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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (121652)9/24/2012 12:25:58 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
Christians were the majority in Egypt when it was invaded, yes - invaded - by Arab Muslims, who now refer to it as an Arab country and keep the Coptic Christians in a lower position, as well as other native people there.

It was the height of the Islamic empire which stretched from S. Spain to Pakistan; from Hungary to the Sudan and Somalia. They invented the hospital; developed the concept of zero; performed eye surgery; invented books; discovered coffee; undertook the first glider flight; learned to irrigate the land to produce more crops; they dabbled in chemistry, creating new compounds; developed trigonometry and advanced astronomy and promoted advancements in architecture. Baghdad was its capital where to this day there is still a street called Book Street which is where the world's first books were sold. All this happened while most Christians and Europeans went to bed with fleas and lived in abject poverty during the Dark Ages.

Islam's most beautiful city, Cordoba, Spain, is still an incredible city:

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