1. Drug Cartels of Mexico do not push a religious regime as I understand Taliban of Afghanistan do.
2. Overall, it just happens that scientific pursuit to be a more difficult task in Muslim world, isn't it? I'm not comparing here Islam with Christianity, I compare Islam with (almost) everything else.
3. You may have a point with Saudi Arabia, but let's take Iran (which is or should be politically more solid). They have a democratic (therefore questionable) president, but they also have an unquestionable "supreme leader" which is incidentally a religious authority. What does this say?
4. I agree with Eurocentric worldview. Our powers in state (in Eastern Europe), including media, is very oriented to western world and often ignores even our own views (not to mention something from elsewhere). This is nevertheless a consequence of what's happening "out there" and how it affects one's life. I guess that if say development is done heavily somewhere in east, it would demand more attention.
5. You are right, not everything is the same. Not even Christianity itself. Not to praise or something, but I never heard of prosecutions for scientific research in Orthodox Christianity.
2. Overall, it just happens that scientific pursuit to be a more difficult task in Muslim world, isn't it? I'm not comparing here Islam with Christianity, I compare Islam with (almost) everything else.
3. You may have a point with Saudi Arabia, but let's take Iran (which is or should be politically more solid). They have a democratic (therefore questionable) president, but they also have an unquestionable "supreme leader" which is incidentally a religious authority. What does this say?
4. I agree with Eurocentric worldview. Our powers in state (in Eastern Europe), including media, is very oriented to western world and often ignores even our own views (not to mention something from elsewhere). This is nevertheless a consequence of what's happening "out there" and how it affects one's life. I guess that if say development is done heavily somewhere in east, it would demand more attention.
5. You are right, not everything is the same. Not even Christianity itself. Not to praise or something, but I never heard of prosecutions for scientific research in Orthodox Christianity.