| Q. | Why is Malaysia and Singapore doing so much better than Indonesia? | Related Search:
Other - Politics & Government | | | These are the same people, Malayan and Chinese, However, Indonesia is by far lagging behind in providing welfare for its people. It is such a difference walking around in Kuala Lumpur or Singapore compared to Jakarta, Surabaya or Makassar. It is the dirt, the lack of services, the quality of the museums and public services in general, the restaurants, the cafés. Could the way of government cause the difference? Indonesia experienced a dictatorship for 33 years with numerous victims. During that period, and even now, the role of the army is supreme. Corruption has expanded without any check. There was hardly a critical press. There has been decent changes of government in both Malaysia and Singapore without the shedding of blood. Neither Malaysia nor Singapore have gone to the extent of invading and occupying neighbouring states like Indonesia did in 1962 with West Papua and in 1975 with Portuguese Timor. Maybe also education is a factor.
| | A. | Education is the factor - for a people to escape the cycle of poverty.
According to Paul Collier, the factors that trap a country into poverty are: civil war (Indonesia had Banda Aceh), the "resource curse" (Indonesia's lumber), landlocked (not a factor for Indonesia), and bad governance (Indonesia's military). | | | |
| Q. | anyone living in jhorebahru malaysia near kim teng park i need some infoon area? | Related Search:
Friends | | | looking for people who lived there in 1962
| | A. | I wasnt even born then!!! | | | |
| Q. | The Islamic world had cordial relations with the United States up until the 1970s. What changed? | Related Search:
Politics | | | The Islamic world had cordial relations with the United States up until the 1970s. For example, during the Cold War, Pakistan sided with the USA (it had defence treaties with the USA), while predominantly Hindu India had a treaty of friendship with the USSR. Eisenhower was greatly admired throughout the Arab world for his diplomatic intervention in the Suez Canal crisis. The USA supplied arms and weapons the Saudi-Arabia, the Shah of Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia and Iraq. The USA enjoyed good relations with Malaysia and Morocco. In 1962, millions of Americans flocked to see "Lawrence of Arabia" and the ladies drooled over Omar Sharif. Turkey was a NATO member and an ally of the USA. Even as late as the 80s, the USA was supporting the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan. How did some segments of the Islamic world (not all, just some) become so bitter with the USA? Why did the the Iranians turn against the United States in 1979? It can't be Islam, because Islam was always there. I have researched this, but I'm trying to see if others have done their research as well.
For those who don't know about Operation Ajax, read this:
[Link] 
Ryunkin, I was aware that Omar Sharif was brought up a Catholic, but he converted to Islam in 1955. Good answer though.
| | A. | Relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world are and have been very complex. I recommend you read the book or watch the movie Charlie Wilsons' war which goes a long way to explain why we're having so much trouble in Afghanistan and why they don't like us. Also, with regard to U.S./Iranian relations you and the respondents so far have missed operation Ajax. That took place in 1954 and involved the c.i.a. takeover of the Iranian government that prevented it from nationalizing their oil supply and put the Shah in power. I believe that was the real motivation behind the hostage crisis of '79.
When it comes to the Middle East, the U.S. seems to be best at creating a never ending supply of enemies there. Sometimes I think that might have been the goal all along. The military industrial complex can make tons of money from perpetual war, and war is great for killing any progressive, humanitarian movement. | | | |
| Q. | Chevron should freeze investment in Myanmar or pull out, don't you think? | Related Search:
Current Events | | | US energy giant Chevron, French oil group Total and China's top oil producer, China National Petroleum Corporation, are among companies giving much-needed income to Burma, defying activists' calls to pull out.
France's Total SA and Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or
Petronas, pump gas from fields off Burma's coast through a
pipeline to Thailand, which takes 90per cent of Burma's gas
output...[Clearly] petroleum corporations offer economic support to the country's repressive junta, and in some cases are complicit in human rights abuses.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy last week urged his country's businesses, including Total, to freeze their investments in the impoverished nation, which has been ruled by the military since 1962
Source: The Australian, 1 Oct. 2007
| | A. | yes but maybe you should ask everyone to boycott them until then! | | | |
| Q. | Since the US is going broke shouldn't we consider doing more business with the commonwealth ? | Related Search:
Politics | | | 1981 Antigua and Barbuda
1931 Australia 1942.[7]
1973 Bahamas
1972 Bangladesh
1966 Barbados
1981 Belize
1966 Botswana
1984 Brunei
1995 Cameroon
1931 Canada
1961 Cyprus
1978 Dominica
1965 Gambia
1957 Ghana
1974 Grenada
1966 Guyana
1947 India
1962 Jamaica
1963 Kenya
1979 Kiribati
1966 Lesotho
1964 Malawi
1957 Malaysia
1982 Maldives
1964 Malta Flag
1968 Mauritius
1995 Mozambique
1990 Namibia
1968 Nauru
1931 New Zealand
1960 Nigeria
1947 Pakistan
1975 Papua New Guinea
1983 Saint Kitts
1979 Saint Lucia
1979 Saint Vincent
1970 Samoa Flag
1976 Seychelles
1961 Sierra Leone
1965 Singaporee
1978 Solomon Islands
1931 South Africa
1948 Sri Lanka
1968 Swaziland
1964 Tanzania
1970 Tonga
1962 Trinidad and Tobago
1978 Tuvalu
1962 Uganda
1931 United Kingdom
1980 Vanuatu
1964 Zambia
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Promote better ties - trade --- that sort of thing --?
Wouldn't that make more sense than the 11 billion dollar in debt nation bomb everyone in the world nation we have been doing business with ?
Should we consider strengthening our ties with the British Commonwealth in order to promote trade and lessen the impact the US is going to have when it collapses ?
Only members listed above are "in"
| | A. | Definitely trade should be expanded everywhere, including Cuba and Venezuela. It's also a good idea to establish trade with the British Commonwealth countries, because many of them are stable. There will have to be a cleaning up, because Bush created so many enemies with his imperialistic policies. | | | |
| Q. | Did nearly every European country colonize and subjugate a Muslim country within the last 100 years ? | Related Search:
Religion & Spirituality | | | Even then Christianity and the Bible did not spread !!!
France colonized Algeria --- 1830 to 1962
British colonized Muslim India --- 1858 to 1947
British colonized Egypt --- 1882 to 1922
Italy colonized Muslim Somalia & Ethiopia --- 1880 to 1960
British colonized Sudan -- 1898 to 1956
Spain colonized "Muslim S. Phillipines" -- 1521 to 1888
USA colonized Phillipines --- 1899 to 1934
Holland colonized Muslim
Denmark colonized Muslim
Portugal colonized Muslim
Belgium colonized Congo --
Netherlands colonized Malaysia and Indonesia
Map 1898 - [Link]
Map of colonies in 1945 = [Link]
| | A. | I've some doughs about Denmark (except when you talk about the Normans that trow out the OCCUPYING Muslims out of Malta). But these were Normans from Normandy.
I'm certain that Congo WAS NOT and is STILL NOT a Muslim country. Most of the Congolese were animist (believed in different gods), were there was Muslim influence this came from the slaveholders who were certainly worse than every European country that colonised somewhere.
You could as easy say that Congo before the colonisation by the Belgians was catholic because of some Portugese trading posts at the coast. | | | |
| Q. | Why did these Muslim-majority countries? | Related Search:
Ramadan | | | grant the vote to women before Switzerland?
Switzerland only granted women the right to vote in 1971
North Yemen (1970)
South Yemen (1967)
Afghanistan (1965)
Sudan (1964)
Libya (1964)
Morocco (1963)
Iran (1963)
Algeria (1962)
Mauritania (1961)
Sierra Leone (1961)
The Gambia (1960)
Tunisia (1959)
Brunei (1959)
Guinea (1958)
Burkina Faso (1958)
Malaysia (1957)
Egypt (1956)
Mali (1956)
Comoros (1956)
Iraq (1948)
Niger (1948)
Djibouti (1946)
Pakistan (1947)
@ homosensual,
They ruined their own rep without my help : ) I didn't thumbs you down btw.
| | A. | Some people think rubbery cheese with holes in it is the greater crime, but I take your point.
It is not fashionable to favourably compare Islamic states with good old fashioned capitalist prejudices as exercised by the land of the free... and others.
I think though, that this is a little known fact rather than a serious argument supporting the cause of women's equality. The fact is, pretty well all societies discriminate against women in blatant and inexcusable ways. | | | |
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