What are the proud accomplishments of the Muslim religion?

Question

Besides tolerance, women's rights, democracy and the Muslim space program. What are the great achievments of Islam?

Answer 1

Of course, none of those things you mention have anything to do with religion. You couldn't claim them for Christianity either but as achievements of the western liberal concensus which has grown up under a Christian mind-set. On the other hand, the things you mention have appeared only very recently. Women's rights? Women have had the vote in the UK for less than eighty years, a guarantee to equal pay for less than thirty years. Democracy? Well, I don't suppose there were many Christians in the Athenian Republic. And, certainly in my life time, there wasn't much democracy around in Mississippi, for example, nor in Russia, nor in fiercely Christian South Africa.
And what is the Christian space programme? Certainly it couldn't have happened without algebra, - an Arabic word for an Arabic invention - like "alcohol". Distillation is also an Arabic invention and useful to things like rocket fuel. But it is strange that the Islamic world, which led the way in medicine, mathematics, astronomy, navigation and so many fields in mediaeval times, seems to have suffered such an amazing arrested development. If we could work out why, I think that would be useful for both the western and the Islamic world.

Answer 2

Most modern mathematics and astronomy are based on work by Islamic scholars, done when Christian Europe was living in the dark ages. Without Islamic scholars, the bulk of ancient Western philosophy, literature and history would likely have been lost.

Answer 3

Actually you dont have a brian if you thing tollerance and womens rights are...


Family honour killings, forced arranged marriage, killing agy people for enjoying each other.

Forcing the covering up of that which gives a woman power over a guy.

all the stonigs, support of female genital mutilation,

Murdering 200 over the nigrian Miss world silly competition.

Not allowing women to drive, have any job a guy can, in afganistn killing over women getting education and medical care...

Stonign to death for walking in a street without a male family member of husband...


Ie the muslim world acts like pimps, nasty ones dictating who a female has sex with.

suicide bombs which make no miltary sense.

terrorisim not in the name of freedom, but to introduce the oppression of sharia hack of limbs and stone people for dating law...


killing and battering teenagers for hangin out in mixed groups... those are a few of the invention...



Mate you have absolutely no idea what womens right or tollerance is... you resembel a cross between the nazis and spanish inquisition...


and the best bit... you are so deranged in your belief you must be right that you don't question your own system and admit its faults and fix them...



unlike islam at least christiainity whilst still evil gave up witch burning... you would insist on it simple as it said o in a book

Answer 4

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Answer 5

There may not be much to say on that subject, but the arabs gave us the number zero, mathematics, astonomy, algebra, translations of greek and roman works of literature etc. Not specifically muslim but quite some achievements?

Answer 6

To achieve anything in this life your have to take possession and responsibility for your own actions. Afraid it doesn't happen because everything is the will of Allah. Damn! I wish I had someone like that to blame everytime I screwed up!

Answer 7

I think there are a few scientific developments credited to the Moors (they invaded Spain I think) who followed Islam.

Answer 8

Hang on, I ain't saying Islam is fabulous, but what's any other religious setup ever done, other than scare its' adherents, induce them to kill the followers of other faiths, rake in loads of money and power, and feather the nests of its' top nobs?

Answer 9

Look up a Muslim by the name of 'Avicenna' (in english anyway) that should show you some :)

Answer 10

Wasn't blowing up the worlds largest Budah statue one of their greatest achievments? I think they would proudly proclaim that they destroyed one of the wonders of the new world.