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Originally Posted by Danny Z  and re-butchered by Islam, it seems Islam is a double edged sword, or maybe Islam has nothing to do with being democratic or not let alone Christianity for that matter. |
Democracy was not butchered by "Islam", Islam is still what it was like when it came and took Arabia from nothing to everything. What you have in the Arab world is not Islam, it's western imposed dictatorships that brought ignorance to the people and as a result we have what we have. Islam the knowledge and books is not Islamic regimes. They all violate for political purposes. There is nothing more just than Islam the religion. It's beautiful.
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Originally Posted by Danny Z Pythagoras was born in 580 BC, that is around 1300 years before Islam, Archimedes 287 BC, these are the few I can remember now. For some people history started on Valentine's day of 2005 for some others with Islamic scholars, however fanatics have one thing in common: they're all boxed and refuse to think outside this box, which makes it hard for people who live outside their box to discuss with them. |
Where did I imply that people started loving each other when Valentino's mum gave birth to him? Knowledge has been passed down and we all know where it started, I didn't say otherwise. Point is, Islam not only stamped out paganism, but gave the Arabs the boost to take the knowledge from those before them and develop it while the world was sinking in ignorance. It did not come to take the people back, on the contrary, their nations flourished in science, art, literature, architecture...etc because of Islam. Speaking of Islam and science in an attempt to isolate the two is comical.
What's even more comical is how you immediately resort to the term "fanatic" when addressing someone who speaks of religion, especially when you're addressing me.