a very ugly image

Submitted by susan (Italy), Jan 10, 2007 at 17:21

"Islam was the key influencer behind the advent of science, agriculture, politics, education, the Renaissance and was a driving force behind the European resurgence which leads directly to the European ‘coffee house' idealists, Newton, Greys Anatomy and to the Industrial Revolution. Spain went from being an arid desert to becoming the fruit garden of Europe under Islamic rule. Women were given the right to vote, inheritance and proprietary rights under Islam 1200 years before the West recognised any part of this issue."

and such a key influenter produced nowadays countries full of famine, hatred, war, poverty, misery, disease, intolerance, backwardness, unemployment, no critical thinking, no inventions, no capacity, no compassion, no love, no human rights?

LOL

Muslim women were given the right to be possessed by a male member of the family, and nothing else. And the thing hasn't changed for 1400 years!

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