[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Your own Western thought sprang from Arab scholorship discovered during the Crusades."

Where is this "discovered" Western thought generally found today??? Lot of Aristotelians in downtown Cairo and Mecca???

[bert]

Lot of Aristotelians in downtown Cairo and Mecca???

Well, yes. The Arabs preserved the Greek literature that would have been lost when the Roman Empire declined. Europe was dark. The crusades brought the knowledge of the knowledge to Europe. There was a reformation and a Renaissance.