(November 4, 2015 at 12:39 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 4, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: 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.
Arabia is in Asia not North Africa. The Arabs invaded North Africa, colonizing the Berbers and forcing Islam onto them. The Moors are the children of miscegenation between the Arabs and the Berbers. Bottom line, it was the Moors not the Arabs who brought education to the rest of the world. So you cannot give Islam credit.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.