I have gone through an article written by Dr.Asghar Ali Engineer.I truely agreed to his opionion.The causes of Backwardnes are according to him

1-Lack of investment in education sector,it is not more than 2 percent of their GDP

2-LacK of investment on technolology.Even the richest muslim state rely upon US west technology rather acquiring them or establishing a university.Any scientist that arose from MUslim Umah is only because of his personal efforts not due to the patronage of any Muslim government.They are uasally exiled by the Muslim countries.

Here i would like to quote Dr.A.Q.Khan's interview to newsweek.He said that it is not the people of pakistan who ditched me or took me wrong.It was the government that took me wrong.And common people can easily befooled by the crooks.

3-The excessive role of islamic theologian in the life of a common muslim.They promote voilence in the minds of muslims.Just due to them we are failed to get rid some below standard sectrian conflicts.

4-Women in islamic countries are deprived of all those rights given by Islam.Even in Saudi Arabia women do not possess right to vote.We all knew about that.

5-The main thinking that Islam is distinct of Democracy.Islam,infact,promulgate real and pure democracy.The democracy which is the carrier of peace,is only formulated by Islam.
But it is also not true to Under the name of Islamic political party,one can do any type of corruption.Islam should be implemented not confined to title only.Infact despite title Islam must be present every where as law.I dont belive on orthodoxy,it is "peace and justice for all' that is the mean of ISLAM.

Quote:

Originally Posted by breerah Fatima Islam,infact,promulgate real and pure democracy.The democracy which is the carrier of peace,is only formulated by Islam. But it is also not true to Under the name of Islamic political party,one can do any type of corruption.Islam should be implemented not confined to title only.Infact despite title Islam must be present every where as law.I dont belive on orthodoxy,it is "peace and justice for all' that is the mean of ISLAM.

In Pakistan, Islam Needs Democracy

Published: February 16, 2008
Islamabad, Pakistan

WHILE it’s good news that secular moderates are expected to dominate Pakistan’s parliamentary elections on Monday, nobody here thinks the voting will spell the end of militant extremism. Democratic leaders have a poor track record in battling militants and offer no convincing remedies. Pakistan’s military will continue to manage the war against the Taliban and its Qaeda allies, while President Pervez Musharraf will remain America’s primary partner. The only long-term solution may lie in the hands of an overlooked natural ally in the war on terrorism: the Pakistani people.

This may come as a surprise to Americans, but the Wahhabist religion professed by the militants is more foreign to most Pakistanis than Karachi’s 21 KFCs. This is true even of the tribal North-West Frontier Province — after all, a 23-foot-tall Buddha that was severely damaged last fall by the Taliban there had stood serenely for a thousand years amid an orthodox Muslim population.

Last month I was in the village of Pakpattan observing the commemoration of the death of a Muslim Sufi saint from the Punjab — a feast of dance, poetry, music and prayer attended by more than a million people. Religious life in Pakistan has traditionally been synonymous with the gentle spirituality of Sufi mysticism, the traditional pluralistic core of Islam. Even in remote rural areas, spiritual life centers not on doctrinaire seminaries but Sufi shrines; recreation revolves around ostentatious wedding parties and Hollywood, Bollywood and the latter’s Urdu counterpart, Lollywood.

So when the Taliban bomb shrines and hair salons, or ban videos and music, it doesn’t go down well. A resident of the Swat region, the site of many recent Taliban incursions, proudly told me last month that scores of citizens in his village had banded together to drive out encroaching militants. Similarly, in the tribal areas, many local village councils, called jirgas, have summoned the Pakistani Army or conducted independent operations against extremists. Virtually all effective negotiations between the army and militants have involved local councils; in 2006, a jirga in the town of Bara expelled two rival clerics who used their town as a battleground.

The many militant outfits in the frontier regions are far from a unified popular movement. Rather, they are best characterized as ethnic or sectarian gangs, regularly changing names and loyalties. More often than battling the army, they engage each other in violent turf wars. For many of them — some with only a handful of members — “Taliban” is a convenient brand name that awards them the status of international resistance fighters. It is not uncommon for highway bandits to declare themselves Taliban when stealing tape decks from vehicles.

The Taliban franchise that has battled the army for months in the Swat Valley is held by an outfit whose founder marched thousands of local youths to their death in a campaign in Afghanistan in 2002. Upon returning, he virtually solicited his own arrest by Pakistani authorities to escape the vengeance of the victims’ families. The group is now led by one “Mullah Radio” who, armed with an FM station, preaches that polio vaccinations are a Zionist plot and that the 2005 earthquake was retribution for a sinful existence. A worrisome crank, yes, but hardly Osama bin Laden.

The big problem — as verified by a poll released last month by the United States Institute of Peace — is that while the Pakistani public condemns Talibanism, it is also opposed to the way the war on terrorism has been waged in Pakistan. People are horrified by the thousands of civilian and military casualties and the militants’ retaliatory attacks in major cities. Despite promises, very little money is going toward development, education and other public services in the frontier region’s hot zones. This has led to the belief that this war is for “Busharraf” rather than the Pakistani people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/opinion/16ziad.html

__________________
When you try, you risk failure. When you don’t try, you ensure it.

Muslims was not so backward in past centuries but now the condition of Muslim community is not so good in science, technology, defense and education. I think the main drawback is the lack of unity in Muslim community in the world and even in the country alone like a Pakistan and Afghanistan and they just leaved the Islamic cultural, economical, political and social values.