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It works for the USA. Witness the over 70 illegal invasions since WWII.

By 'humanities' you mean "Islam". If you think you can dispute my statement with more than smarmy, fatuous words I invite you to do so. The fact is that Islam decided back around 1100 that nothing mattered but Islam. And their education reflects that. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. The top rated university in the Muslim world is ... 640th, I believe, from Malaysia. You wouldn't know this, of course, because you are almost entirely ignorant of everything and anything to do with Islam. Your sole interest is that they are 'brown' people, thus requiring social justice warriors like yoursefl to rush to defend them from even the merest hint of a disrespectful comment. Today, however, the spirit of science in the Muslim world is as dry as the desert. Pakistani physicist Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy laid out the grim statistics in a 2007 Physics Today article: Muslim countries have nine scientists, engineers, and technicians per thousand people, compared with a world average of forty-one. In these nations, there are approximately 1,800 universities, but only 312 of those universities have scholars who have published journal articles. Of the fifty most-published of these universities, twenty-six are in Turkey, nine are in Iran, three each are in Malaysia and Egypt, Pakistan has two, and Uganda, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, and Azerbaijan each have one. There are roughly 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, but only two scientists from Muslim countries have won Nobel Prizes in science (one for physics in 1979, the other for chemistry in 1999). Forty-six Muslim countries combined contribute just 1 percent of the world’s scientific literature; Spain and India each contribute more of the world’s scientific literature than those countries taken together. In fact, although Spain is hardly an intellectual superpower, it translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years. “Though there are talented scientists of Muslim origin working productively in the West,” Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg has observed, “for forty years I have not seen a single paper by a physicist or astronomer working in a Muslim country that was worth reading.” Comparative metrics on the Arab world tell the same story. Arabs comprise 5 percent of the world’s population, but publish just 1.1 percent of its books, according to the U.N.’s 2003 Arab Human Development Report. Between 1980 and 2000, Korea granted 16,328 patents, while nine Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E., granted a combined total of only 370, many of them registered by foreigners. A study in 1989 found that in one year, the United States published 10,481 scientific papers that were frequently cited, while the entire Arab world published only four. This may sound like the punch line of a bad joke, but when Nature magazine published a sketch of science in the Arab world in 2002, its reporter identified just three scientific areas in which Islamic countries excel: desalination, falconry, and camel reproduction. http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science

So I mean endless dogfights while I say "discuss" or offering personal and sided considerations as being facts. This is stupid and no reasonable persons would act in this way. We can only share informations and we can search for informations.

Yes, OK. I just read it again. I like the idea of information exchange. I agree.

If you want to know other people, you have to ask questions expecting a reply which includes an information. This is not discuss but this is information exchange. You need to read the first post again, appearently you didnt read it or you dont try to understand despite its quite clear.

That is the same kind of sentiment I share. Although the wording of islamophobia is so loosely defined to create that platform to attack all muslims.

I doubt that's the reason. Trump came into the POTUS job without any political experience. He is growing in the job and I'm sure he's now realizing the magnitude of his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief. Seeing as Canada largely relies on the US for its defence, I wish him well.

This is not just a Chinese or American responsibility. What ever happened to all the much heralded Canadian "soft power", "honest brokering", and "peacekeeping" prowess ? What are other nations willing to sacrifice besides peanut gallery cheering ?

And how do you have an academic, scientific discussion with someone whose religious beliefs teach them that an entire race of people should die? I have no interest in even debating with you or Altai on that topic. If you want to agree with her that all Israeli children are future murders and criminals....knock yourself out.