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Actually, there isn’t one guy who made up the Islamic Golden Age. It is a myth that has been floating around at least since the middle of the nineteenth century, when the British tried to blunt popular resistance to their alliance with the Ottoman Turks against the Russians in the Crimean War by spreading the falsehoods that Islam was a religion of peace and that Muslims had originated a great deal of what we think of as the modern world.
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abu taleb says
My understanding of the Islamic Golden Age is the beginning of Islam when Islam swept the Middle East and North Africa, I believe many muslims will say the period as their Islamic Golden Age,
But I counter by saying Islam was spread by sword during the conquest of Middle East and North Africa, if muslims admit it i was the Islamic Golden Age, then they have to admit that Islam allows violence to spread Islam. So far, no muslim gives any response to my argument.
Raja says
Abu, For them the golden age is hegemony or subduing the non-believers, as their world-view or definitions are diametrically opposite to the rest of the world. They have been conditioned to think and act ( react is more appropriate word for them) this way. Islam has forayed into more regions but has faced stiff resistance in Greece and Spain though it took several centuries to evict them, the former taking about 400 and the latter 700.
Now the West is a sitting duck because of negative population growth and having become zombies thanks to the Lefty indoctrination. Islam is “on the march” because of its violent nature and conquest mentality brainwashed by mullahs and others who have backed up all kinds of lies/propaganda to keep the flock belligerent. This is more ominous since seventies because of oil boom wherein they (being dumb and incapable of reasoning) think “their” oil is a super magic stuff that runs vehicles etc.*an uncle of mine told me this*
David Rasch says
The islamic goldsen age is backed up with violence up to death.
Billy says
Islam and its Muslims have historically waged a Reign of Terror against all the Non-Muslims, never any Golden Age, where Muslim discrimination, deceit, segregation, violence, and terrorism reigned over the Non-Muslims as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Genocidal Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.). DO NOT PUBLICLY FUND Islam and its Muslim Organizations!
Public Funding is a privilege that should NOT BE granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Totalitarian Islam and its Muslim Organizations including Muslim Schools and Mosques are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, hatred, rape, violence, totalitarianism, and terrorism against Non-Muslims to make Islamic Law supreme WITH NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).