What have muslims contributed to our society that is so great? A couple of shitty rappers and stupid soccer players aside, for adults who like to watch men playing ball. All they brought is hate, violence, crime, sedition, and the worst religion on earth. Ok I exaggerate, they aren't all that bad. They also are massively antisemite, I give them that.
That's often what I ask multiculti and muslim apologists
The answer is usually something like "buh buh buh they invented the numeric zero and the scalpel so wihout them we wouldn't have computers or medicine!" or some retarded shit along the line. Retarded shits that are mostly not true on top of that btw.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/543139/posts
f late, I have heard several educators and politicians tell us that Islamic culture invented the numeric zero. In fact, this is not correct. One of the world's first universities was over 2,700 years ago located in Takshshila in North-western India where the zero was used. The historian Al Biruni, himself a Muslim, who wrote histories during the era of about 1030 AD including histories of India, acknowledged that the Arabs learned the use of zero from Brahmanic and Jain scholars of India. The basis of Arabic numerals, including their use of 'zero', originated in India and then about the 6th century the use of zero went to the Arab world for the first time, eventually this knowledge followed trade routes to the Arab and Islamic world and the shape of zero changed to a more familiar modern form which was commonly introduced into Europe for use in tallies and trade around the 10th century by the Moores in Spain. However, there is some evidence that zero was also introduced into Europe by other cultures as well, such as from Russia steppes, and also was indigenous to Celtic and Norse cultures, and Doric cultures. Who actually "invented" the numeric zero is actually a dilemma, it very well was likely "invented" indigenously multiple times by multiple cultures even though it was not in common use by the general population. However there is no question that historically the Islamic culture took the common use of zero from India and the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains of the Indian subcontinent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalpel#Ancient_scalpels
Obsidian scalpels older than 2100 BC have been found in a Bronze Age settlement in Turkey.[2] Skulls from the same time and place show signs of brain surgery.[3] Ancient Egyptians made incisions for embalming with scalpels of sharpened obsidian, a material that is still in use. The first medical writings of ancient Greeks indicate they were commonly using tools identical to today's scalpels around 500 BC.[4] Ancient Romans used more than 150 different surgical instruments, including scalpels.[5] Indian Ayurvedic medicine mentions the use of sharp bamboo splinters.[citation needed]
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Ok then, let's say they "conributed" a zero and a sharp blade at some point
What else?
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Easy jokes aside, they can be credited for helping to preserve the classical civilization (for real), but that's not something they did to give us a hand
The Muslim conquerors eventually came into possession of various Greek and Roman manuscripts. Rather than destroy these works, Muslim scholars carefully preserved them, translating them into Arabic, studying them, and in some cases building on ideas set down by the ancient writers in their own works.
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