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To: i-node who wrote (797292)	7/26/2014 6:40:03 PM
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Greece annually translates five times more books from English than the entire Arab world It is what happens when you let the fundamentalists take over. During the Islamic Golden Age, the Muslims were reaching new cultural and technological peaks while Europe was struggling with the concept of zero. Technology, science, medicine and mathematics were all areas they brought to heights unknown before. The were building massive libraries and translating the world's knowledge from the Egyptians to the Greeks and Chinese into Arabic and accommodated people of all faiths or no faiths and all races. Their trade routes connected all of the Old World. While Europe was struggling through the Dark Ages and the dominion of the Church. But, between the Crusades and the Mongols, the libraries were burned and the universities destroyed. The Caliphate was fragmented and the fundamentalists took over. And the Islamic world has been stuck in their Dark Ages ever since.