I am a classical historian, so admittedly my knowledge base is limited on the rise of Islam. However, it seems to me that after Muhammed the Arab world became the most cosmopolitian, well-educated, humanitarian, accepting, artistic, and innovative people of the middle ages (in western history). Islamic heros like the Prophet and Saladin made the European Christians look... well a lot like the Islamic world looks today. Please do not try to rationalize the acts and attitudes of the current Islamic world. Intent is meaningless, perception is everything.
I simply want to know how the Islamic world went from the most civilized to the most intolerant, backwards, uneducated, neolithic culture on the planet. No matter how blind you may be, it is undeniable that the middle east was better off under its heroes.
Leave your venom in you fangs, this is how I see the Muslim world because this is what it portrays, I am simply looking for some honest insight into Islam's fall from grace.
2007-09-08
22:04:06
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