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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Religion is not the problem, intolerance is.

In medieval times, the Inquisition made Catholicism an extreme and intolerant way of life, while the Arab world flourished in the arts, medicine and sciences because Islam was a tolerant and unifying force.

Now things are reversed, but it should teach us that rejection of others and refusal to accept progress and science are ALWAYS a recipe for disaster.

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The facts say otherwise.

How "tolerant" is:  You Jews and Christians can convert or become our dhimmi; you Pagans, Buddhists, and Hindus can convert or die.

If that's news to you, you're getting the "sunshine and bunnies" version of Islam.   Unpleasant facts omitted to secure your approval.

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain, Dario Fernandez-Morera,
Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portugese at Northwestern University, c 2016

and

The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam From Jihad to Dhimmitude, Bat Ye'or with a foreword by Jacques Ellul c 1996.

There is an entire industry devoted to apologizing for Islam, contrary historical fact be damned.  Thousands of under-informed people buy the misinformation while remaining resolutely resistant to contrary facts.

By the way, Mecca before the Prophet was a caravan and pilgrimmage town (they were polytheistic, they attracted pilgrims) but they were not the intellectual center Damascus, Baghdad and Persia were.

The timeline was:  first the Islamic conquests.   {Then} the Golden Age.   Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Iraq, Iran...India...etc.

The "Golden Age of Islam" happened due to conquered scholars who were given the choice:  dhimmitude and we take credit for your work or death.

Hey Mr. Administrator: do historical facts matter to you or do you summarily delete anything that you, from your apologism, disagree with?
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