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=== News Update ===
Dr Javed Jamil’s “Muslims Most Civilised” series triggers international internet Debate
By Syed Adil
An interesting heated debate is going on these days in response to a long series of articles by the renowned scholar, Dr Javed Jamil entitled, “Despite Shortcomings, Muslims are Most Civilised”. In this series, Dr Jamil has produced massive statistics showing that in terms of the criteria of civilized existence, Western countries are far behind Muslim countries. He has used the following as the criteria of civilization:
- Security: incidence of murders (all types, not any particular category), sexual assaults, killings in other parts of the world (wars), abortions (all categories)
- Social peace: alcohol, gambling, prostitution, promiscuity, pornography,
- Personal: suicides, religiosity
- Family: Divorces and separations, Promiscuity, Children born out of wedlock, issues related to single parenthood; abuse of women and children; domestic violence;
- Human Development: Life Expectancy (both at birth and at conception), Education, Economic conditions
Taking one criterion in each chapter as the yardstick, he has produced international statistics to prove how bad the West is in terms of Security, Social Peace, Personal Happiness, Family Peace and Human Development. Muslims in comparison are far better on the basis of almost all criteria related to security, Social peace and family peace and are catching fast in the human development criteria including life expectancy, education and economic development.
The study has attracted huge debate on several yahoogroups including worldmuslimcongress, aplacefortruth, indianmuslims, NRI, Multiculturalism-Pluralism, GRP and thegoodindians. Several international websites have also published the articles from the series.
