Speechless!

I wanted to rip The Vatican apart regarding the reasons for The Crusades. Then I saw stuff like this [1, 2] and I was left speechless! I can now see why initiatives like this [3] are treated with mirth and ridicule, and I don't really know what to say.

Muslims (including myself) like to boast of 'Islamic Superiority'. However this needs to be reflected by some form of evidence, and at the moment all the [winning] cards are in the hands of the athiests, cynics and other Non-Muslims. After all if the Quran [constantly] pleads with us to learn, understand and apply, then why aren't we? Ok so any reasonably educated Muslim can rattle off names like ibn Sina, Al-Biruni, Al-Khwarismi etc etc but these people lived over a millenia ago - what the hell have we been doing since?

I actually congratulate people like Ibn Waraq, Parvin Darabi etc [4] because they're challenging the Muslim World to break out of its current slumber with questions like these [5]. Whilst I can actually answer each and every one of them I refuse to do so. The sole purpose of such questions is to determine the ability of Muslims to think logically [based on Quran and Sunnah], but if I'm the only 'free thinker' out there then it says little about the Muslim World.

I want to speak proudly about my Islamic Heritage. Perhaps one day I will be able to do so without fear of mockery and ridicule.

References:

1. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={26CC3516-345F-4F9D-B448-3A027C0B1A46}
2 http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Persecution_of_non-Muslims_in_Muslim_countries
3. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=508901&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
4. http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Muslims_who_left_Islam
5. http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Hundreds_of_Questions_to_Ask_a_Muslim