Jewish success, Islamic stagnation

by Chris Bertram on October 19, 2003

Unsurprisingly Mahathir Mohamad's speech to the Islamic summit has met with outrage in the blogosphere. And quite right too, since his remarks about the Jews are pretty vile. But there's a kernel of interest in what the bigot has to say. He's worried about the historical transformation of Islam's fortunes. After all, as he says:

The early Muslims produced great mathematicians and scientists, scholars, physicians and astronomers etc. and they excelled in all the fields of knowledge of their times, besides studying and practising their own religion of Islam. As a result the Muslims were able to develop and extract wealth from their lands and through their world trade, able to strengthen their defences, protect their people and give them the Islamic way of life, Addin, as prescribed by Islam. At the time the Europeans of the Middle Ages were still superstitious and backward, the enlightened Muslims had already built a great Muslim civilisation, respected and powerful, more than able to compete with the rest of the world and able to protect the ummah from foreign aggression. The Europeans had to kneel at the feet of Muslim scholars in order to access their own scholastic heritage.

More:

http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/jewish-success-islamic-stagnation/

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