Arabs Once Dominated Science

KSHB ^ | April 13, 2004 | Michael Woods

[Imal]

Neat article. Thanks for posting it.

[bondjamesbond]

Islam dominated science and medicine during the Dark Ages.

Why do you think they called it "the Dark Ages"?

Lawrence sits on the highest hill in Eastern Kansas, but it's not very high off the plain.

Everything is reletive.

As soon as Europe broke free from feudal religious oppression (and not coincidentally, turned back the Islamic horde), it moved forward. Islam has not.

[Ready4Freddy]

Yet millions upon millions have made a fetish of the Qu’ran and have fallen into backwardness and stagnation. Weird, huh?

P.S. I think it's a stretch to suggest that islam is a religion.

P.P.S. non sequitur is a noun, not an adjective.

[NathanR]

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.

The year 1500 is indicative, because 1453 or so was when Constinople fell. By 1500 most of the greek scientists would have been dead. (or fled to Italy.)

[Ohioan]

Any article on the decline of science in the Moslem World, which ignores the genocidal policies of the Mongols, who swept through much of the Asiatic population centers, is naive in the extreme. The population of Iraq, today, for example, simply cannot be compared to the population of the region before 1400.

This certainly does not mean that the people cannot better themselves. But it certainly rules out their achieving the sort of culture--not that they seem to want it--to which Americans have become accustomed. (Of course, every people's culture reflects the people who created it.)

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[Doc On The Bay]

NO;---SADLY, "Arab," & " Muslim" have become synonymous with "LUDDITES."

"Islam", simply, is INCAPABLE OF "Dealing With " ANY Human Advancement since it's "Golden Age." (pre-1500).

Sadly, "Islam" is the DEATH of a Culture.

& the "Radicalism" we see is the "Death Rattle" of that Culture.

Doc

[John Frum]

P.P.S. non sequitur is a noun, not an adjective.

Again, totally non sequitur.

[Ready4Freddy]

Not at all. One should not use an adverb (totally) to modify a noun (non sequitur) - unless one is a Valley girl, I suppose..... ;>/

totally non sequitur

[amanda99]

He's not "my" prophet cronos, he's islams prophet. Prophet muhammed risked his life in spreading the knowledge of islam, people who joined him were brutally beaten, they were forced to lie on burning sand, had huge boulders on their chests, red hot iron poured on them, and they still followed through because islam is a pure and incredible religion. Prophet muhammed was bribed to stop teaching people about islam, he was beaten himself, his uncle life was taken, his first wife's life was taken, he didnt promise safety he promised a religion. People who were against him were out to get him, one in particular Abu Safyan would not back down. He would take an army of men and attack muslims as they were praying, but before he did this Prophet muhammed and an army were at war with Abu safyan and they(prophet muhammed and the muslims) won this war, and they kept getting attacked so they would go on to win against a jewish clan and non believers because they were sick of the repeated beatings they were taking and not doing anything about it at first, so cronos this is where all the killing came that you speak of, that aparently makes us "bad" people, but the people who would attack the muslims first were "angels", in your words.

[amanda99]

actually he memorized most of the ideas he had, he didnt like writing. so no he wasnt an "illiterate idiot", maybe you should read up before you speak.

[John Frum]

Whoa, knarly man, you said "valley girl", like wow, scrumpdillicious!

[Cronos]

Prophet muhammed risked his life in spreading the knowledge of islam,

Actually he risked his life while killing others like the hundreds of Jews of Mecca & Medinah he ordered killed.

[Cronos]

people who joined him were brutally beaten

People who joined him were brutally beaten because they were bandits and crooks and were the first to use violence and got it back in return.

[Cronos]

he didnt promise safety he promised a religion.

No, he promised 72 virgins and 20 odd young boys to deflower. He promised loot and lust and violence.

[Cronos]

where all the killing came that you speak of, that aparently makes us "bad" people, but the people who would attack the muslims first were "angels", in your words.

look outside the lies of the Koran and realise that the slamics were the first to attack and kill -- look at modern day Sudan and you'll see what's happening, look at Saudi Arabia, at Nigeria, at Egypt.

[Cronos]

he didnt like writing.

Actually I was disinclined to believe Parmy, but you've convinced me that Mo WAS illiterate. "didn't like writing" indeed!

[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".

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Cronos,

Yeah right, they forget that the reason for this was that the slamics had conquered the part of the world that was scientifically adept -- India, Persia, Byzantium, Egypt, GReece.


You're absolutely correct. Arabs are Medival Savages trying to implement Nuclear Genocide to our Glorious Western Civization.

Where's the Black Death when you need it ? Just kidding, of course (Actually, I was just quoting from one of Osama Ben Laden's cell-phone conversations with Green Peace).


Patton@Bastogne

Free Republic member since 1998.


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[AmericanVictory]

All solely because of oil production which assumes the same production and fuel technology that it has for over sixty years. What blindness has caused us to allow this to happen?