{"id":846,"date":"2010-05-26T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=846"},"modified":"2010-05-26T08:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:51:44","slug":"no-islamic-%e2%80%9cgolden-age%e2%80%9d-ever-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"No Islamic \u201cGolden Age\u201d Ever Existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why don\u2019t Muslims want us to know their history, their \u201chidden\u201d history?\u00a0 Because it is far different from the <strong>Islamic Infomercial<\/strong> of our day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c\u2026the entire concept of an Islamic Golden Age, the three centuries between the seventh and tenth centuries during which the Muslim world enjoyed an altogether higher level of culture than <\/em><em>Europe<\/em><em>, is little more than a myth.\u00a0 The Golden Age of Islam, as archaeologists have found to their astonishment, has no archeological confirmation.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Muslims had <em>\u201cdestroyed Classical civilization in <\/em><em>Europe<\/em><em> through an economic blockade, but in the <\/em><em>Middle East<\/em><em>, they destroyed it deliberately and methodically.\u201d<\/em> See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2010\/05\/the_fate_of_the_library_of_ale.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Vikings in Northern  Europe, the Muslims, throughout the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East, plundered towns and cities, destroyed churches, monasteries, and libraries, murdered the men and made slaves of the women and children.<\/p>\n<p>The actual history is well established; it has never been refuted.\u00a0 It is simply <strong>ignored.<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A current example is the newly opened exhibit at the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, of a thousand years of Muslim science, described as \u201cIslam\u2019s \u2018forgotten story.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 With striking candor, to be sure unwittingly, the \u201cforgotten story\u201d is derivative, dependent on others.<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"8\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>See Bat Ye\u2019or, <em>The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude<\/em>, 1996., and John J. O\u2019Neill, <em>Holy Warriors: Islam and the Demise of Classical Civilization<\/em>, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> BBC Radio 4, Today, \u201cIslam\u2019s \u2018forgotten story,\u2019\u201d 5\/24\/2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don\u2019t Muslims want us to know their history, their \u201chidden\u201d history?\u00a0 Because it is far different from the Islamic Infomercial of our day. \u201c\u2026the entire concept of an Islamic Golden Age, the three centuries between the seventh and tenth centuries during which the Muslim world enjoyed an altogether higher level of culture than Europe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}