Susan - I won't stop

Submitted by Safraz (United States), Dec 31, 2006 at 02:30

Susan -

No one can argue that the Christian British Empire was one of the greatest civilizations to ever exist on the Earth. At one point, the sun never set on the British Empire. No one can argue that the British were also at the forefront of modern advancements from the arts, to scientific achievements to philosophy.

The catalyst of the British dominance was continental Europe and the European Renaissance. The European renaissance was jump started by European scholars who studied in Muslim Spain. Columbus knew the world was round, because he sailed with Arab Muslim sailors on the West African coast as a boy and they knew for centuries that it was round. The Arabs got their knowledge from the ancient Greeks. That is how civilizations work - they learn from each other.

Furthermore, as great as the Christian British Empire was - they are also responsible for one of the most inhumane slave transport systems in the world - the triangular trade of African slaves to the West Indies and to America. This was as inhumane as anything the Muslim Ottomans did.

This is why I say you are have a completely lack of perspective on history. How can you condemn the Muslim empires for slavery, when the Christian empires engaged in equally horrific slavery? How can you argue that the Muslim empires "stole" knowledge, when every great empire learns from its predecessors?

Safraz.

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