Criticizing Islam is racist?

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Yes, the Moors educated Europe, but the Arabs who forced Islam on them were both ignorant and illiterate. So Islam cannot take credit for what it did not do. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.

Simply put - no. Answer: read up on the history of regions such as medieval Syria, what we now call Iraq and the regions of Northern Africa. The region you obviously associate with Moors, since they came from there. But here's the thing. The ones settling on the Iberian peninsula were invaded by a different tribe of the same ethnicity. So Moors replaced Moors, not Arabs.

I would also look for persons like Avicenna, where he came from and what he stood for. Also compare the treatment of jews in the Islamic realms to their treatment in christian Europe.