Posted on 01/15/2016 1:35:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
The “golden age” lasted until about 1100 when the head decided it was proper to destroy libraries, etc. After all, education that didn’t agree with the Koran was evil...and it continues today.
There never was a Muslim golden age. They conquered a number of great civilizations and enslaved the inhabitants. And it took them a while to grind down those civilizations.
As for universities, the earliest ones were in Christian countries, in the early middle ages. Which, in turn, went back to the philosophical schools of Athens and Rome.
A short summary of a long story.
They score below the west, so rather than improve themselves, they’ll flood us with migrants to bring us down too. Got it.
The Arab and Persian etc peoples are capable, its the hate-filled teachings of their Satan-worship cult that drag them down into the sewer
BS. Catholicism, monks, started universities. Allah tells you all you need to know in koran, so further education is uncalled for....hence the islamic world is ignorant and the judeachristian world is studied.
Who comes up with this crap. Muslims do nothing.
Exactly. There never was one. Your post was spot on.
Followers of islam make Flat Earthers look intelligent.
But before that movement rose up, Islamic scientists and mathematicians created the base for much of our modern science. Indeed, the development of algebra and trigonometry--spurred on by the need to find the direction of the holy city of Mecca from anywhere in the world--became the basis for modern calculus. And they had a goods trade that was essentially second to none in the world (after all, the prophet Mohammed was a merchant based in Mecca for much of his early adult life)--indeed, Arab merchants set up trading posts all over the Middle East literally right behind the conquering armies.
Recent events in Jakarta demonstrate why this is impossible.
Because: Allah gave us the Koran, and that's all we need.
Ans it's almost true in a way. Because if the Koran taught them a philosophy of conquest, they don't have to develop the products of civilization, they just have to take them over.
First sentence of the first paragraph is taqyyia - read no further.
Bull Obama.
Period.
They borrowed from Indian culture, Greco/Roman culture and the works of the Byzantine people.
Also....who was it again that burnt the great library at Alexandria?
Borrowing from other cultures is not a strike... pretty much every culture that advanced did that.
The great achievements that are said to have come out of the Islamic world were made either by non-Muslims who happened to be under Islamic rule, or by heretics who usually had little interest in Islam. Scientific discovery tapers off dramatically as Islam asserts dominance, until it eventually peters out altogether.
“Also....who was it again that burnt the great library at Alexandria?”
Actually, it was burned several times. Egyptians, Romans, Mohamedians, Christians, are all credited with burning it down at one time or another. Its demise was spread out over several centuries.
While they borrowed a lot, the development of algebra and trigonometry are definitely original works by Islamic mathematicians. And without that work, modern calculus could not exist.
Goat doots.
Disagree...there was no golden age of Islam. Dr Bill Warner dismisses this myth summarily by showing that since its inception, Islam has been about Jihad, and Submission. Any enlightenment it had was stolen from Islamic conquest in Europe, Asia, and North Africa
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