[ohioWfan]

Yes, they were Persian, but the center of study was Baghdad.

They are studied by scholars as 'Arabic' and 'Islamic' philosophers.

Now if you are going to start to argue that God created Arabs with lesser intellects than other races, we're going to have a serious problem here....

[Antoninus]

Yes, they were Persian, but the center of study was Baghdad. They are studied by scholars as 'Arabic' and 'Islamic' philosophers.

I don't care what they are "studied as." Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that academia, as it exists today, is heavily politicized and often teaches half-truths for the sake of political expediency. The Persians were a conquered people with a long history of sophisticated civilization and intellectual pursuit. The Arab conquest did not boost these pursuits. It permitted them, at first, and then abolished them. The same thing happened in the conquered former Roman provinces and it's not a coincidence.

Now if you are going to start to argue that God created Arabs with lesser intellects than other races, we're going to have a serious problem here....

Where did I say anything like this? Because one is not a cultural relativist doesn't mean that one is a racist. That's baby stuff. Or do you accept the Black Athena theory out of fear of being called a racist? Or that an evil scientist named Jacoob invented white people?

I give Islamic Arab civilization credit for one thing--they were brilliant military tacticians. And in the world in which they lived, that was really all that mattered.