[quadrant]

What does it matter as long as they have Islam?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

From 800 AD to 1500, Arabic was the language of science, as English is today. Muslims occupied Spain, and Europeans flocked to Toledo and other Spanish cities, or traveled great distances to Baghdad or Damascus, to translate Islamic science and medical books into Latin.

What a load of e.coli. They must have meant "translated back into Latin".

[Bon mots]

Arabs Once Dominated Science

Yeah, right. Back in the days when there wasn't any Science. We're talking 500 years ago!

What great developments did they actually make themselves, and not co-op.

Their chief contributions - the zero and Hindu-Arabic numerals - were invented by the Hindus. The Arabs just take credit for it, like everything else.

[Alouette]

Islamic medicine in the year 1000 was a marvel of sophistication, featuring competency tests for doctors, drug purity regulations, hospitals staffed by nurses and interns, advanced surgeries, and other practices beyond the dreams of medieval Europeans.

Because most of the doctors were Jews!

[RightWhale]

"It is highly probable that, but for the Arabs, modern European civilization would never have arisen

Still waiting.

[petercooper]

I couldn't live over there. It's always so dusty and dirty, and they're always wearing the sandals or goin barefoot. Yuk- I would hate that. I need good footwear.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Islame is to blame. But, not to worry Arabs, your religion plans to reduce the rest of the world to level of your society-a society consisting of only the stupid and the dead.

[Beckwith]

Outside of becoming the bloodiest murderers in the world, what has the Muslim world done lately?

[steve-b]

It would be more accurate to say that the Arabs were civilized by the more advanced cultures they conquered, just like the Romans before them and the Mongols after them.

[aruanan]

Arabs Once Dominated Science

No, they didn't. Muslims conquered various countries, mostly via proxies who then sent the tributes back to their Muslim bosses (then largely Arab--until the rise of the Turks). In many of these countries, the science and math continued in spite of the Muslim-backed invasion and takeover. The scientific and mathematical discoveries continued in spite of, not because of, Islam.

[Publius6961]

BS!

There is a profound difference between "controlling" science and controlling (and not sharing) the accumulated knowledge about the sciences done by others.

[FreedomCalls]

Arabs Once Dominated Science

And dinosaurs once dominated the Earth.

[I_dmc]

Here's a thought to ponder. What if the Amish had become the dominant religious belief during, say, the 1860's, growing at the same rate as Islam? How would the US look, today?

[expatguy]

"Arabs Once Dominated Science"

I once had sex with a redhead...

And the point being...?

[SunkenCiv]

How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science
The New York Times | October 30, 2001 | DENNIS OVERBYE
Posted on 10/29/2001 4:27:41 PM EST by sarcasm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/559274/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Arabs Once Dominated Science
KSHB | April 13, 2004 | Michael Woods
Posted on 04/19/2004 11:59:15 AM EDT by me_newswire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120442/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Why Have Muslim Scholars Been Undervalued Throughout Western History?
Bakir Tarabishy's Muslim Reading Room | Article not dated | Bakir Tarabishy
Posted on 10/01/2001 4:22:50 PM EDT by Benoit Baldwin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/537101/posts

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