Posted on 06/05/2026 5:13:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I don’t know what’s worse, junk science or junk history. There is unending propaganda about an Islamic Golden Age of the past that today's Islamists want to recreate. Much the same as a century ago, fables about an “Aryan super-race” long before Western Christianity motivated a lethal totalitarianism. Neither is true, of course, and obscures the amazing story of how Western Civilization got us to where we are.
A good example is a recent podcast by Tharik Hussain, a Muslim travel writer praising the contributions of Muslim Cordoba to Europe. The best evidence this chap offered was an odd paean from an amateur historian a century ago -- that in Cordoba’s prime it had street lighting, public baths, paved streets, arabesque decorations on palaces, schools for children, and an “Alexandrian library,” while Christian Europe was dark, dirty, muddy, and its monks and rulers unlettered.
Sorry, that’s all wrong. A few of the wealthiest Muslim cities in the Middle Ages did manage to hold on to the benefits of the Roman world they had conquered, including architecture and street layouts. But the vast majority of Islam was illiterate and impoverished. Cordoba’s streetlights were just some oil lamps hung along the central arteries. Big deal. Public baths, another legacy of the Romans, were much more common in Europe. Only in the 16th century, with waves of new diseases, did they decline, when some Tony Fauci in that era decreed that hot water spread disease.
Far from being uneducated, Europe’s Christians led the way past the fall of Rome and into the future after the barbarian invasions. Unlike Muslims, Christians have always believed the pen is mightier than the sword. For its first 500 years, the Church didn’t fight -- it preached, argued, evangelized, and published its teachings on a scale
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Islam seems to want a return to the Stone Age....but with nukes that they did not invent.
We do owe them a few of those. Mecca, Medina, Tehran...Islamabad for the grand slam.
HISTORY - 1400 years / over 700 MILLION innocent people murdered by Muslims!
“Muslims” A mass of people who carry a "holy" book that says to murder all Jews and Christians who won't bow to their prophet.
And now we're flooding them into our country and even putting them into our government.
Can American voters be more stupid or are we trying to destroy ourselves, our kids and grand-kids AND our future???
BTW - That first Muslim president Obama said he "had a plan for America" .... and it was NOT for our good!
The are very good at murder and rape.
So why are any of them in this country? Or Europe?
There certainly was a Golden Age of Islam.
The Muslim Hoards marched across North Africa and into Asia nearly undefeated for 4 centuries.
Great days for the Muslims at the expense of of those that the murdered, raped and enslaved.
Two reasons: our leadership wants them to change the face of our nation to push our decline and because the citizenry is stupid and has been brainwashed that all cultures are equal.
Without the west discovering the oil and the uses for it, they would all still be living in tents in the sand.
Other than the oil under the sand, they’ve never offered much of anything.
This world will not know peace until all peoples realize their common enemy is Islam.
The canard is that they’re “refugees.”
True dat!
They claim to have invented zero into mathematics.
They’re certainly good at reducing things to zero wherever they go.
This article is wrong-headed. There was an Islamic Golden Age. It did produce advances in science and technology at a time when the West was in the Dark Ages. There have been volumes written by serious scholars - both liberal and conservative - about it. This article is superficial and silly. We can acknowledge that Islam went through a period of learning and advancement at the same time that we criticize the problems with Islam.
“””Without the west discovering the oil and the uses for it, they would all still be living in tents in the sand.
Other than the oil under the sand, they’ve never offered much of anything.”””
So true. If Standard Oil of California had not discovered oil in the deserts of Saudi Arabia in the 1920’s, the Arab Muslims would be sharing their tent with their camels today.
Know Islam, no peace.
No Islam, know peace.
Medieval Muslims get credit for many things that they never created. It's true that Muslim scholars (mostly Persians, not Arabs) kept "alive" the texts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as transmitting innovations from India such as the base 10 decimal system - i.e. "Arab numerals" are actually Indian. But these are achievements of preservation and transmission, not innovation.
The best that can be said about Muslims in Medieval times is that they didn't go out of their way to destroy the works of "infidels" as Muslims do today, mainly because they were in a position of military and political strength rather than weakness in their homelands and some of the lands they conquered (i.e. destroying the works of other cultures is a sign of insecurity and weakness, not strength).
TRUE.
So why are any of them in this country? Or Europe?
............
Because they want slaves
And your stuff. All of it!
Who else can do the dirty work OF beheading for the globalist Democrats?
At the first resurrection, “I saw the souls of them that were BEHEADED for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God...,” Rev. 20:4.
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