“The fact that any of the knowledge accumulated by the ancient Greeks and Romans survived is a tribute, not to Muslim respect for knowledge, or to Muslim forbearance, or to Muslim’s intellectual curiosity, but, rather, to chance, since Muslims took great delight in destroying all of the books of the “unbelievers” that they could find …….”
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This is also a good argument opposing the concept that knowledge was stolen from the Muslims. You can steal and destroy books and works of art, but the people who made those things still retain the knowledge. Therefore, the clearly backward Muslim ‘Paradises’ never had the knowledge they claim had been theirs, because their people could have preserved the knowledge and recreated the books and art that the Muslims falsely claim had been taken from them by invaders.
