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When the Muslims conquered Constantinople, they also took over the great library, which housed all of the writings of the Greek philosophers. The West thought that all of these writings were lost until they were rediscovered in the 12th century to have been translated into Arabic. For the better part of 800 years the Muslims had been using the knowledge of the Greek philosophers. That is the reason why they stumbled across the concept of zero, from their study of Greek philosophy.
Now, at the same time that the Muslim culture is at its zenith and they happily share their Arabic translations with the West, their religious leaders decide that philosophy is not important anymore and it then was no longer prized.
The rediscovery of Aristotle and all of the other Greek philosophers is the very reason why the West created it's Renaissance. Meanwhile, the Islamic culture has not advanced since those days in the 12th century.
Camel poop.
So they ignored the Muslim Ottoman Empire and just examined the Dark Ages ? Prior to the start of World War 1, the Ottoman Empire was known as the sick old man of Europe. What an accomplishment considering the Empire had been around for over 400 years.
Didn’t Firnas rip off Icarus?
Does the historical record of Muslim inventions date from prior to the year, let us say, 700 AD? Did Arab cultures produce inventions absent the intellectual stimulus (straight jacket) of Islamic thought?
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I guess Kingsley never read about the millions of his fellow Indians who were murdered by the Moghuls.
The efforts to diminish western civilization at any cost to rational facts never ceases to amaze me.
I saw 2016 recently. The most interesting thing about the movie, to me, is that the most dangerous, anti-western, anti-Judaeo-Christian, anti-American radicals who surrounded the educational background of Obama were educateed not in Moscow or Peking but in AMERICA.
Remember Charles The Hammer Martel? Strangely enough the dark ages fell upon Europe at the very same time as the muslims pushed their rule forward taking over one country at a time by killing Christians & anyone who refused to become a muslim.
They got all the way up to France. Then Charles The Hammer Martel (King Charles(aka Charlemagne)of France’s grandfather) defeated them. Yep, you guessed it, right about the time that the dark ages ended.
It is well documented the invention of the condom was credited to islamic inventor and military leader Suleiman the Magnificent. In 1532 he ws credited with using the lower intestine of a male goat as an effective medical device to prevent pregnancy.
The British improved on this design later in 1544 by killing the goat and removing the lower intestine for portable usage.
*bump* note to self: match with NASA article
In fact, it is the word for cow and it was invented by Louis Pasteur, where they would take the scabs of people who had cowpox and stuff them in other people's noses to give them lifelong immunity to smallpox.
Vaca = cow, vaccination comes from that.
(Joke credit: isthisnickcool)
I’ll give them the Taj Mahal of Agra and that’s about it.
Islam creates ignorance, poverty and destruction.