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Many of us have beliefs and dreams. I remember the times of Communism, when western leftists (I was one of them) said: “Sure, the Soviet Union and China are communist, but they are not on the right way of organizing a socialist society.” In those years, there wasn’t a single communist country around the world that could feed its people.

Today’s Muslims voice a similar argument. They often say: “Sure, Islamists aren’t true believers, true forms of Islam aren’t practiced in that country” or so.

Well, this might be so. But let’s have a look at the facts. Let’s look at the “real existing Islam,” “Islamic” countries that are either dominated by Islam, or have at least a population share of some 50 % Muslim population.

Have a look at the ‘Fund for Peace’ website, http://www.fundforpeace.org/web/, a non-governmental organization that studies and characterizes countries in the following way:

“ Quote: Country Profiles provide the public with insight into why a country received the score it did on the Failed States Index. They also include some analysis of change from the previous year. In addition to the social, economic and political/military indicators analyzed as part of the Failed States Index, we include a brief analysis of the core state institutions, which measures the capacity of the state to cope with pressures identified by the indicators. There is also a short prognosis for each country as well as recommendations. Unquote”

Based on such analysis, the ‘Fund for Peace’ has come up with a ‘Failed State Index,’ and also characterizes countries in four categories: red, orange, yellow green.

In the 2007 listing, we see the following:
Red zone, failed states:

Numbers: 1 – 32
Worst in class: Sudan, Islamic
Best in class: Niger, Islamic
Number of Islamic-dominated states: 18 out of 32

Orange zone/serious trouble brewing:

Numbers: 33 – 129
Worst in class: Colombia
Best in class: Bahamas
Number of Islamic-dominated states: 28 out of 96

Yellow zone, warnings:

Numbers: 130 – 162
Worst in class: Barbados (130)
Best in class: Portugal (162)
Number of Islamic-dominated states: 4 out of 32
United States of America = 160th

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Green zone - fully functioning:

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Numbers: 163 – 177
Worst in class: Netherlands (163)
Best in class: Norway (177)
Number of Islamic-dominated states: None
Canada = 168th

This simple statistics shows: “The real existing Islam” is a state of mind that belongs to the doomed and failed states. It defines more than 50% of all failed states. More “real existing Islam” = more failure and doom.

What characterizes the exceptional orange and yellow (there aren’t any green) Islamic countries? Essentially three factors:

- Exceptional resources (such as oil etc) in respect of population size;
- And/or a relatively modern, tolerant form of Islam;
- And/or strong non-Islamic minority (the Chinese in Malaysia, for instance), endowed with exceptional skills and work ethics (and doing the job of the remainder).

Enough said.

© 2007 by Franz L Kessler