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Al gebra (the stones) was the basis of much of our higher mathematics, and the concept of "zero" came down to us through Arabic scholars

Stolen from Hindus.

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Islam was founded on an earlier religion in the readion, Zoroastrianism, a monotheistic religion that was the state religion of Persia, and dates back to several centuries before Christ. This religion survives in much diminished numbers in India today, but all the historic records of high learning were created in the days when this religion was ascendent. The three wise men, the Magi, traveled from the East bearing gifts, and almost certainly they were of this practice.

The Qu'ran was written by a hothead reactionary, and was the equivalent in its day of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Karl Marx's Das Kapital. Like Luddites, the Islamic movement was determined to smash the existing culture and centers of learning, and are at base very anti-intellectual. The Zoroastrianists were driven out, and what few remained in Persia and Mesopotamia expired when the hordes of Genghis Khan swept in out of the east. As is known today, this probably forged for all time the determination of the jihadists of Islam to take no prisoners, the only choice offered is convert or die.