Comments by "Rita Gameiro" (@puraLusa) on "Why Are Muslim Countries Poorer? - VisualEconomik EN" video.

When it comes to places such as north africa complaining of colonialism is hilarious cause they say it as if they weren't colonialist themselves. And yeah, having an outside guilty party is a very smart deflection of self-criticism.
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@badluck5647 not really cause there are places that have been shaking it off pretty darn well - botswana, singapoor. It isn't 1 rule fits all. The difference here is that spain didn't get it's independance in the middle of a cold war where the players chose spain as the hot spot.
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Actually no, the industrial age had women as 2nd class citizens and it didn't stop europe from developing. Most of women equality comes from post-industrialism with the pill.
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The video does not aproach modern time countries but the historical context of why there was a huge loss of gdp from ummayads to ottoman empire - the asean countries aren't even in the story.
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The pill was the ultimate women liberator.
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Feudalism is prohibited but slavery is not. The problem isn't islamic jurisprudence but the manner in which is applied cause the laws are written by humans even islamic one as they go by how the mulemas interpret the scripture. Also, the whole ottoman empire was a conglomerate of provinces, each full of internal warfare and that is exactly cause power wasn't inherited, producing successive political crisis. The ottomans themselves had a time where fratricide was the norm!!! The profet never left an organized form of governance nor a legislation compendium with defined articles.
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@mistermood4164 slavery was an intern institution well accepted by most civilizations. It was from the uk that the 1st intern lobby against slavery was founded. It was from a christian country that a war against slavery was declared. To no avail, albeit intern illegal, slavery is still prevalent. Japanese weren't abrahamic but had slaves, chinese weren't abrahamic but had slaves, astechs weren't abrahamic but had slaves. Enslavement was the rule everywhere.
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@mistermood4164 that's a mith. Interest is what makes a loan possible. Many people were able to increse their assets and be richer because of it. Example: all the business that start as a small company with a small loan. The loan is payed in a few years and the buisness owner enjoys his work. The people who don't like interest and considers it unethical, does so due to political and religious afiliation. Slavery is when someone abducts and makes the hostage work against his will - no contract- for free.
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That's stupid - the first cities were built in the mena region 😂
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@mayazmahmud1740 great in comparisson to europe - yes cause europe was hellhole. But great in comparisson to present day most places, definatelly not. People have a tendency to romanticize the past - slavery was a commonality in the same middle east that had it's golden age - the slaves weren't great, they were suffering.
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When the saudis started having money they started buying cars and other luxury items, a bunch of imams and more traditional tribesman got very upset by the use of such progress in saudi land. This story explains why there was never a cleaver adaptation of the whole banking sistem sooner than latter. Traditionalism can happen in any culture but when in extreme political power it produces stagnation - see the dudes who live in usa and drive carrages cause cars are of the devil. In another dimension the mulemas and political powerful famillies could have found halal banking sooner and make jump then. The ottomans could have not forbidden the printing press and invest more on literacy. It wouldn't make it less islamic as it would be done according to culture and religion just not as stagnant as it was.
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Basicly everyone colonized everyone 😂
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U went straight into defending religion and haven't even trully digested the video and what it proposes 😂
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That's exactly what the video explains.
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@Omer1996E.C and before that u followed whatever was decided for u as if it was god himself speaking. Islamic law can be many different things according to many different interpretations - which makes it very easy to pick and choose. Making contracts not good evidence is a bad principle as it makes one own word worthless. Having a justice preferential sistem of one group over another (discrimination hello!) doesn't help either - these are very good basis of a society prone to corruption. And these are just 2 mentioned in the video that is extremely superficial.
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😂 That's such a good point.
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It's tasteless and polilitically improper.
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Indonesia is a conglomerate of islands - which makes it much harder in infrastructure investment. It's my opinion that the rulling class decision of moving the capital city will have dire consequences. Rio de janeiro was much better before brasilia was built to be the new political capital and it's one of the factors that made rio so full of organized crime.
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Introducing soviets influence here and their export of: a proposed sistem with a totalitarian centralized govern imposing rules upon everyone else with total disregard to religion or culture. What can possibly go wrong? 😂
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@andeezaima319 yup, ottomans blocking the press is a big evidence of that.
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A number of factors: strong feudalism, money from colonies and not much of a competing rulling class as spain, south italy and portugal were pretty much scarcely populated being worst in spain and portugal cause inquisition and poorer farming soil. To add to the party the north africans loved to raid the sea side towns (were most of the pop lived) for slaves. As soon as the vikings turned christians and stoped raiding north and north west europe achieved a certain stability and a better context for development of new ideas - something south europe didn't have.
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