Dennis Prager writes consistently interesting columns. His latest makes the argument that Islamic morality is inferior to that of the West. He states that:
[E]very country that calls itself "Islamic" is morally inferior to just about every country in North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, almost every Asian country and many African countries.
At first this may cause an eyebrow to lift given the Western world's obscene greed, lasciviousness, and violence, and the Muslim's contrary emphasis on personal purity, but read his argument at the link and see if you don't agree that he makes a strong case.
I might want to take his thesis a step further and say that not only is Islamic morality inferior, so is Islamic culture. Since the 13th or 14th century the Muslim world has produced little or no great art, architecture or music, and it's literary efforts have been uneven.
They manufacture little that the world wants and produce only what Western technology and expertise is able to extract from the ground beneath them.
Their scientists have made no contributions to human well-being or knowledge since the middle ages.
Indeed, their single genius seems to be in producing as leaders religious extremists skilled in thinking up ways to torture and kill both infidels and their fellow Muslims. Too much of Muslim culture seems based upon punishment, retribution and revenge. Until they can break out of this mind-set they will probably float through history, drifting from one war to another, while the rest of the world increases the cultural distance between it and them - that is, unless the Islamist extremists get their hands on the ultimate infidel-killer, nuclear weapons. If they do, then we'll all be thrown back into the 7th century. The difference will be that the remnants of Western civilization will start over and try to regain some of what has been lost. The Islamists will be content to stay where they are, killing each other.
It's tragic that what the Muslim world needs most they also seem most resistant to - the Gospel of forgiveness, grace, freedom, redemption, and love.
