Re: Eye opener...
The same praise cannot be given to muslims today. Now, more than ever muslims have denounced education. Theology, our ancient acclaim has been shafted in muslim countries for utilitarian professions instead. Doctors, accountants, lawyers - not scientists, mathematicians, or philosophers. Ironic isnt it, our rise to fame is exactly what we avoid today. All of a sudden to challenge nature through investigation is labelled unislamic by radicals like you. Gone are the days of free, uninterrupted academia in muslim civilizations. Instead, progress has become distinctly unislamic. While we saw an islamic future full of technology and science, today we see technology and science to be threats. The ottomans, today the turks were muslim visionaries. Today, you'll bash them for their innovations. The very people who gave you a paragraph to brag about are the ones you despise and hate.
You praise past contemporaries in your ancient islamic rhetoric, yet you bash contemporary muslims. It seems you're more interested in replaying the ottoman conquests than freeing muslim scholars from the imposition of a restrictive islam.
Only the ignorant will look at such ancient achievements to bash modern day critics. They'll criticize revolutionaries who want to pull our people out of the basins of poverty and superstition and towards knowledge, education, science. Ignorant thinkers, like you for instance, dwell on our past accomplishments with the hope an entire world will rise up and congratulate us for having the greatest libraries known to man. You're living in the past, and for however long you bash contemporaries you'll be left reading history books and watching old documentaries on bbc.
I will have to agree a 190%