Posted on 03/17/2006 8:17:03 PM PST by Cornpone
You mean Muslims weren't completely worthless? Hey, how does that song go, What have you done for me lately?
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.
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...".
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?
I guess they would have claimed invention of the internet if Al Gore hadn't beat them to it.
Coming soon "Islamic History Month"!
>> They blowed up real good.
Who gives a damn?
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.
I do. They also invented the nuclear bomb...wait, that's next week...sorry.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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