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Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?

Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:

• Coffee

• Cameras

• Experimental Physics

• Chess

• Soap

• Shampoo

• Perfume/spirits

• Irrigation

• Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons

• Combination locks

• Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)

• Surgical instruments

• Anesthesia

• Windmill

• Treatment of Cowpox

• Fountain pen

• Numbering system

• Algebra/Trigonometry

• Modern Cryptology

• 3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)

• Crystal glasses

• Carpets

• Checks

• Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.

• University
• Optics
• Music
• Toothbrush
• Hospitals
• Bathing
• Quilting
• Mariner’s Compass
• Soft drinks
• Pendulum
• Braille
• Cosmetics
• Plastic surgery
• Calligraphy
• Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.

It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.

It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.

It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.

It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.

It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.

It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey

It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.

It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.

The list goes on………..

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Andreas Brevik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!

Sources:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/world/muslim.inventions_1_hassani-inventions-muslim?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/files/Muslim-Invention-Article.pdf

BURN :)

 Forever reblog.

This is so brilliant that the only thing I can add is a semi-useless fact:

If you ever study astronomy, you’ll notice that many stars begin with the letters “Al.”  As in Aldebaran, Algol, Albireo, Alkaid, Alphecca, Algenib, Alpheratz…I could go on.  Why?  Because it’s an Arabic prefix.  While Europe was languishing in the dark ages, Muslim astronomers were mapping the skies and giving the stars names.

And of course, a lot of the accumulated “western” knowledge of the classical age is only around because it was preserved by Muslims.

Imagine a world without asshole bigots and terrorism.

 Oh god, this is a breath of fresh air compared to my house. My dad thinks there’s no such thing as Islamophobia because “phobias have to be irrational”.

Reblogging this again.

man I sure do love ignorant racist shit like this proven wrong.

I looove you tumblr.

That fact dump was so good I think I came.

Also I love how racists always conveniently leave out the fact that there were Muslims who lived in NYC and worked in the world trade center, and were killed just the same by those attacks. 

THIS.

I’d like to imagine a world without racists/Islamophobes.

-Jess

This is like the 30th time I’ve reblogged this same shit. 

1. It is not racist to oppose Islam. ISLAM IS NOT A RACE. Yes, there are people who use Islam as an excuse to hate people of Middle Eastern descent, but neither are all people with Middle Eastern ancestry Muslim nor are all Muslims of Middle Eastern descent. That geographical area has many diverse religious groups, including ancient Christian and Catholic sects, and Islam is a religion that is shared by people of all ethnicities across the world. 

2. It is not “Islamophobic” to oppose Islam. “Imagine a world without Muslims” it’s probably quite inaccurate for several reasons, but the fact remains that Islam- like all religions- has a very strong history of violence. Christianity does. Paganism does. Judaism does. At some point in their history, every religion that had control of a country practiced horrible, horrible things to people unfortunate enough to violate their religious behavior codes. What did the Jews do to the pagans? What did the pagans do to the Christians? What did the Christians do to the Jews? What did the Protestants do to the Catholics? What did the Muslims do to the Jews? What has every Abrahamic religion done to pagans and atheists? 

Islam is no fucking different. Being sentient about basic realities of oppression and violence is not “Islamophobic,” it’s being aware in life. Is it just to oppose Christianity for proudly and officially sponsoring mass violence against gays, women, and non-Christians? Then it is just to oppose Islam for proudly sponsoring the same sort of violence. 

As I said earlier, OP has many problems with it. If I had to pick just one, I’d say that the group that attacked the towers were more a political group using religion to further their ends than representatives of that religion. 

However, here’s my usual rebuttal to this post, especially the first placed post: if a person- Muslim or not- created something out of their own ingenuity, the creation belongs to them, and they are responsible for it personally. If they discovered it, it would have been discovered by someone else. In no way, shape, or form, is the fucking religion responsible for it. How absurd! Next, will they be saying how wonderful men are, given their awesome accomplishments? Well, that’s just as silly.  

Islam has nothing to do with people’s creativity or intelligence. It does have to do with officially-sponsored injustices, however; it’s a belief system, and its beliefs should be examined. 

Achievements by Muslims? How fucking irrelevant.