DAR AL HARB/ISLAM: AN ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE, CIRCA 21ST CENTURY

Muslim nations urged to create new 'Golden Age of Islam'

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia, Indonesia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan challenged Islamic countries Monday to work together to create a new golden age to liberate Muslims from poverty, conflict and extremism.

The five nations told an Islamic conference that many of the 1.6 billion Muslims globally rank among the world's poorest people with an international reputation that has been tarnished by false perceptions that most support terrorism.

"We are now at a crossroads in our history as an ummah (Muslim community). Never in the history of the ummah ... have we faced such great odds," Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told government officials, corporate executives and analysts attending the World Islamic Economic Forum.

"While the nations of the West basked in the glory of their global ascendancy, Muslim nations were largely consigned to what people term 'the Third World,'" Abdullah said.

He noted that the 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference accounted for only 5 percent of world's gross domestic product in 2005 despite comprising 21 percent of the global population.

Abdullah said Muslim nations must take bold measures such as investing heavily in education. He cited the examples of his own country, which spent 8 percent of its gross domestic product on education in 2004, and the United Arab Emirates, which recently announced a US$10 billion (€7.4 billion) endowment for investments in education across Arab countries.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who leads the world's most populous Muslim country, said Islamic nations can work "as a collective force" for their own development because they currently supply 70 percent of the world's energy requirements and 40 percent of raw material exports globally.

"We in the Islamic ummah can achieve true solidarity among ourselves ... and reclaim the eminence that (we) enjoyed in the Golden Age of Islam," Yudhoyono said.

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Nope, you can't...Not unless you are able to completely dhimmify the West...The 'islamic golden age' was able to come to pass because of jihad & conquests of non-muslims...

If you would like to read just a tad more by the pre-eminent historian on dhimmitude & the effects of it on non-muslim populations please read the following:

Debating Islam’s “Golden Age”

And just in case you are still of the opinion that jihad/islamic terrorism is not rooted in islam, you may want to read here and here.

I want no part of an "Islamic Golden Age" circa 21st century...



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