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The Lie of Islamic Intellectual AchievementContrary to popular myth, Islam was never the foundation of significant cultural or scientific development. Indeed, there was a time when Islamic culture was more advanced than that of Europe, but that superiority corresponded directly with the period when Muslims were able to learn from and copy the achievements of Byzantium and other conquered civilizations. For example, the architectural design of mosques, a source of pride among Muslims, was copied from the shape and structure of Byzantine churches. Another indication of Islam’s inability to advance culture and science is its prohibition of music and artistic renderings of the human form.While there are countless examples of how and why Islam opposes human progress, the primary source of its backwardness is the Quran. Muslims consider it the perfect book and source of all truth and knowledge. As a result, the majority of Muslims concluded long ago they simply did not need knowledge originating in other sources, and certainly not that which came from infidels. Therefore, after they stole what they could from Byzantium and Persia, and after they forced sufficient numbers of Jews and Christians to convert to their religion, or accept its brutal oppression, Islam descended into intellectual stagnation, from which it has not yet emerged.
The Lie of Islamic Intellectual Achievement
Contrary to popular myth, Islam was never the foundation of significant cultural or scientific development. Indeed, there was a time when Islamic culture was more advanced than that of Europe, but that superiority corresponded directly with the period when Muslims were able to learn from and copy the achievements of Byzantium and other conquered civilizations. For example, the architectural design of mosques, a source of pride among Muslims, was copied from the shape and structure of Byzantine churches. Another indication of Islam’s inability to advance culture and science is its prohibition of music and artistic renderings of the human form.
While there are countless examples of how and why Islam opposes human progress, the primary source of its backwardness is the Quran. Muslims consider it the perfect book and source of all truth and knowledge. As a result, the majority of Muslims concluded long ago they simply did not need knowledge originating in other sources, and certainly not that which came from infidels. Therefore, after they stole what they could from Byzantium and Persia, and after they forced sufficient numbers of Jews and Christians to convert to their religion, or accept its brutal oppression, Islam descended into intellectual stagnation, from which it has not yet emerged.
