Is Terrorism eventually going to be what bans Religion in the Western World?

[monocle_layton]

Ka-pi96 said:

monocle_layton said:

If Muslims are as evil as you portray them to be, we'd be dead a long time ago. There's 1.8 billion of them. If they truly wanted to get rid of us, they could've done it a long time ago. However, history shows that's not what they did. Even during the times of Caliphates, they always travelled to spread knowledge and to gain bonds with others- just look at the Golden Age.

islam didn't spread because of "knowledge or bonds", it spread through conquest. If it wasn't for the fact that the Europeans were able to beat them and push them back then perhaps they would have wiped us out...

I misspoke. 

 

They did gain power by conquering others. That isn't questioned at all. However, even when they did gain massive amounts of land, they gained connections to other countries (such as China) by exchanging information. 

Heck, the Golden Age is probably the best period in the history of Islam (or one of the best). 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

"The Muslim government heavily patronized scholars. The money spent on the Translation Movement for some translations is estimated to be equivalent to about twice the annual research budget of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council.^[16] The best scholars and notable translators, such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today.^[16] The House of Wisdom was a library established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq by Caliph al-Mansur.^[17]"

 

Let's hope the UAE starts a trend of seeking knowledge- the world really would be a better place if the current Muslim community was swapped with the one form the Golden Age.