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You say:
“The truth is, Christian Europe came within a couple of spears of being completely extinguished by the Muslims. And despite all the propaganda from CAIR, that would have meant no Renascence, and no science as we know it.

You heard me; science as we know is was a Judeo-Christian invention”

I think that’s highly debatable. One of the roots of the Renaissance was Europe’s rediscovery of mathematics and science, which had laid dormant in Europe for centuries, while they thrived in the Muslim world. They gave us algebra, and the numerals that we use, for a start.

From good old Wikipedia:
“In the 12th century, European scholars traveled to Spain and Sicily seeking scientific Arabic texts, including al-Khwārizmī’s The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, translated into Latin by Robert of Chester, and the complete text of Euclid’s Elements, translated in various versions by Adelard of Bath, Herman of Carinthia, and Gerard of Cremona.[98][99]

These new sources sparked a renewal of mathematics. Fibonacci, writing in the Liber Abaci, in 1202 and updated in 1254, produced the first significant mathematics in Europe since the time of Eratosthenes, a gap of more than a thousand years. The work introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe, and discussed many other mathematical problems.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics


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