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Will Europe's increasing Islamic population help it become more scientifically and technologically advanced and help it societally adjust to these changes? The [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]] upset a lot of Muslims when he said the provocative and true statement: "All the world's Muslims have fewer [[Nobel Prize]]s than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the [[Middle Ages]], though."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/richard-dawkins-tweets-islam-muslim-nobel Richard Dawkins' tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an extremist Muslim cleric] by Nesrine Malik, ''The Guardian'', 2013</ref>

Will Europe's increasing Islamic population help it become more scientifically and technologically advanced and help it societally adjust to these changes? The [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]] upset a lot of Muslims when he said the provocative and true statement: "All the world's Muslims have fewer [[Nobel Prize]]s than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the [[Middle Ages]], though."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/richard-dawkins-tweets-islam-muslim-nobel Richard Dawkins' tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an extremist Muslim cleric] by Nesrine Malik, ''The Guardian'', 2013</ref>

In his book ''The Irrational [[Atheism|Atheist]]'', [[Vox Day]] wrote:

The book ''The Irrational [[Atheism|Atheist]]'' notes:

{{Cquote|It’s also interesting to note that more than half of these religious wars, sixty-six in all, were waged by [[Islam]]ic nations, which is rather more than might be statistically expected considering that the first war in which Islam was involved took place almost three millennia after the first war chronicled in the ''Encyclopedia'', Akkad’s conquest of Sumer in 2325 B.C.

{{Cquote|It’s also interesting to note that more than half of these religious wars, sixty-six in all, were waged by Islamic nations, which is rather more than might be statistically expected considering that the first war in which Islam was involved took place almost three millennia after the first war chronicled in the ''Encyclopedia'', Akkad’s conquest of Sumer in 2325 B.C.

In light of this evidence, the fact that a specific religion is currently sparking a great deal of

In light of this evidence, the fact that a specific religion is currently sparking a great deal of conflict around the globe cannot reasonably be used to indict all religious faith, especially when one considers that removing that single religion from the equation means that all of the other religious faiths combined only account for 3.35 percent of humanity’s wars.<ref>[https://www.chcpublications.net/IrrationalAtheist.pdf - Abbreviated free copy on the book The Irrational Atheist PDF]</ref>}}

conflict around the globe cannot reasonably be used to indict all religious faith, especially when one

considers that removing that single religion from the equation means that all of the other religious

faiths combined only account for 3.35 percent of humanity’s wars.<ref>[http://www.voxday.net/mart/TIA_free.pdf The Irrational Atheist - Abbreviated free copy on PDF]</ref>}}

The eminent [[sociology|sociologist]] [[Peter L. Berger]] wrote about the bloody borders of many Islamic nations:

The eminent [[sociology|sociologist]] [[Peter L. Berger]] wrote about the bloody borders of many Islamic nations: