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Re: Islam's gift to Europe

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups soc.culture.jewish, nz.politics, can.general, soc.culture.israel
Subject Re: Islam's gift to Europe
Date 2026-06-02 00:06 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <10vl6pg$2j8gl$4@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <10vi7vi$bml$1@pcls7.std.com> <10vinv8$1tv5d$2@dont-email.me> <10vj1u8$ud1$1@pcls7.std.com> <10vjanm$224nq$1@dont-email.me> <10vjilq$scn$1@pcls7.std.com>

Cross-posted to 4 groups.

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On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 09:16:42 +0000 (UTC), rjac@shell02.TheWorld.com wrote:

> In article <10vjanm$224nq$1@dont-email.me>,
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Remember why they call it the "Dark Ages"?
>>
>> While the Islamic world was learning from the past and building on
>> that to make its own discoveries, the Christian world’s idea of
>> “learning” was making endless over-decorated copies of their holy
>> book.
>
> Yeah, yeah. But the Christian world snapped out of it, about
> 500 years ago. The Muslim world did not.

And today, it seems some rather significant Christian nations want to
return to those times, with science denialism on the rise.

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Islam's gift to Europe NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy> - 2026-05-31 21:08 +0000
  Re: Islam's gift to Europe Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-01 01:38 +0000
  Re: Islam's gift to Europe Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-01 01:40 +0000
    Re: Islam's gift to Europe NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy> - 2026-06-01 04:31 +0000
      Re: Islam's gift to Europe Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-01 07:01 +0000
        Re: Islam's gift to Europe NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy> - 2026-06-01 09:16 +0000
          Re: Islam's gift to Europe Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-02 00:06 +0000
        Re: Islam's gift to Europe Michael Ejercito <MEjercit@HotMail.com> - 2026-06-01 08:24 -0700
          Re: Islam's gift to Europe Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-02 00:07 +0000
  Re: Islam's gift to Europe Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-01 01:45 +0000
    Re: Islam's gift to Europe NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy> - 2026-06-01 04:52 +0000

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