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Is It True That Nine Of The Ten Most Corrupt Countries Are Islamic?

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Alan: Europe emerged from the Dark Ages when western scholars turned to the vast body of knowledge preserved and developed during The Islamic Golden Age. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age  

Notably, the world's first university was founded in 859 A.D. by a Moroccan woman, Fatima al-Fihri. 
http://collegestats.org/articles/2009/12/top-10-oldest-universities-in-the-world-ancient-colleges/ 

I conjecture that the dilapidated state of contemporary Islamic nations is due to the displacement of "open inquiry scholarship" by an epistemological shutdown wrought by a wave of Islamic scriptural literalism much like the biblical literalism that first infected Christian nations during the late 19th century. 

"The History of Biblical Literalism" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-history-of-biblical-literalism.html



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