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Originally posted by CountDrac
reply to post by Sover3igN
It actually says what most people don’t say but want to. Yes Islam in the past gave some things to the world but not in a long time…
Some liberal academics openly admit that they twist the Moslem past to serve their present-day intellectual agendas.
For example, some who propound the myth of an Islamic golden age of tolerance admit that their goal is, "to recover for postmodernity that lost medieval Judeo-Islamic trading, social and cultural world, its high point pre-1492 Moorish Spain, which permitted and relished a plurality, a convivencia, of religions and cultures, Christian, Jewish and Moslem; which prized an historic internationality of space along with the valuing of particular cities; which was inclusive and cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan here meaning an ease with different cultures: still so rare and threatened a value in the new millennium as in centuries past."
In other words, a fairy tale designed to create the illusion that multiculturalism has valid historical precedents that prove it can work.
Originally posted by Sover3igN
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
That is exactly what I meant in my first reply.
Re-Written history, and you can only re-write history if you have power.
So you just debunked yourself.
The "golden age" of Islamic art lasted from AD 750 to the mid-11th century, when ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and woodwork flourished. Lustered glass became the greatest Islamic contribution to ceramics. Manuscript illumination became an important and greatly respected art, and miniature painting flourished in Iran. Calligraphy, an essential aspect of written Arabic, developed in manuscripts and architectural decoration. In the exact sciences the contribution of Al-Khwarzimi, mathematician and astronomer, was considerable. Like Euclid, he wrote mathematical books that collected and arranged the discoveries of earlier mathematicians. His "Book of Integration and Equation" is a compilation of rules for solving linear and quadratic equations, as well as problems of geometry and proportion. Its translation into Latin in the 12th century provided the link between the great Hindu mathematicians and European scholars. A corruption of the book’s title resulted in the word algebra; a corruption of the author’s own name resulted in the term algorithm.
The problem with turning this list of intellectual achievements into a convincing "Islamic" golden age is that whatever flourished, did so not by reason of Islam but in spite of Islam. Moslems overran societies (Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Byzantine, Syrian, Jewish) that possessed intellectual sophistication in their own right and failed to completely destroy their cultures.
To give it the credit for what the remnants of these cultures achieved is like crediting the Red Army for the survival of Chopin in Warsaw in 1970! Islam per se never encouraged science, in the sense of disinterested enquiry, because the only knowledge it accepts is religious knowledge.
Originally posted by SpeachM1litant
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
I love the fact you use a blog as your source. A blog titled Western Civilization. Of course they have no interest in twisting the facts(sarcasm).
I'd like to add an observation. I can't believe this thread has got so much positive attention. It is completely ridiculous. I thought the day of religous and racial supremacy and intolerance was over. Get it in your head people, we are all equal, it is our surrounding that shape the way we are, not our race or culture.edit on 15-4-2011 by SpeachM1litant because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by mayabong
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
They hate the west because Israel and the US are up in their biz 24/7. Of course the zionist media makes it seem like they are just angry because of their religion. What goes around comes around watch out