Islamic Vision and the Iranian Achievement
Iran has made it clear that the coupling of Islam and low intellectual, scientific and technological achievement in the modern era has nothing to do with Islam but is the work of confused people.
While the Northern Muslim dominant states in Nigeria are known for being perpetually described as educationally disadvantaged, using that as a means of lowering standards to enable their people cheat other Nigerians for the same opportunities, entering the sane academic programs with abysmally lower marks, we have in Iran an Islamic nation that is proving itself as perhaps the most technologically advanced Islamic majority country in the world and the only country in the Middle East operating at that level without the help of the West, since Israel's success is closely tied to the West.
Instead of Nigeria's Muslim North to focus on accelerated development of their people they continue to cheat other Nigerians by in effect describing their people as being of lower intellectual capacity and achievement, requiring unfair advantage to even participate in national educational opportunities.
The whole thing is a scam.
Islamic culture has never been associated with intellectual or educational backwardness, in all aspects of knowledge, from the arts to philosophy to science.
What is known today as modern science and even Western philosophy has gained heavily from the Islamic achievement in the Arab and Persian worlds and even in Europe.
Those Muslims who see Western education and their faith as irreconcilable and yet use the military fruits of Western technology in trying to force people to toe their blind path should look at Iran and ask how an Islamic nation has become so feared by the West for its ideological independence and technological and military power.
How did they travel so far in nuclear technology?
The Israeli assassination of some of their nuclear scientists shows Israel recognizes Iran has a formidable scientific and technological intelligentsia driving the country forward, a human power force Israel and their US and other Western allies want to decapitate.
How did they develop such a critical mass of scientists?
What can be learnt from Iran about national ideological and geopolitical independence and intellectual, scientific and technological achievement and military empowerment on a national scale?
-- Iran has made it clear that the coupling of Islam and low intellectual, scientific and technological achievement in the modern era has nothing to do with Islam but is the work of confused people.
While the Northern Muslim dominant states in Nigeria are known for being perpetually described as educationally disadvantaged, using that as a means of lowering standards to enable their people cheat other Nigerians for the same opportunities, entering the sane academic programs with abysmally lower marks, we have in Iran an Islamic nation that is proving itself as perhaps the most technologically advanced Islamic majority country in the world and the only country in the Middle East operating at that level without the help of the West, since Israel's success is closely tied to the West.
Instead of Nigeria's Muslim North to focus on accelerated development of their people they continue to cheat other Nigerians by in effect describing their people as being of lower intellectual capacity and achievement, requiring unfair advantage to even participate in national educational opportunities.
The whole thing is a scam.
Islamic culture has never been associated with intellectual or educational backwardness, in all aspects of knowledge, from the arts to philosophy to science.
What is known today as modern science and even Western philosophy has gained heavily from the Islamic achievement in the Arab and Persian worlds and even in Europe.
Those Muslims who see Western education and their faith as irreconcilable and yet use the military fruits of Western technology in trying to force people to toe their blind path should look at Iran and ask how an Islamic nation has become so feared by the West for its ideological independence and technological and military power.
How did they travel so far in nuclear technology?
The Israeli assassination of some of their nuclear scientists shows Israel recognizes Iran has a formidable scientific and technological intelligentsia driving the country forward, a human power force Israel and their US and other Western allies want to decapitate.
How did they develop such a critical mass of scientists?
What can be learnt from Iran about national ideological and geopolitical independence and intellectual, scientific and technological achievement and military empowerment on a national scale?
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