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Originally Posted by crockett
The Middle East is prime example of what religion does to countries if left to run amok. The Middle East at one point had the most advanced civilizations on this planet however the fact that they revolved around their religious beliefs never allowed them to move very far away from the stone age
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Not really true, in the entire history of the Middle East, its greatest heights were reached under Islam. They led the world in science and medicine, education and scholarship, extremely worldly nothing like what we think of them today. Jews were treated with respect in the Islamic world.
The Crusades and then Ghengis Khan brought the end to the golden age of Islam.
The discovery of oil to me is the worst thing that ever happened to the Arab world.