Keep in mind that before Islam, Egyptian civilizations made many significant discoveries. Also, pagan tribes of the region, before Islam, bestowed substantially greater freedoms upon woman and even had woman leaders.
I believe the middle east might have been one of the most diverse, prosperous and advanced places in the world today if Islam never overtook its inhabitants. Being the earliest birth place of human civilization, and factoring in the massive achievements of the egyptians as a people, it only stands to reason that such a people would have been wildly successful.
Deviod the suffocation of Islam, lateral trade and cultural exchange would have been exponetially higher and technologies invented outside the middle east would have been intigrated immediately (as opposed to demonized) so that no lag would have occured. This of course assumes a relatively free system existing absent Islamic totalitarianism.
2007-02-27 11:10:06 · 8 answers · asked by PragmaticMan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Muslims invented arabic numerals" --
Wrong, those come entirely from the Hindus that were slaughtered by Muslims in the infamous "Arab Invasions of India". GOOGLE IT.
"I heard Muslims gave us math" -- Totally wrong. What we know as math, historically, comes almost entirely from Greeks, Egyptians, Hindus. Again, Islamic conquests overran all of these superior but more peaceful cultures and consequently attempted to take the credit for the innovation. GOOGLE IT.
2007-02-27 11:13:32 · update #1
Complete ignorance of history.
If it weren't for Islam .. there wouldn't be any modern civilisation ..
2007-02-27 11:23:12 · answer #1 · answered by Kimo 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I guess Reuters got it wrong also when they printed the story about muslims and discoveries. ;o)
By the way - perhaps you might want to remind everyone also that Islam came to stop a lot of atrocities that were being committed. The people had fallen into idolatry as well as many other things (i.e. drunken orgies, burying female children alive, having large numbers of wives, etc etc...) . Islam stopped all that. Muhammad didn't "rise to power" at all. He was chosen just like any other prophet was.
Perhaps you better do a bit more research before assuming such things.
2007-02-27 19:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by aali_and_harith 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The middle-east would be a better place if Muhammad never rose to power, but then again the west would be better if Jesus never rose to power either.
2007-02-27 20:21:06 · answer #3 · answered by jetthrustpy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people in the Middle East would be civilized people instead of murderous animals. Their children could be intelligent, happy, wonderful adults instead of hateful, soon to be killers. Wouldn't it be incredible if the children in the middle east were allowed to be happy children instead of having hate instilled in them every day.
2007-02-27 19:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by papricka w 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Peaceful, loving and content that they are followers of the ONLY God, and the ONLY Son of God. Mohammad was a false prophet and the Son of the One below the Earth. Because of him, millions of his followers will face the Wrath of the Living God, in our lifetime.
2007-02-27 19:13:41 · answer #5 · answered by Samuel Crow 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your vision of "What if" is interesting, but doesn't really count in the real world.
2007-02-27 19:12:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I presume that it would be different than it is today.
2007-02-27 19:19:31 · answer #7 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be alot quieter... and there would be many less dead people.
2007-02-27 21:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋