We are often told of the greatness of the Islamic Golden Age. But how much actual gold was there? And why does Islam do so poorly in intellectual work today?
Bill Warner, Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam
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July 1, 2014
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Regress is the reverse of progress, so Islam cannot evolve. Moslems think all perfection is in the past and that by behaving like a 7th century desert raider they can become perfect.
They are therefore uncomfortable with Western values of progress liberation and wish to destroy them by imposing strict theocratic totalitarianism as Islam did to culture, science and literature during the supposed Islamic Golden Age. Islam is the ideology that crushed the life out of the brief period of openness. The mullahs and caliphs then shut it permanently down.
The map leaves out all the wars that are being fought between European feudal kings and Vikings incursions.
It leaves out the sacking and conquest of Constantinople and Jerusalem by Europeans eleventh century.
I think an accurate map would show an Islamic civilization largely at peace internally, and the world outside of Islam ravaged by almost constant feudal warfare.