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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See, they invented the Chrysler Cordoba.
A 45 APC.
Time to ban islam and muslims from the US.
YES
Much of Muslim achievement occurred despite rather than because of Islam. For example, the Persian scholars who are praised to the skies as proof of Muslim accomplishment in medieval times were simply carrying on the traditions of learning that were present when Persia was primarily Zoroastrian. Islam simply hadn't destroyed this tradition yet.
The same applies to Arab scholars, whose forebears were Christian or had various pagan beliefs prior to the Islamicization of the Holy Land and Egypt.
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