Anti-Muslim revisionist History

I suppose it stands to reason that given the right-wing blogosphere's current anti-Muslim efforts, they wouldn't be limited to tendentious interpretations of current events, but have moved on to a version of history where Muslims are responsible for everything bad, and nothing good:

PapaBear3625 knows everything Islam did was because of their genius slaves:

Islamic civilization went into decline after their expansion was halted, and the supply of loot and slaves was curtailed. They didn't recover until a new source of unearned wealth came along: oil.

Misterioso knows Mohammed well:

Mohammed recognized philosophy and science as a threat to his mission.

Mount Athos quibbles that some Muslim advances were Persain, not Arab!

The article you posted says “It may be stated that algebra and both plane and spherical trigonometry were Arab developments.”

The article is wrong though, it was a Persian not Arab with the algebra advances — Al-Khwarzimi...

Cyber Liberty agrees - don't be Islamophobic, be racist!

I don’t want to conflate “Arabs” with “Muslims.” Arabs are quite capable of amazing cruelty without the excuses for it provided by Islam. It’s a case of the 99% making the 1% look bad (please note the order in which I placed those stats).

Hardraade:

The arabs picked the few things their brains were capable of understanding, and that they could use for murder.

Nothing more.

Murder - by Astronomy and philosophy!

BCW posits secret non-Muslim books that the Muslims read and then burned:

Arabs that used what minimal books available - transcribed those over to Arabs - took credit - and destroyed the originals. Even if Arabs did add on the established sciences and mathematics - they did so due to non-Arab’s before them.

ckilmer explains that the Dark Ages were actually because of Muslims:

From the Gates of Vienna is a well researched video that makes the points that the downfall of classical civilization didn’t happen because of Goths or the Germans but rather the Moslems circa 640 AD.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-we-are-afraid-1400-year-secret.html

Fred Nerks has a long copypasta from some Peter BetBasoo anti-Muslim pro-Assyrian character. Here are some highlights:

You state, “its architects designed buildings that defied gravity.” I am not sure what you are referring to, but if you are referring to domes and arches, the fundamental architectural breakthrough of using a parabolic shape instead of a spherical shape for these structures was made by the Assyrians more than 1300 years earlier, as evidenced by their archaeological record.

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You state, “Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.” This is a bit melodramatic. In fact, the astronomers you refer to were not Arabs but Chaldeans and Babylonians (of present day south-Iraq), who for millennia were known as astronomers and astrologers, and who were forcibly Arabized and Islamized — so rapidly that by 750 A.D. they had disappeared completely.

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You state, “its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.” There is very little literature in the Arabic language that comes from this period you are referring to (the Koran is the only significant piece of literature), whereas the literary output of the Assyrians and Jews was vast. The third largest corpus of Christian writing, after Latin and Greek, is by the Assyrians in the Assyrian language (also called Syriac; see here.)

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Arab/Islamic civilization is not a progressive force, it is a regressive force; it does not give impetus, it retards. The great civilization you describe was not an Arab/Muslim accomplishment, it was an Assyrian accomplishment that Arabs expropriated and subsequently lost when they drained, through the forced conversion of Assyrians to Islam, the source of the intellectual vitality that propelled it. What other Arab/Muslim civilization has risen since? What other Arab/Muslim successes can we cite?

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Even in America this Arabization policy continues. On October 27th a coalition of seven Assyrian and Maronite organizations sent an official letter to the Arab American Institute asking it to stop identifying Assyrians and Maronites as Arabs, which it had been deliberately doing.

There are minorities and nations struggling for survival in the Arab/Muslim ocean of the Middle East and Africa (Assyrians, Armenians, Coptics, Jews, southern Sudanese, Ethiopians, Nigerians...), and we must be very sensitive not to unwittingly and inadvertently support Islamic fascism and Arab Imperialism, with their attempts to wipe out all other cultures, religions and civilizations. It is incumbent upon each one of us to do our homework and research when making statements and speeches about these sensitive matters.