What the Arab World Produces

islamonazis-in-syria-with-koran-and-fascist-salute-30.9.2013At least since the early part of the 20th century, aside from oil, the Arab world has produced and exported two products.

It has produced essentially no technology, medicine or anything else in the world of science. It has almost no contributions to world literature, art or to intellectual development.

According to the most recent United Nations Arab Human Development Reports (2003-2005), written by Arab intellectuals, Greece, with a population of 11 million, annually translates five times more books from English than the entire Arab world, population 370 million. Nor is this a new development. The total number of books translated into Arabic during the last 1,000 years is less than Spain translates into Spanish in one year.

ArabianBusiness.com reports that about 100 million people in the Arab world are illiterate; and three quarters of them are between the ages of 15 and 45.

As for Arab women, the situation is even worse. Nearly half of the Arab world’s women are illiterate, and sexual attacks on women have actually increased since the Arab Spring, as have forced marriages and trafficking. And the exact number of women murdered by family members in “honor killings” is not knowable. It is only known to be large.

In Egypt, the largest Arab country, 91 percent of women and girls are subjected to female genital mutilation, according to UNICEF. Not to mention the number of women in the Arab world who must wear veils or even full-face and full-body coverings known as burkas. And, of course, Saudi Arabia is infamous for not allowing women to drive a car.

Another unhappy feature of the Arab world is the prevalence of lies. To this day, Egypt denies that it was the Egyptian pilot, Ahmed El-Habashi, who allegedly crashed an EgyptAir jet into the ocean deliberately. Vast numbers of Arabs believe that Jews knew of the 9-11 plot and avoided going to work at the World Trade Center that day.

So, then, is there anything at which the Arab world has excelled for the past two generations? Has there been a major Arab export?

As it happens, there are two.

Hatred and violence.

The Arab world has no peer when it comes to hatred – of the Western world generally, and especially of Israel. Israel-hatred and its twin, Jew-hatred, are the oxygen that the Arab world breathes.

Two of the most popular songs in Egypt over the past decade have been “I Hate Israel” and the ironically named “I Love Israel.”

Lyrics of the latter song include:

“May it [Israel] be destroyed. May it be wiped off the map. May a wall fall on it. May it disappear from the universe. God, please have it banished.”

“May it dangle from the noose. May I get to see it burning, Amen. I will pour gasoline on it. I am an Egyptian man. I am not a coward.”

“I Hate Israel” is so popular that it was the song which Egypt’s pop star Chaaboula sang at the largest music festival in the Arab world, Morocco’s Mawazine.

The festival, one of the biggest in the world, featured Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Ricky Martin and Kool and the Gang.

Some of the lyrics:

“I hate Israel, and I would say so if I was asked to.

“Two faces of the same coin, America and Israel. They made the world a jungle and ignited the fuse.

“About that [Twin] Tower, oh people. Definitely! His friends [Israel] were the ones who brought it down.”

The other major Arab product and export has been violence.

It is difficult to overstate the amount of violence in the Arab world. Mass murder and cruelty have characterized the Arab world.

Regarding Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Dexter Filkins, the New York Times correspondent in Iraq from 2003-2006 wrote: “Here, in Hussein, was one of the world’s indisputably evil men: he murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead.”

Syria, too, has been a country of mass murder, torture, and brutal totalitarian rule — under the rule of Hafez Assad (in power 1971-2000), and his son, Bashar, the current killer-dictator who, among other atrocities, used Sarin gas against his own people in 2013.

In the ongoing Syrian Civil War, according to the United Nations, between March 15, 2011 and April 30, 2014, 191,000 Syrians, about a third of them civilians, were killed. In addition, 2.5 million people have fled Syria to neighboring countries, and 6.5 million have fled their homes within Syria.

In Algeria in the 1990s, Islamist terrorists engaged in wholesale murder of their fellow Algerians. That war cost Algeria about 100,000 lives, mostly civilian.

In Sudan, the Arab government’s atrocities against the non-Arab population in the region of Darfur led to about 300,000 deaths and over a million refugees. In addition there was systematic rape of untold numbers of non-Arab women by Arab gangs known as the Janjaweed.

And then there was the terror unleashed by Palestinians against Israeli civilians in restaurants, at weddings, on buses, etc. The Palestinians are the modern fathers of terrorism directed solely at civilians.

There are two possible reactions to this description of the Arab world. One is that it is an example of anti-Arab “racism.” That would be the reaction in much of the Arab world, on the left and among most academics — despite the fact that the description is of a culture and that the Arabs are not a race. The other is that is that it is tragically accurate. That would be the reaction of some in the Arab world and anyone who cares about truth. One such individual is an Arab. In Politico Magazine two weeks ago. Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite channel, titled his article “The Barbarians Within Our Gates.” The subtitle is “Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.”

Islamic State, which is overwhelmingly Arab, is just the latest manifestation.

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  • truebearing

    Islam began with the Arabs. With its bitter fruits of hatred and death, it was sown throughout the Middle East, then exported all over the world. The entire human race will end up paying the price for the failure to recognize and destroy this evil existential threat.

  • UCSPanther

    This is what you get when you have a culture that is mired in the Medieval times…

  • http://JudeoChristianAmerica.org Alexander Gofen

    No! The title ought to be “What the islamic world produces”, Mr. Prager. All along the article the term “Arab” (ethnicity) must be replaced with Islam! All these facts are true also for Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and every last crapistan of the world. Their ethnicities vary, but their religion, culture, and politic is the same – islam: Whichever brand of it does not matter much…

    Judging by this and the previous articles on the similar topic, Mr. Prager now is in a business of deliberate obfuscation. What a sudden change in the former exemplary “clear thinker”.

    • David

      Arabic is also a language which makes it easier to present the numbers of translated books and articles and scientific research papers. Furthermore, He’s prob somewhat hesitant to use the term Islamic given the current state of friendly relations between Israelis and Kurds.

  • Larry Larkin

    “Muslims are the best of men, and arabs are the best of muslims” says it all.

  • joe kulak

    What do you expect from a region that glorifies a 6th century mass-murdering sociopath?

  • Hard Little Machine

    The upside is we’ll be operating kosher hot dog stands on the moon and they’ll be squatting round the camel dung fire at night knife fighting one another over who’s turn it is to sodomize the stable boy.

  • Jeff Ludwig

    Yep. Dennis has it right. Thanks.

  • Petr

    Arab civilization did not colapse, they did not have one in the first place. Looted goods from subjugated empires cannot last forever – in due time all of it faded.

  • s;vbkr0boc,klos;

    Save indigenous cultures! That was a big thing when I was young. It never dawned on me that Indonesians with Arab names and their culture ruthlessly suppressed was ‘colonialism’ too. Iranians, Berbers, Afghan Buddhists, Ancient central Asian tribes etc. etc. The cultural devastation of Islam is mind-boggling

    • De Doc

      Now these cultures share the Arab’s massive inferiority complex only to a much higher degree. Non-Arab Muslim’s have this tendency to convince themselves that there is some hidden, Arab blood in their veins, which evidences an idea that their own ethnic & cultural legacy was nil before the Muslim Arabs arrived.

  • http://islamsfatalflaw.blogspot.com/ BobSmith101

    Islamic theology as a whole is a defective blueprint for a society.

    If you could take a society – say a peaceful Buddhist/Hindu one – and install the “blueprint of Islam” what would you have – Afghanistan and Pakistan.

    And what do you get – dysfunction and violence.

    Islam as a whole is defective – and needs to be recalled.

    • De Doc

      Any ideology that claims to have all the answers and can tell you the exact and proper way to pray, eat, sleep defecate and fornicate can never be a positive force for any society.

  • ObamaYoMoma

    First, I must confess I didn’t read the article so this may be off base, but the reason the Arab world doesn’t produce anything other than perpetual jihad and lots and lots of misery is because of Islam.

    • DennisMets

      it is no secret Muslims are full of hate esp for Christians and Jews, so blacks are so full of hate for the devil privileged whites, Muslims are now taking over the senate and the United States, and black congressmen and our government have brought in millions of refugee Muslims and put them in our communities bought them homes and schooled them jus t to watch them breed like rats and fil our communities with hate and crimes. soon blacks will convert to Islam by the millions and declare war on the hated devil whites and christians it will be a blood bath

  • ssohara

    Prior to Islam, the Arab world was a more vibrant place. Just looking at the position of women in the Arab world – they obviously owned businesses (Muhammad’s wife was a very successful and educated business woman) and had a degree of freedom. After Muhammad – well, what do we see today? What was Persia like before Islam? We know how great Egypt once was. India was a different place before the Muslim conquest.

  • Stinky

    Muslims are worthless scum. The planet will be better off without them mucking it up.

  • greatj

    As long as Islam believes in devil worship and hatred for other religions and peoples all they have is a mass murder mentality that will destroy themselves in the end. Also another great article by Dennis

  • Pericles

    Oil has made it possible for a backward, medieval culture to threaten modern western civilization with extinction. Without the trillions of dollars that oil has generated for authoritarian and intolerant Muslim countries, modern day Jihad would not have been possible. If we ceased depending on Mideast oil for our survival the global war on Jihadism would end successfully in less than 2 years.