"Muslims have made a tremendous contribution to the development of science, geography, astronomy and so on. Which I believe is not very well known," he said.
Sure.
6 posted on 10/27/2007 10:07:49 PM PDT by pigsmith
(Viewing life as a gift from God, I tend to regard self-defense more as an obligation.)
At their best, they helped preserve a lot of knowledge during the Dark Ages but they never actually created anything. Most of the achievements of the Arabs and Persians predate Islam.
22 posted on 10/28/2007 4:30:07 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
(Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
