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2011-06-22 Bangladesh

Bangladesh retains Islam as state religion

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The reason Bangladesh is so much more orderly than Pakistan is because it is ethnically Bengali, unlike Pakistan, that is Punjabi (42%), Pashtun (17.5%), Sindhi (14%), and Other (24%).

Bengali, though often Muslim, are more Indian in character than Persian or Arabic. The are the second largest ethnic group in the world, after Han Chinese, with heterogeneous ethnic origins.

Unfortunately, Bangladesh has been cursed with the twin devils of socialism and Islam. If it could overcome these two monstrosities, and embrace a modern, secular path, it could quickly become the breadbasket of southern Asia, with a very high standard of living.

This is because being the Ganges River delta, their farmland is so rich, P.J. O'Rourke wrote that, if you stick your foot in it, you will grow more toes.

But other nations, deeply afraid of the agricultural competition, paid its socialist government a pittance in foreign aid, in exchange for which they agreed to only grow the worthless fiber plant known as jute.

And most of that "foreign aid" was wasted on an enormous government bureaucracy that is larger, per capita, than that of the United States. With their largest government agency being "The Department of Jute".

Eventually, we can hope that they will overcome the perverse social limitations of Islam, which they might very well do, unlike their damned half-brother Pakistan.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-06-22 11:16|| 2011-06-22 11:16|| Front Page Top

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