What is true is that the Islamic world helped keep alive certain bodies of knowledge. It was not just the Muslims, but the Hindus, the idependent monastries of the Celtic Christians in Britain, Ireland and Western France, the coptic Christians of Egypt and Ethiopia, the Nazarenes of Armenia and of course The Jews that kept alive mathematics, art, history, the healing arts, the natural sciences.
Most of what Obama credited the Muslim for was actually around before Islam came on the scence. But let’s be fair, at least the Muzzas saw the value of those things. The mainstream Christians would have destroyed all knowledge (they burned the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of literature in the ancient world because it contained stuff that “was not of God”) The real forces for darkness in this world have been The Roman Empire and Roman Catholic / Protestant Christianity, the Romans because they were control feaks and the Chistians because they knew the value of keeping their congeregation in ignorance.
So yeah, Obama is an imbecile when it comes to history but no more an imbecile than many people. History just isn’t taught properly any more.
