United Arab Emirates becomes the first Arab country to reach Mars

[Battista Minola 1616]

Arab/Muslim areas during the Middle Ages were world leaders in math and science, while Europeans still clobbered each other.

Nowadays it’s virtually the opposite, but still good to see that the UAE at least are returning to normalcy and science, while other Arab/Muslim areas are still extremely backwards.

Ich bin KEIN Rassist!!! 1!

[Battista Minola 1616]

Arab/Muslim areas during the Middle Ages were world leaders in math and science, while Europeans still clobbered each other.

Nowadays it’s virtually the opposite, but still good to see that the UAE at least are returning to normalcy and science, while other Arab/Muslim areas are still extremely backwards.

Ich bin KEIN Rassist!!! 1!

I mean, it's a factually true statement, as long as you add "most Arab countries" instead of Muslim, as there are fair few examples of relatively progressive Muslim countries.

Most responses to posts like this are basically, as seen here, "lol" or lowkey racism accusations, even when the statement is simply true, albeit with a few smaller changes to it.

Now, of course, you can go another route and argue that countries that require women to be chaperoned or casually throw gay people off of buildings aren't "backwards" but simply "different", but I'm not sure that's a normal opinion to have.

Whoosh. Defining entire countries as "backwards" doesn't strike me as a healthy exercise, but more to the point, how does any of this stuff have anything to do with a space mission to Mars?