Islam is successful in the 80 IQ range. Islamic civ averages 84. We presume that

Islam is successful in the 80 IQ range. Islamic civ averages 84. We presume that both christianity (90s) and aristotelianism (modern western thought, 100s) is sufficient for populations of (a) lower neotenic evolution (b) lower impulse regulation, and (c) lower IQ that can compensate for lower impulse regulation. But it’s not.
Islam’s excessive use of ritual and repetition in a public forum substitutes for self regulation, and obedience substitutes for learning. It’s also a religion of irresponsibility, which is quite the opposite of christianity, and utterly opposed to the western tradition both pre-and-post-christian. The western tradition is reducible to the institutionalization of the maximization of individual responsibility.
That’s why other people’s can’t do it (other than the japanese and koreans). It requires neoteny, iq, and continous institutional reinforcement.

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