Backwardness

Our Arabian countries are lagged in every useful and great field. The freedom of expression and democracy do not exist. Satisfaction of ego is dominant. The percentage of the illiterates is the highest in our regions. Almost half of Arab women still cannot read or write! Our Productivity is declining. Researches and development are nonexistent or just so weak. Science and technology are dormant.

Our valuable and absolutely genuine language is getting worthless. The translations of foreign books into Arabic lag far behind figures in the rest of the world: five times more books are translated every year in Greek whereas they are just 11 million. Only 53 newspapers per 1,000 citizens are published daily in the region, in the contrast, 285 papers per 1,000 people in the developed nations, and there are just 18 computers per 1,000 citizens in the Arab world, as compared to the global average of 78 per 1,000.

We are still standing at the same level nothing new deserves mentioning nothing have been achieved during previous decades. We are like living in a light but with totally closed eyes. We own everything physical but without high spirits. Our societies are just like bodies without souls, heads without brains.

We got burdened from silly and vicious clashes between us like the regional war on Saudi Arabia boarders and Yemen, football matches conflicts which generate antipathy between our nations. The heavy rains made our streets just like piles of dust; Egyptians keep authorizing kind of funny and silly fatwas to serve their desires. We are inheriting traditions more than our religion. We are still living in an apartheid era.

We are incompetent to have a control and solution even in our countries. The Palestinian issue is still transforming from bad situation to the worst and it’s like that issue is out of our hands.We did not object the name that got attached on us” The Third World Countries”. We just keep consuming more than producing, we still have lack in access to the knowledge, and we do not appreciate and support great minds like what advanced nations do awarding “noble Prize”. Their success just speaks for itself, they pursuit of their goals by astoundingly and impressive professional ways.We inhabit in absolute stagnation! There are no justifications for what we are in. We have everything, the best religion, great principles, great minds, wealth …ect but unfortunately no achievements.

I’m wondering what the main reason of our backwardness is? Is it because people just start getting away from our Islamic religion? Does imitating the negative side in advanced nations and moving wherever the wind blows plays a rule in our backwardness reason? Could we suppose the rejection of any constructive criticizing to satisfy our ego a main reason? I always wonder what is behind depriving us from our rights what’s wrong in making demonstration against any new verdict! Why our politics can’t hear us like any other countries do! Why any kind of demonstration is just rejected plus the demonstrator cruelly berated to make that kind of hard treatment as a moral so no one can object or speak anymore? Should we blame our silence or it’s just out of our hands? Could we do something worthy one day?

Wish we get the days of the Islamic prosperity progressiveness back one day and wish we named soon something much better than either Third World Countries or even advanced nations something that means the ability to change the world to the best so it just stop that absolute farce.