Thanks to the Muslim world (But what about the last 600 years?)

7DAYS ^ | 17 March 2006 | 7DAYS

[KellyAdmirer]

You mean Muslims weren't completely worthless? Hey, how does that song go, What have you done for me lately?

[Cicero]

It's a good question. The Arabs conquered a lot of high civilizations, and I suspect most of their achievements came from that. But in the course of time, all of those civilizations decayed under the influence of Islam and its corrupt and greedy rulers.

The Arabs killed the great civilization that ran across North Africa under the Carthaginians and the Romans. The Arabs killed the ancient civilization of Egypt. The Arabs killed the ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The Arabs killed the ancient Persian civilization. The Arabs killed the ancient Greek civilization, although that has come back.

[charrisGOP]

[gas0linealley]

Why does "Islam" get the credit for the inventions?

Was it always a case of: "On my way to the mosque just now, I had an idea...".

[razorback-bert]

Roman dinners had many more courses, even feasts in the Dark Ages had more courses.

So, is it an really an invention to reduce the number?

[chickenlips]

I guess they would have claimed invention of the internet if Al Gore hadn't beat them to it.

[razorback-bert]

Coming soon "Islamic History Month"!

[Hank Rearden]

Don't forget:

>> They blowed up real good.

[quantim]

ISLAMIC SCIENCE

Always entertaining.

ALLAH’S ASTRONOMY

Even more fun.

[jimfree]

Who gives a damn?

[longtermmemmory]

I am still not impressed.

It seems everything mention can or was also discovered elsewhere.

Seems this is more a collection of prasing savages for not eating the laptop computer.

[Prokopton]

Was this sarcasm or do you really have some evidence of islam's "civilizing influence"?

[Cornpone]

"Who gives a damn?"

I do. They also invented the nuclear bomb...wait, that's next week...sorry.

[jiggyboy]

They're happy about doing the size of the planet before Galileo? Most schoolkids know how the Greeks figured it out many years before Christ by measuring shadows at noon at two places a known distance apart.

I'll bet that many if not all of the others can be similarly discounted. Here's another one: if they had cheese years and years ago, why is there no "Arab" cheese on the menu today?

[El Gato]

I bet if you researched many of these things, you would find that they had been invented by the Dhimmi population.

And worse, by Hindus in some cases. The zero, widely credited to the Arab Muslims, was actually invented by the Hindus of India, and stolen (well plagerized might be a better word) by the Muslims who had conquered them.

Jews were very prominent in intellectual circles in both the Ottoman Empire and Muslim Spain under the Moors. The latter was the path that the zero took to the rest of Europe.

Most of the great Arab achievements occurred in North Africa, before they became Muslim, and in Mesopotamia, also before old Mo's influence was felt there. There were also many Jews in Mesopotamia (todays Iraq, more or less). In fact there were quite a few up until the '67 Arab Israeli war, and more before the creation of the state of Israel.

[VOA]

According to Professor Mark Halstead, a lecturer in moral education at
Plymouth University, “Islam needs to take its place alongside other
historic groups, such as the ancient Romans and Greeks.

The Professor should read this book, especially pp.17-23.
Therein he'd find a pretty lucid and succint explanation of why
Science DID NOT arise in classical Greece or under Islam.
"The Victory of Reason" by Rodney Stark

[VOA]

and here's the link to the book by Rodney Stark (post 36)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400062284/qid=1142656415/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-5335977-2349406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

[Nathan Zachary]

"one thousand years of Muslim contributions to medicine, science, education, architecture and astronomy."

What a load of BS. Islam has contributed NOTHING to the world. All those things were created by the civilizations they massacred. The Number system was invented by a East Indian Hindu for example. Muslims "claim" they invented it, but it's simply not true. History is being re- invented by Muslims, and nobody in the UK has the Nads to stand up and call them on this B.S.?

In fact,who knows what was LOST when the Muhammadans burned down the great libraries of cultures they destroyed, because anything not relevent to Islam was burned.

[100%FEDUP]

If they are so frigging innovative, why are they still living in the desert?

[Cornpone]

"In fact,who knows what was LOST when the Muhammadans burned down the great libraries of cultures they destroyed, because anything not relevent to Islam was burned."

If it already exists in the Qur'an it is needless duplication. If it doesn't exist in the Qur'an it is apostacy and must be destroyed...we must have read the same books...before they were burned.