Maged and the Greek learning

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 24, 2008 at 07:04

This is just an addendum: I forgot to tell Maged that the Arabic/Islamic civilization would not have been possible without the translations of the Greek learning by the likes of Hunein ibn Ishaq who was Nestorian (Iraqi Christian) and not muslim. Why did Muslims not translate such work? Because they were busy looting infidels instead of learing a language and in this case Greek

So much for the arabs and their civilization

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