Chess likely originated in India, not Persia. If we look further into these claims, we will find most of the rest are bogus as well.
Posted on 03/17/2006 8:17:03 PM PST by Cornpone
Muslims certainly didn't invent soap either. It was made from lard and lye, and Muslims destest pigs.
We know from reading the traditions that Mohammad and his smelly clan of murdering bandits seldom to a bath, never mind used soap.
Mohammad had fleas, and his followers smelled very ripe- so ripe that others in Medina couldn't bear to stand near them.
This statement is silly at several levels. For example:
By the way, claiming all sorts of "inventions" for "Islam" is nothing new - do some Google searches and you'll find that Moslem historians also teach that all of Columbus's ship captains were Moslem, and that Moslems were exploring the Mississippi river centuries before anyone else. I swear, it reminds me of the old days of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union used to teach that Russians had discovered everything from the airplane to the electric light bulb, or the 80's fad of African Historical Revisionism, which insisted that Cleopatra was Black, and taught inner city kids stories about Egyptions (who, of course, the inner city kids were decended from) using gliders 3000 years ago (Note - I'm not kidding).
Arabic philosophy is not important as original thought. Men like Avicenna and Averroes are essentially commentators. Speaking generally, the views of the more scientific philosophers come from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists in logic and metaphysics, from Galen in medicine, from Greek and Indian sources in mathematics and astronomy, and among mystics religious philosophy has also an admixture of old Persian beliefs. Writers in Arabic showed some originality in mathematics and in chemistry – in the latter case, as an incidental result of alchemical researches. Mohammedan civilization in its great days was admirable in the arts and in many technical ways, but it showed no capacity for independent speculation in theoretical matters. Its importance, which must not be underrated, is as a transmitter. Between ancient and modern European civilization, the dark ages intervened. The Mohammedans and the Byzantines, while lacking the intellectual energy required for innovation, preserved the apparatus of civilization – education, books, and learned leisure. Both stimulated the West when it emerged from barbarism – the Mohammedans chiefly in the thirteenth century, the Byzantines chiefly in the fifteenth. In each case the stimulus produced new thought better than any produced by the transmitters – in the one case scholasticism, in the other the Renaissance (which however had other causes also).
- Lord Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy (1st Edition, 1945)
Muslim math?
Child-Suicide bombers, as a dual purpose methods for both offensive warfare and population/birth control.
Ingenious!
SFS
Sherbet, a juice of crushed fruit, herbs, or flowers was the world’s first soft drink
Ask King Solomon about things like this.
More to the point, try the cheese claim:
Cheese was known to the ancient Sumerians four thousand years before the birth of Christ. The ancient Greeks credited Aristaeus, a son of Apollo and Cyrene, with its discovery; it is mentioned in the Old Testament.
In the Roman era cheese really came into its own. Cheesemaking was done with skill and knowledge and reached a high standard.
>> Unlike people in Medieval Europe, the Islamic world had a constant supply of fresh foods to eat throughout the year thanks to the development of crop rotation.
Maybe Europe's more severe winters also had something to do with this? Again, go to the Old Testament, and check out when the various harvests occured.
Arrrgh; it isn't worth, it. THIS says it all: Professor Al-Hassani, who has led a five-year project.
Many of these bullet points are blatant distortions and lies.
Chess invented by the Persians? How's that a muslim contribution? That's a Zarathustrian contribution, if one wants to qualify it in religious terms.
How's the spread of a local fruit and vegetable a "contribution"?
muslims did not invent crop rotation.
This is mostly BS.
It's easy to disprove these claims, but it doesn't stop these Islamic liars from making the claim. MSM and other appeasers can't be bothered to correct them for some reason.
This book deals with the subject directly.
Islam and the Psychology (Mind) of the Musulman,
"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.”
"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."
"Prior to Islam they had no civilization, nor have they developed one since Islam. They came close by the 9th century A.D., but managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the nick of time. Their sole creation has been a religion."
“To sum up: the Arab has borrowed everything from other nations, literature, art, science, and even his religious ideas. He has passed it all through the sieve of his own narrow mind, and being incapable of rising to high philosophic conceptions, he has distorted, mutilated and desiccated everything. This destructive influence explains the decadence of Musulman nations and their powerlessness to break away from barbarism…”
It's great book, everyone should download and read it.
Chess was first played in India, not Persia.
Yep, less go back to the Dark Ages, book burnings and all the other good things associated with this culture of hate.
They did. It is. It's called "jebne".
Just because they are murderous bastards doesn't mean we have to revise history like a bunch of damn democrats.
The Iman says you can't listen to music.
>> Chess was originally a Persian game with pieces including Shah as King.
>> A Ninth Century Muslim introduced the concept of the three-course meal to Europe.
The Romans certainly had mult-course meals.
>> Sherbet, a juice of crushed fruit, herbs, or flowers was the world’s first soft drink and was enjoyed by Western figures such as the 19th Century English poet Lord Byron.
It comes from a Turkish word but it is traditionally traced to the Romans
>> Syrian Muslim and blind professor, Zain-Din al Amidi in the 14th Century improvised a method by which he identified his books and made notes - 600 years before braille was invented.
The Copts say they beat them.
The scope of the school of Alexandria was not limited to theological subjects, because science, mathematics and the humanities were also taught there: The question and answer method of commentary began there, and 15 centuries before Braille, wood-carving techniques were in use there by blind scholars to read and write.
>> Unlike people in Medieval Europe, the Islamic world had a constant supply of fresh foods to eat throughout the year thanks to the development of crop rotation.
Crop rotation was practiced in ancient Roman, African, and Asian cultures AND in the Middle Ages
>> Apricots, oranges and artichokes were first introduced to Europe by the Muslims.
Oranges and apricots come from China and the ancient Greeks knew about artichokes.
>> Cheese was first made in the Middle East. The earliest type was a form of sour milk.
>> Tenth Century Muslim doctor Al-Zahrawi pioneered plastic surgery. And his practice of using ink to mark his incisions on the body is still a standard surgical procedure.
>> Al-Biruni, the 14th Century physicist was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth and its tilt 600 years before Galileo.
Bingo. Notice how they authors of the article try to attribute every arab or persian achievment as a Muslim acheivment. In reality, virtuly every significant thing on the list predated Muhammed by centuries.
Chess likely originated in India, not Persia. If we look further into these claims, we will find most of the rest are bogus as well.
That reminds me:
They mean "succession cropping", not "crop rotation".
Two different animals altogether.
One is dealing with continuous (more or less) production from a field throughout the year. The other involves not planting the same or related crops on the same field each year to prevent disease transmission & nutrient problems.
Spare us the revisionist garbage. At best it is intellectually dishonest, at worst (like that french text you posted about) it is bigotry wrapped in ignorance.
Al-Jabr or Algebra (though you may not like it) was invented by muslims. Their work on astronomy was way ahead of the west (once upon a time). Arabs also came up with the fork while our european ancestors were eating with their hands.
Let's try not to spread hate through ignorance, Nathan. The muslims have done plenty to deserve our antipathy without resorting to Al-taqiyya.
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