What the Arab World Produces
At least since the early part of the 20th century, aside from oil, the Arab world has produced and exported two products. It has produced essentially no technology, medicine or anything else in the world of science. It has almost no contributions to world literature, art or to intellectual development. According to the most recent United Nations Arab Human Development Reports (2003-2005), written by Arab intellectuals, Greece, with a population of 11 million, annually translates five times more books from English than the entire Arab world, population 370 million. Nor is this a new... Ref. Source 5
There is good and bad in everything but I will say there are a lot of temptations for the people there that can turn things bad;
1. Oil and riches
2. Treating women as subhuman
3. Fanatical religion
It doesn't help to hear bombs going off either or some foreign nation invading your soil.