Every country depends on oil.
How about Pakistan being the Muslim superpower or Saudi Arabia.
They are much better candidates.
@Iqbal Ali by depending on oil,I meant depending on oil export revenues
Saudi Arabia---A Big Noooo as they have little intellectual tradition, and their youth are not hardworking
Pakistan--------Let's see..Very interesting candidate..
Good Points
1) The Indo-Aryan component of their population place huge emphasis on education and rationality..They have the good ability on seeing every worldly matter through the prism of rationality,scientific materialism, plausibility and only a narrow band of religious matters through the prism of mysticism/magical thinking..That allows them to get stuff done..Prime example..their Indo-Aryan scientist AQ Khan who was grounded in this worldly rationality even though a small chunk of his mind was occupied by religious thinking........This level of mental gymnastics is commendable but ultimately is over taxation of limited human intelligence.
2) Meat heavy diet, which helps Genetic IQ reach full potential in adulthood
Bad Points
1) Cousin Marriage is severely depressing their IQ..I believe they should be on average 88
instead of the 84 now. 4 points is a massive difference.
2) Their smart fraction ..the people with 2 Standard Deviation IQ above the average are immigrating permanently abroad....If Pakistan can retain all their above 114-115 IQ talent, they have a fair chance
These would be the top 2% of the population
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If they can emphasize on their good points and iron out their bad points, they have as good chance as any Muslim country to be the sole Islamic superpower in the world
