So when the HBD-friendly community talks about Islam and terrorism, they make the obvious connections: Islam is a backward, violent religion. I don't deny it. I know that from Paris, New York, and London, to Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia, all the way to Southern Thailand/Phillipines, and Bali, Islam's borders have been violent, and we can point to the Koran and ant secular attitudes of the religion to blame.
But in the course of discussing the < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab"> recent Christmas terror plot, we've been missing out the role of IQ.
One, is the role of IQ in Yemen becoming a terror haven. Well, let's see:
This Slate article tries to get at it, and they largely succeed. Yemen is poor because of civil war, corruption, and economic mismanagement. And of course low oil reserves.
But they also ask a question:
Lebanon, for example, generates six times as much wealth with no oil at all. How did Yemen get so poor?
Hmmm, just look at the Lebanese diaspora. Lebanese dominate tons of businesses in Africa with a tiny population. The world's richest man at one point was of Lebanese descent, a first generation immigrant in Mexico.
But anyway, does anyone ask WHY Lebanon is so corrupt and mismanaged? Well, let's look at a basic indicator: Average IQ and corruption index!
Top 5 least corrupt countries and their and their average IQ :
1 New Zealand 100
2 Denmark 98
3 Singapore 103
3 Sweden 101
5 Switzerland 101
And the bottom 5:
176 Iraq 87
176 Sudan 72
178 Myanmar 87
179 Afghanistan 84
180 Somalia 68
I'm shock and appalled. Yawn.
This should make us think long and hard about our overseas. post up. Shouldn't the failure of our previous policies in Afghanistan and Iraq make us think a little harder about imagining utopia in other countries?
We are all not the same.
Anyway, I've been profiled before. You learn to deal with it.
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This is a dubious and ignorant post. I.Q. tests such as these for nations have been widely panned by the majority of the scientific community. IQ tests certainly are not universal and have cultural biases among other flaws to having standard IQ tests worldwide, least of all the varied economic, and educational situations in each country. Using IQ to bolster your argument is a racists way of hiding behind pseudoscience. Not a very good hiding spot.
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