So why is every Islamic majority country a shithole?
Hard mode: No blaming whitey
>>74774956
Ey, Germany is a nice place.
>>74775081
Those bants make you honorary white.
>>74774956
because Islam is a barbaric cult formed by a warlord to get assholes to fight for him and do whatever he said because "ugh, god said so!"
It has nothing to do with a philosophy on life, or an outlook on spirituality or anything like that. It just this one guy making a cult so he could have complete power
Saudi Arabia looks pretty nice, at least the cities
>>74774956
1. Silk Road died out when Europeans discovered trade routes directly to the East.
2. Mongols depopulated most of the Islamic World in 1200's
3. Tamerlane did the same in 1400's
4. Persia went through a series of wars in 1600's against Russians, Afghans, and Ottomans and major cities depopulated again.
4. Collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 20th century brought a void allowing many ideologies to fight and bringing further instability
What's Portugal's explanation for being a shithole?
>>74775653
This faggot here fucked our shit up so hard the effects are still felt today. The economy recovered a bit during the fascist regime, no one can take that away from them, but that got fucked too.
>>74775928
cool, what's his name? i read a lot of history so I can explain the middle east fairly well. but haven't read anything on portugal
>>74775653
So its everyone elses fault is what you are saying?
>>74774956
Islam
>>74775081
Not for long, Alejandro
Because their not being christian
>>74774956
You forgot Dubai
>>74774956
The UAE isn't a shithole.
>>74775928
Dont worry boi
He ll come back
>>74775928
and this guy >>74775279
is American and consequently knows nothing.
If Islam itself was responsible for the region being a shithole then how does anyone explain the prosperity of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate? Ottomans too for that matter but they went into economic decline following the collapse of the Silk Road and then they didn't bother to get into the colonial game like the western countries did
>>74776168
D. Sebastião. To give you the short version, he decided to go fight kebabs in Morocco for whatever reason, and promptly got himself and a lot of the nobility killed.
His death paved the way for the Iberian Union, in which Spain fucked up our fleet trying invade England and our old allies started attacking our colonies.
To get out independence back we had to give a huge chunk of India to England.
After that it was steady decline.
>>74776168
>what's his name?
>>74774956
Islam. And shitskin genes.
>>74776350
This, UAE is nicer than anywhere in Europe.
>>74776350
it's not muslim majority either. like 80% of the population is foreign. when I was there, I saw more asians than arabs.
>>74776399
>HURR YOURE WRONG ABOUT ISLAM BEING NOTHING BUT A VIOLENT WAR CULT BECAUSE LOOK AT THESE ISLAMIC STATES THE WERE GOOD AT TAKING OVER SHIT!
go shitpost somewhere else
>>74776589
>>74776653
>american discussing violence and wars of others
kek
Turkey and Iran are not bad.
The big cities in Pakistan(Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad) are alright, also they build nukes and supercomputers.
[Real Answer]
The Plague and the Mongols.
>>74774956
I live in peace senpai.
Tunisia is kawaii muslim country
>>74776819
Most -stans except Tajikistan and Afghanistan are really just poor, not really shitholes.
>>74777079
So long as you can keep the Islamists out of the government.
>>74776399
>If Islam itself was responsible for the region being a shithole then how does anyone explain the prosperity of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate?
Not saying that this is the ultimate rebuttal, but one would have to be a major fuck up to squander away all the wealth of the arabian peninsula, the former Sassanid Empire and the richest provinces of the Byzantine/Easter Roman Empire. With the insane prosperity those lands brought the islamic empire, coupled with the wealth brought home from raiding and demanding tribute from neighboring states there is no wonder that the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate was an extremely rich place to rule.
>>74776819
karachi was the fucking worst map of mw2
don't try and tell me it's not bad
>>74774956
Could ask the same about Buddhist countries, barring Japan.
>>74777434
Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaBcoohFzSM
>>74777602
The Umayyad's turned Iberia into the wealthiest part of Europe too because they had the foresight to expand trade across the Mediterranean. Cordoba grew to 10 x the population of London and had a lot of public utilities.
Byzantium had been in a 200 year on and off civil war before the Ottoman's took Constantinople. It was the Ottomans that restored Anatolia to stability and prosperity.
The fact is that there was a long period when the Islamic World did know what it was doing
Malaysia, turkey, tunisia are all ok. and call iran what you want but its not a shithole.
well turkey isn't that shitty to be fair. was much better before tayyip.
>>74774956
Islam is a shitty religion, but it's not like the Mongols didn't make it even shittier. Furthermore, the death of the Ottoman Empire only precipitated things further.
>>74774956
saudi arabia doesn't seem like a shithole, the emirates too
>>74778490
>how did a people that invaded an already structured society built from Roman provinces with modern architecture and utilities become some wealthy when sand niggers invaded and took over the facilities
Gee, idk you bogan
>>74778490
I'm not arguing against that. What I pointed out was that your argument was kinda flawed as the Umayyad and the Abbasid caliphates sat on immense wealth from a very early period of the muslim conquests.
>>74781347
Umayyads and Ottomans weren't introduced to civilization upon contacting Europe. They built tremendously upon it. Ottomans were the ones that fixed Anatolia and Iberia was fairly backwards before the Umayyads brought it into Mediterranean trade. prosperity was about stability and trade which is what the Caliphates in these times were good at. Minorities were given general autonomy to run their own communities so they were typically content.
Meanwhile, Charlemagne was rampaging through northern Europe and the vikings were pillaging the coasts. It was quite good under these Caliphates in comparison to what was happening in Europe during this era.
At the end of the day, pol wants to find any excuse that Islam ruined everything but it's not true. Today's issues are different to the past issues.
>>74774956
Sharia law suppression classical expressions of academics, and banned movable type press and dissemination of information to their populace.
Its also the reason why no university systems arose in any serious capacity.
Literacy was restricted to the clerical and aristocratic classes, leaving vast swaths of illiterate individuals. You'll notice that islam starting losing more and more consistantly to their european counterparts after moveable type press was invented; it turns out that being more literate tends to make for better soldiers and civilizations.
