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‘All Modern Discoveries Are By Muslim Scientists’ (History Twisted To Boost Islam's Image)
Daily Times ^ | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 | Daily Times

Posted on 11/06/2007 7:02:15 AM PST by DogByte6RER

‘All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists’

LAHORE: Muslim scientists have made all discoveries of the current age, said University of Columbia’s Arabic and Islamic Studies prof George Saliba at a seminar at the Government College University (GCU) on Monday. The seminar, titled The Problems of Historiography of Islamic Science, was held at Fazl-e-Hussain Hall. Saliba gave a critique of the standard classical accounts of the rise of Islamic science. He detailed problems in the accounts and explained alternative historiography that described the rise of an Islamic scientific tradition as a result of social and political conditions within the nascent Islamic empire. He said Muslim philosophy was the impetus behind Islamic science that had contributed to various disciplines including botany, zoology, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physics, chemistry, physiology and mathematics in the pre-industrial era. He said the use of decimal fractions was not a Western invention and that it was discovered by a Muslim scientist. He said the binary system, on which the computer was based, was also invented by a Muslim scientist. He said Arab/Islamic science was not an intermediary between Greek science and European science, but was rather the Renaissance that integrated the Islamic science with European science. Saliba also visited the English Language and Literature Department where he engaged faculty members in a conversation on the Islamic and Renaissance paradigms. staff report

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: crushislam; dribble; history; indoctrination; islam; islamofascism; jihad; lies; ministryoftruth; muhammadsminions; muslims; penisenvy; propaganda; revision
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To: horse_doc

Nuclear fission was DISCOVERED; the A-bomb was invented!

MV


41 posted on 11/06/2007 7:41:42 AM PST by madvlad ((Born in the south, raised around the globe and STILL republican))
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To: DogByte6RER

Groups that have no significant accomplishments usually try to take credit for the work of others, or invent a glorious history for themselves that never existed. There are whole departments in US universities devoted to such nonsense.


42 posted on 11/06/2007 7:42:28 AM PST by Hacklehead (Proud graduate of the Klingon School of Interpersonal Communication.)
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To: null and void
A couple of people said the same thing on that thread. One of the great things about the internet is that errors get exposed very quickly.

Still, the sentiment of my question was accurate.

ML/NJ

43 posted on 11/06/2007 7:42:56 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: DogByte6RER
If by “all modern discoveries” they meant their own asses, and if they managed to have a westerner put a mirror on a stick for them and taught them how to use it, the headline statement STILL wouldn’t be true.
44 posted on 11/06/2007 7:43:00 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: ml/nj

Yed. Very accurate, the minor and understandable error only serves to further highlight underlying truth.


45 posted on 11/06/2007 7:44:48 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: ThomasThomas

The muslims never invented anything. They took over, copied, inherited, the Greek Byzantine inheritance.

Read DeLacy O’Leary.

How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs

DeLacy O’Leary

The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements—how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine, which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world and later passed on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O’Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics, and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade, and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites, Indian influences by land and sea, and the rise of Buddhism, O’Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect it had on the history of medicine, science, and historical geography, as well as the history of the Arab world.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/071030/0710307470.HTM


46 posted on 11/06/2007 7:45:32 AM PST by plenipotentiary
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To: DogByte6RER

All Your Modern Discoveries Are Belong To Us


47 posted on 11/06/2007 7:46:22 AM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: DogByte6RER
"Islamic science that had contributed to various disciplines including botany, zoology, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physics, chemistry, physiology and mathematics in the pre-industrial era."

Yes! Chemistry is THAT important.

48 posted on 11/06/2007 7:47:12 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cletus has a BS.Chem)
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To: null and void

There Are No Jews In Jerusalem. NEEeeveh!


49 posted on 11/06/2007 7:47:13 AM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: null and void

Yed???? I meant Yes...


50 posted on 11/06/2007 7:47:56 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: DogByte6RER

There are lies, foolish lies, there are demonic lies, and Islam is all three.


51 posted on 11/06/2007 7:48:24 AM PST by quadrant
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To: DogByte6RER

Of course not, the Russians invented it.

52 posted on 11/06/2007 7:51:16 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote ("Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.")
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Yes! Chemistry is THAT important.

The formulation of poisons was undoubtedly important to møøselimbs...

53 posted on 11/06/2007 7:51:20 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: ThomasThomas

That would be when their (pedophile) spiritual leader decided that the world was fine just as it is and declared that “good” Arabs should never change beyond their 5th century culture.


54 posted on 11/06/2007 8:00:26 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: DogByte6RER
one thing I have to give them credit for is the food. yummo!


55 posted on 11/06/2007 8:01:01 AM PST by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Other than possibly being ahead of the rest of the world on camel and goat breeding science, I do not see any major contributions


56 posted on 11/06/2007 8:05:39 AM PST by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: DogByte6RER
Muslim scientists have made all discoveries of the current age

Which is why the majority of the Muslim world lives in poverty?

I guess if this were true you would have to come to the conclusion that the Muslims inventors don't like Muslims very much.

57 posted on 11/06/2007 8:08:18 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: DogByte6RER
Muslim men are so incredibly violent apparently because they have such enormous inferiority complexes to compensate for....

conceal female skin because they are too weak to see it...
blame the rape victim because they are too weak to resist bodily urges...
bomb shopping centers because they cannot stand to see successful commerce (as they are incapable of productivity... without the oil production facilities that they nationalized (read: stole), the entire Middle Easthas the GDP of Belgium)...
desecrate the houses of worship of all other faiths, because they all so clearly show Islam's utter mediocrity...
march and demand the return of "ancient lands" because they are too imcompetent to win a single war in the 20th Century against a non-Muslim opponent (even with 6-to-1 numerical advantages and a sneak attack on 3 sides)...

Yeah, I guess I'd be frustrated and willing to accept some serious levels of cognitive dissonance too, if that was the culture I was forced to profess.

58 posted on 11/06/2007 8:13:53 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Bogtrotter52
Other than possibly being ahead of the rest of the world on camel and goat breeding science, I do not see any major contributions

One culture's animal husbandry is another's bestiality...

59 posted on 11/06/2007 8:14:17 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: DogByte6RER
He said Muslim philosophy was the impetus behind Islamic science...

Not even close. It wasn't Muslim philosophy, it was Greek philosophy. Specifically, the writings of Aristotle. There's a really interesting book called "The Children of Aristotle". It talks about how the Muslims preserved the Greek writings during the Dark Ages. The western world rediscovered the Greek writings at the same time as the Muslims started to reject Greek philosophy. This resulted in the resurgence of the western world and the stagnation & decline of the Islamic world.

60 posted on 11/06/2007 8:15:20 AM PST by Tao Yin
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