(December 14, 2013 at 7:40 pm)Nineteen Wrote:(December 14, 2013 at 7:00 pm)feeling Wrote: Syria, Byzantine, Egypt(pretty damn advanced to the time if you ask me),Italy, the remains of the Alexandria library(biggest library in the world at the time) was destroyed under orders of Caliph Omar who stated “If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them.”
Source
http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2010/...lexandria/
Also I found only one muslim scientist who contributed to islamic golden age but his religion is under question and there are still disputes. Those 2 who made biggest contributions however are Omar Khayyám and Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī first being agnostic hedonist and latter being adherent of the Zoroastarianism.
As for making somebody muslim by force it means taking away privelages from non muslims while giving privelages to the muslims or inducing sanctions on non muslims.
Egypt and Syria were ruled by Byzantine for long time before the muslims and Byzantine Empire had only a few scientists , 2 or 3 . So we can understand that this scientific developments and golden age has been through the efforts of Muslims .
Why you behave sided according to your intrests ? There is no such a cetain belief that the library was destroyed by Omar . The big part of histarians thinks that it was destroyed by Pagans or Caesar and many historians reject the view that it was burned by muslims. (wikipedia)
It was destroyed partially by Caesar before Omar. But Omar burned down the rest of it. Pagans? Never heard that.
Behave sided? That's just hypocritical.
Also provide sources which state that byzantine had only few scientists and the muslim scientists which contributed to the golden age. I could find only one.