PPruNe PoP,
Living in a country where your hosts (and employers) treat you and your family with with contempt and hostility sometimes produces rather strong emotions - but, fair cop.
Good post by Soddim. Dr. Siddiqui has hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned. A very interesting and objective book on the subject of the decline of the Muslim civilisation is "What Went Wrong?" by Bernard Lewis (ISBN 0 297 82929 7).