RE: Criticizing Islam is racist?
November 4, 2015 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2015 at 2:28 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(November 4, 2015 at 1:26 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Bottom line, it was the Moors not the Arabs who brought education to the rest of the world. So you cannot give Islam credit.
I'm sure the Chinese and the Indians would have quite a laugh reading this sentence. I believe you meant to write "brought education to Europe". At any rate, Islam penetrated Europe in the Balkan peninsula as well as the Iberian, meaning that Moors weren't the only transmission-route of Islamic culture; Turks as well imported knowledge from Arabia to Europe.
And Arabs did much to foster the advancement of knowledge and society in Europe, even if they weren't the direct transmitters. They invented the lateen sail, allowing ships to tack closer against the wind. They preserved much of the knowledge of the Greeks when the Catholic Church was busy expunging it. They imported the concept of zero from the Indians, and exported it to Europe. They invented algebra. Further information to be found in these wiki-links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in...amic_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy_...eval_Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophthalmol...eval_Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_...eval_Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_in...amic_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematic...eval_Islam
