Stop the Muslim bashing! Lets name all the good they do . (states, claim)

[JohKnip]

Originally Posted by ArkansasTraveler

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Muslim man around - watch your 1 and a 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 and 11...

You might want to post the part of the article where it shows these 3 shooters are Muslim otherwise I don't see the point this has in the thread. Also this is four people out of 10,000 to 20,000 Muslims in the United States Military so unless you think these Muslims (which I would still like to see where these articles say they are Muslims) represent all the other 9,996 to 19,996 then this really means nothing. Also if you think 4 represent that many....

[altlover85]

Originally Posted by JohKnip

You might want to post the part of the article where it shows these 3 shooters are Muslim otherwise I don't see the point this has in the thread. Also this is four people out of 10,000 to 20,000 Muslims in the United States Military so unless you think these Muslims (which I would still like to see where these articles say they are Muslims) represent all the other 9,996 to 19,996 then this really means nothing. Also if you think 4 represent that many....

I wasn't sure about his point. Thanks for clearing it up.

[scarlet_ohara]

A Muslim is a believer of Islam

The funniest things about this thread:

1. Leftist attempts to credit religious faith for advances in science and math, and

2. The leftist link to a site devoted to Muslim inventions - religious inventions - in science and technology.

When a person of Christian or Jewish faith invents something, does that something then become a Christian or Jewish invention?


Holy cow, Liberalism really is a mental disorder!

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by westwaswon

Stop the Muslim bashing! Lets name all the good they do .
Ok , they have helped the United States so much by ... um...well...


I'll be thinking you others can post as many times as you would like .

They have made possible many jobs for USA citizens in the form of weapons manufacturing and war related industries, security and related companies are thriving due to Muslim extremists.immigration jobs are probably on the rise as muslims seem to be coming over here by the proverbial boat loads and these new immigrants are paying taxes to the USA, Construction and related industries are probably doing better busness due to the demand for supplies and skilled labor for all the Mosques going up around America.
So i guess they are helping, you just have to look at the bigger picture.

Holy cow, Liberalism really is a mental disorder!

In your opinion,
heres mine =
Holy cow, conservatism really is a mental disorder!

[Neuling]

Originally Posted by charolastra00

But for actual things:
-algebra
-alcohol as an antiseptic
-clinical trials
-coffee (or at least the discovery of it's use and the domestication of the crop)
-chess
-surgery
-windmills
-shampoo and modern standards of hygiene
-the numbers system we use today
-Spanish is SIGNIFICANTLY influenced by Arabic

None of you go a single day without using at least one or two of these inventions.

At least some of those things were not invented by Muslims or Arabs. Our number system came from India, from where Arabs adopted it. Chess was invented in China and came to the West via Iran. Windmills have been around for centuries before Islam, probably having originated in Greece or Babylonia. The influence of Arabic on Spanish is basically limited to the Spanish vocabulary, to which Arabic contributed about 8%. Many of those words are not frequently used, though, as either there are original Spanish synonyms to many of them or they are very specialized words whose use is hardly ever required. Many normal Spaniards don't even know them. Really widespread words of Arabic origin such as azúcar for sugar (obviously even the English sugar and the German Zucker come from the same Arabic word) are not that numerous.

Not so sure about the other things you mentioned. I'd rather not start to investigate...

The point is, though, do people have to invent something important if they don't want to be bashed?

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by altlover85

Yeah, I think we've shown the positive contributions of Muslims. What else is there to say?

I don't think anyone has mentioned the food carts on the streets of Manhattan where you can get a tasty lunch at a good price.

[oz in SC]

Originally Posted by Indurain

Excellent post.

Yes, their work in the fields of mathematics and astronomy is particularly important.

Europe had started to enter the Dark Ages and the Arabs especially kept alive a lot of the information garnered from the Roman and Greek civilisation.

In many ways the Arab/Muslim world was way ahead of Europe by the 12th/13th centuries.

Those of us here in Europe naturally have a greater knowledge and understanding of this issues than the majority of americans.

So it was European civilisations that actually did the hard work,Islam simply took the credit...gotcha...

[oz in SC]

This will be dismissed out of hand by the usual suspects,but an interesting read on how Muslim conquest of Christian lands in the Mediterranean lead to less knowledge and learning...

American Thinker: The Fate of the Library of Alexandria

[malamute]

Originally Posted by oz in SC

This will be dismissed out of hand by the usual suspects,but an interesting read on how Muslim conquest of Christian lands in the Mediterranean lead to less knowledge and learning...

American Thinker: The Fate of the Library of Alexandria

If Muslims were capable of contributing anything, there wouldn't be a mass exodus out of their lands, leaving their Islamic paradises to Europe and the USA. They are overbreeding and incapable of supporting their bulging populations that would starve to death in their own countries with their own inventions.

You sure don't see thousands of people moving to Islamic countries.

Muslims only have the oil. They owe everything they have to oil and the Western inventions that use their oil. Without oil, Islam would be just some silly Midde East desert cult.

[TKramar]

Originally Posted by scarlet_ohara

When a person of Christian or Jewish faith invents something, does that something then become a Christian or Jewish invention?

When the entire culture belongs to that faith, then yes. The Galil is a Jewish invention, many torture devices were Catholic inventions.