In spite of Islam

Submitted by Ron Thompson (United States), Jan 22, 2013 at 17:19

I think this is very well said. It has long seemed to me that if any accomplishments in the sciences or arts ever came out of any country otherwise suffocating under Islam, it was always in spite of the religion, never because of it.

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