'ts of these countries have taken to asking that thay not be listed at all in order to save from the embarrasment.
You really don't know any of them personally, do you? Please spare me the "Some of my favorite shish kebob stands are owned by..." jazz. And don't ask me to waste time Googling for you sources because your Google app is broken as it was for the Swede pedo thing.
ALL religions command alsmgiving, as well as a litany of other things ahherents then proceed to ignore. Like anything, it's not about what we do, it's about how bad the 'they' are for not doing it. Commandments are just an excuse for condemnations.
Then by what culture this world hath been wrought? Our morality, principles, laws stem from what? The Founding Fathers who not just wrought our Constitution but the template from which all others have fashioned themselves after were mostly atheists/agnostics. But they saw the value of religion, OUR religion, as the necassary foundation.
Don't do that. You know this already. I'm wasting time on untwisting paltry propaganda. I'm done.
I was raised Catholic, am basically atheistic, functionally agnostic. There's more to my upbringing that gives me first h