Quote from Gubinec:
Where's yours? Nazis were just as Christian as Bin Laden is Buddhist. Paganism was one of the roots of the Nazi doctrine, that's pretty well known by any historian worth his salt.
What makes Christianity fundamentally different from Islam, is not how people interpreted and applied them, but what is written in their source.
Try to tell me that the Gospels and the Qur'an are similar in their message.
Since you are willing to ascribe every single invention under the sun to the oh-so-wise Muslims, I'll have to cut you off lest some you succeed in brainwashing gullible sheep into believing you.
Arabic numerals?
Cross that one out.
The only reason they're called Arabic, is because the Europeans first were introduced to them by Arabs.
The "Arabic" numerals were invented by the Hindus, and adopted by the Arabs.
That is a well-known fact, btw. But you didn't know it.
Double entry book-keeping?
Yet another "invention" that the Muslims try so hard to portray as a fruit of their civilization. There is NO evidence whatsoever that accounting as we know it today was ever used by the Muslims. NONE.
However, there is irrefutable proof that Pachioli invented, and put into writing, the modern principles of the double-entry bookkeeping system that we use today.
So there go your brilliant "Muslim inventions" down the toilet back into your fertile Muslim netherworld of timeless Muslims "inventions".
I am not even touching upon the fact that Arabs built and maintained one of the finest libraries of Classical works of Greece and Rome in their time, while that is certainly commendable, it also shows how much scientific knowledge they adopted, rather than invented.
Muslims certainly had their inventors, but your era of invention was short-lasted, and was over as soon as the Muslim doctrine became more settled, and started curbing the intellectual freedom of its followers. That is about 5-6 centuries after Islam's invention, and it's still in effect today, as is showcased by the utter backwardness of 100% of Muslim nations today.
1. So what? The point is Europe fell into the Dark Ages, and had no use for Arabic numerals. They had no use for it because they had fallen into a rut so deep that Charlemagne's revision of the currency left out gold entirely: it wasn't needed, because transactions simply weren't large enough to require it as a means of settlement.
2 - Nope. Double entry bookkeeping did indeed come out of Muslim business practice. Italy adopted a lot of things out of the Muslim world, because it was the first to have contact with them as they were the first to emerge out of the Dark Ages.
By the way, I'm not Muslim, so "your era of invention" doesn't apply. Ain't mine.
I'm merely attempting to point out to the antisocial trailer park inhabitants who infest this place that there is a world beyond the inadequately drained swamps they inhabit.