Christians, Muslims, Tribalism

How the Church engineered paganism out of Western Europeans and Christianity into them:
https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/whatever-happened-to-european-tribes/


The rather impressive theological reasoning behind de-tribing the peoples:
https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/st-augustine-and-st-thomas-aquinas/


Inbreeding in Christian countries vs. Muslim countries today (I commented on this one belatedly):
https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/inbreeding-and-natl-iq/


It seems that the Arabs have infected most of the Muslim world with their form of tribalism, since Arabs always have had comparatively high status among Muslims and often were emulated. Consequent upon this, tribally organized societies have difficulty forming nation-states. Their peoples' loyalties are elsewise engaged: by strong family, clan, and tribal identities. Islam, being a warlike religion, does little in practice to counter this tendency and unite its adherents, except when opportunity arises for jihad against infidels. Such fine social subdivisions also diminish potential for commercial development: the wealthiest Islamic country lacking major oil resources is probably Turkey or Malaysia. Both have Mexican levels of per capita GDP, and only attain that height due to multiple special advantages. The Turks are at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, are NATO members, have some of the lowest inbreeding rates of Muslim nations, were unusually secular in their governance for 80 years, haven't fought a significant war is almost 100 years, and, until recently, were making aggressive efforts to gain admittance to the EU. The Malaysians have a large non-Muslim Chinese minority (20+%) who develop and sustain its commerce, enough oil/natural gas production to supply itself and do some exporting, a geographic position in a peaceful and rapidly growing part of the world, and a tradition of moderate Islamic beliefs.