Islamic World sans Oil will look like Today’s Pakistan
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Feb 12, 2023
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Summary
Pakistan is on the brink of default. Its foreign exchange reserves has fallen to $2.9 billion, barely enough to cover two weeks of export. Ideal FOREX Reserve is the amount required to cover three months of exports. Its sovereign debt has soured to $ 100 billion with debt to GDP ratio as high as 70%. Inflation has climbed to 30%, so common masses are finding it difficult to procure essential goods such as food, fuel and medicine. Essential items are gradually becoming scarce. Due to low FOREX it has not been able to open LCs, so about 8000 containers with essential items such as onion and raw materials for manufacturing medicines are docked on ports and thus these essentials could not be delivered to the needy. Factories are gradually closing down for want of raw material and dollar. Pakistani rupee is in free fall after deregulation so it has fallen to PKR 272 a dollar.
Now let us take an overview of Indian economy. According to IMF, “India is the only bright star among the emerging economies”. Now let us look at some parameters-India’s Foreign Exchange Reserves has climbed to about $ 577 billion, inflation has been tamed to 6% and dollar to Indian rupee is almost stable to Rs 82 a dollar. India’s growth rate is pegged at about 6%. Mean while the country has become 5th largest economy in the world pushing Great Britain to 6th spot.
It is strange that the two countries gained independence from foreign rule at almost about the same time, but India went far ahead of Pakistan, as far as economy is concerned. It may not be relevant here but one is tempted to remind that India’s global status has also become giant comparing to Pakistan’s. Both the countries inherited equally fertile land, had almost comparable industrial and military infrastructure. So both were at equal footing, when they started their journey after independence. But what a contradiction! India has been able to feed its 80 Crore population for free , continuously for four years while, on the other hand due to shortage of food, three persons have lost their lives, in an effort to grab the packet of subsidized food.
One thing to be noted is that till very recently, Pakistan was not in a very bad position, both politically and economically. Then, why this change in fortune? The answer lies in the fact that till recently, Pakistan was very well in playing the balancing act with super powers. It had, in fact become a client state of USA and was an arm of USA in the cold war against USSR. The invasion of Afghanistan by Russia was a golden opportunity for Pakistan when US dollar was flowing to Pakistan. This flow of dollar was accelerated with the rise of Osama bin Laden and his attack on the US twin towers. Pakistan very aptly exploited the situation. It played the dual game. On the one hand it pretended to be with USA in its war against terrorism while on the other hand it trained and nurtured Taliban. The killing of Osama bin Laden by USA in a residence which was situated near a military cantonment in Rawalpindi under the protection of Pakistan's military establishment proved this beyond doubt. This dual policy of Pakistan was reinforced by the statement of Imran Khan when USA left Afghanistan. He said, “The Afghans have broken the shackles of slavery”.
USA tolerated all this due to Pakistan’s geostrategic importance but one tweet by US President Donald Trump on first January 2018, “the US has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe heaven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan with little help. No more!” changed the fortune of the country. The US also withhold more than 250 million dollar in aid to Islamabad. Thus Pakistan’s dual policy had annoyed the USA and the west so it is not getting donation now, due to its policy of Al -Taquiya (Religiously sanctioned principle of cheating non Muslims in every possible way).
Now let us have a look at the Islamic world. By god's grace it has plenty of oil and natural gas so the Islamic countries, their number being 57 are super reach due to this natural resource but if you remove this advantage bestowed upon these countries by providence, what their condition is? There is almost no research and no new invention. Every new technology is borrowed from the west. None of the universities situated in the Islamic countries of the world figure among top universities of the world. Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia, the de facto ruler of the kingdom has understood this and is very vehemently trying to change this. He is planning to bring his University among the top universities of the world. He is also trying to have Saudi Arabia a new state of the art, town by 2030, by which is trying to bring major change to the kingdom. He has given some freedom to the ladies of the Kingdom. But will he be able to bring any drastic change to his country? Following a religious philosophy which does not give proper right to ladies, as they are considered to be an article of materialistic pleasure, thinking of them as having brain half of that of gents, not giving them freedom of walking and talking and dressing freely is that which makes half population of the Islamic world as non participant in the development process. Going for prayer every two three hours distracts a man as he can't devote whole heartedly to his work. Overemphasis on religious practices distracts a person from developmental activities. Animosity for non-Muslims, which is deeply imbedded in their religious philosophy, is also one of the distractions. The feeling of religious superiority bars them from learning from kaafirs. To understand this one can compare the whole Islamic world with just one tiny nation i.e Israel, whom they are bent upon eliminating from the map of the world.
Followers of Islam hugely take pride in their ancient knowledge of science, math and medicine but all this knowledge have come from the Hindus and propagated to the Islamic world, be it medicine, math or science. There was no original thinker in the Arabian world. Had original minds flourished in Arabia they would not have come to India to gain knowledge.
Let us now re focus on the growth story of India. Due to the restraining religious philosophy as mentioned above, focus on religious education and over emphasis on coloring the whole world as green, Muslims are not in the fore front of modern education, technology and research. So it is Hindus (the filthy kaafirs as per their religious belief ) who are driving the Indian economy. Hindus have done this before when till the arrival of Muslim invaders in India, it had 90% share in the world GDP. Now Hindu's are in the process of repeating this miracle again. In a way, India’s time has arrived.
So Hinduism is the only hope for the world, as Islamic world without oil will certainly look like today’s Pakistan due to their inherent flawed religious philosophy.