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Subject: Re: Islam (long but informative)
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 15:58:00 EDT
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>	I never said that they contributed to Greek Civilization,
>the time frame is all wrong.  After all Mohammad live in about
>1000 A.D. and Socrates drank in the hemlock in 454 B.C.  Since
>the Islamic civilization was 1500 years after the golden age
>of Greece, it does not make sense to think of how Islam could
>have contributed to the ancient Greek civilization.

>	The Islamic people took the books of the Greeks and kept them.
>The Christians in Europe burned them books.   After the worst part
>of the "dark ages" the books were reintroduced to Europe.   During
>the dark ages, the Islamic civilization invented Algebra and so 
>on . . .
-- 
>Don Steiny @ Don Steiny Software

I am sorry. I absolutely agree with you. All Islamic people
contributed a lot to civilization, and no one disagrees with this.
What I meant in my previous responce was that only the Turks
have never created or contributed anything but only distroyed
(and they continue to do that) whatever they find in their pass.
They definitely contributed and still contribute barbarians to humanity.