Ali Mangera,"Islam has traditionally been at the forefront of technology and change."I had to read that twice.If it weren't for the west,islam would still be in the Middle Ages.
" Ali Mangera,"Islam has traditionally been at the forefront of technology and change."I had to read that twice.If it weren't for the west,islam would still be in the Middle Ages." What do you mean, would be? It's still in the 7th century. Islam has not contributed one single thing to the advancement of mankind. They have only assimulated what was already there. "The intelligence of an Arab rises as high as the faculty of imitation. Put him on a motor-car or a locomotive engine, and after a certain time of apprenticeship, they will be able to drive it; but if the machine should get out of order, he will be quite incapable of repairing it, and still less could he make a new one.” The same mistake had been committed by the Romans in former days, when they had granted the citizenship to barbarians. "An exchange was established between Italy and the Provinces. Italy sent her sons to die in distant lands and received in compensation millions of slaves. Of these, some were attached to the land, cultivated it, and soon enriched it with their bones; others, crowded together in the towns, attentive to the vices of a master, were often freed by him and became citizens. Little by little the sons of freed men came to be in sole possession of the city, composed the Roman people, and under this name gave laws to the world. From the time of the Gracchi, they alone nearly filled the Forum. Thus, a new people succeeded to the Roman people, absent or destroyed." 'Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was-and it remains-incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society.'
Inside the mind of the Muslim, and the brutal history of the caliphate