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When Islam Was Synonymous With Knowledge and Erudition
The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | Andrew Lycett

Posted on 03/18/2017 4:23:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Islam retards nations and individuals.

People must come out of the cult, for there own sake and that of the world.

A good start is to sever ethnic and national identities from islam.


21 posted on 03/18/2017 4:46:47 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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People must come out of the cult, for their own sake and that of the world.


22 posted on 03/18/2017 4:50:04 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: nickcarraway

bump for later digestion.

A good friend of mine is a devout Muslim. Wonderful, wonderful women. BUT the only mosque she will go to in the D.C. area is her “Jesus Mosque”. They believe the Christ spoke the word of God.

She came here after the over through of the Shah. (Carter made it hard.)

And most Mosques are the enemy. Time to wake up.


23 posted on 03/18/2017 4:54:53 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: onedoug

All very nice. But islam was, is and always will be based on conquest.

All very nice and all BS. Islam has never made positive any contributions to society. It is evil to the core.


24 posted on 03/18/2017 4:56:00 PM PDT by boycott
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To: nickcarraway

Architectural Myths #1: “Islamic Architecture”

https://misfitsarchitecture.com/2010/06/25/architectural-myths-1-islamic-architecture/


25 posted on 03/18/2017 5:00:24 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: nickcarraway

No greater retrograde force in history - Winston Churchill


26 posted on 03/18/2017 5:00:26 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Ray76
The Plague of Islam

If the civilized world is to survive, Islam must be understood for what it really is: It’s not a religion, form of government, or anything recognizable to the civilized mind. Islam is a disease, an incurable disease of the mind that is highly contagious among the feeble minded and is now spreading among the world’s feeble minded at an epidemic rate. As with any disease, one can’t reason with this disease, negotiate with it, or treat in a manner other than how one would treat any other incurable disease.

As past efforts to contain this disease have failed, carriers of this Plague of Islam must be eradicated wherever they're found, for if they're not, this disease could eventually end not just Western Civilization, but it could undo over 5,000 years of human civilization.

27 posted on 03/18/2017 5:11:45 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Most of Islam’s “achievements” were made by the Ancient Greeks, Ancient Romans, Ancient Chaldeans and Ancient Indians. Islam invaded lands, conquered lands and translated some of the books that they did not burn. Very little real advancement came from Islam.

Islam was created by a desert bandit for desert bandits.

Islam prospered only as long as they were able to conquer and thus acquire civilized slaves who knew how to operate a civilization. When their expansion was stopped in the West, they went into a long-term decline, until oil gave them a new source of unearned wealth.

28 posted on 03/18/2017 5:16:50 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: nickcarraway
What a total crock. Learning and knowledge are the antithesis of Islam.
29 posted on 03/18/2017 5:22:35 PM PDT by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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To: Nifster

Small correction:

Balderdash. Islam only confiscated knowledge from other societies. Nothing if their own ever. HISTORICALLY AND currently Islam is jihadist first last and always.


30 posted on 03/18/2017 5:30:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: beethovenfan

Algebra they learned from the Hindus when they invaded India, and same with buildings. They enslaved countless Indian architects, builders and so on to help them build their pretty buildings.

Not one single useful or good thing has ever been invented by moslems.

Oh, and Arabic numerals are originally Sanskrit.


31 posted on 03/18/2017 5:32:59 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: nickcarraway

The Islamic Enlightenment - an oxymoron ...

Based on what anyone who studied history back when it was still taught could tell you was just plain false or as they say today taqyyia.


32 posted on 03/18/2017 5:41:38 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not true! The Arab master race made huge advancements in slavery ...


33 posted on 03/18/2017 5:43:04 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: nickcarraway

Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science


34 posted on 03/18/2017 5:57:47 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: nickcarraway

“... and declaring that the region is backward and in need of a thorough western-style reformation.”

Islam cannot be reformed because it is unethical pagan monotheism. You can not reform a system of rules that promotes organized criminality. You just can’t!


35 posted on 03/18/2017 6:22:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: little jeremiah

Fair enough


36 posted on 03/18/2017 6:35:44 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: nickcarraway

So, like never?


37 posted on 03/18/2017 7:19:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: shibumi

Erudite leaders. Just out of curiosity how much erudition did those leaders encourage or tolorate in the people they ruled?


38 posted on 03/18/2017 7:25:03 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: nickcarraway

Just as important is the one man, often called the second most influential philosopher in Islamic history, who brought Muslim enlightenment to a screeching halt, even though it took a while, which didn’t just stop the advance of Muslim progress, but regressed it to the primitive near tribal state it still exists in today.

His name was shortened as Al-Ghazali in Arabic or Ghazali in Persian and known as Algazelus or Algazel to the western medieval world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali

He lived from about 1058 to 1111 A.D. Though he was well educated, his philosophy can be consolidated into simply, “All important knowledge is in the Koran. All other learning and knowledge is just a distraction.”

He was a Persian, in a Persia of the time that was very fearful of invasion, and so quite xenophobic. So disdain of the ideas of nun-Muslims was easy to adapt.

But as his ideas spread outward through southern Asia into northern Africa, libraries and schools were closed, except for those that were entirely Islamic, advances in the natural sciences and studies ended. Art and architecture, music and other advances lost favor, not just fallen idle, but despised and destroyed.

After it crossed North Africa and entered Spain, thus began the departure of the Muslims, leaving behind the last of their libraries, and their great works of beauty like the Alhambra.

That was the last gasp of Islam as a modern or contemporary idea. Only in the last few decades have some cracks appeared in their edifice of primitivism and anti-intellectualism.


39 posted on 03/18/2017 7:27:06 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Leftists aren't fascists. They are "democratic fascists", a completely different thing.)
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To: IWontSubmit

I’m reading that currently. It’s an enlightening tome.


40 posted on 03/18/2017 7:29:59 PM PDT by Lee Enfield (Liberate East Prussia)
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