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University of Columbias Arabic and Islamic Studies prof George Saliba said Muslim philosophy was the impetus behind Islamic science that had contributed to various disciplines including botany, zoology, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physics, chemistry, physiology and mathematics in the pre-industrial era. He said the use of decimal fractions was not a Western invention and that it was discovered by a Muslim scientist. He said the binary system, on which the computer was based, was also invented by a Muslim scientist. He said Arab/Islamic science was not an intermediary between Greek science and European science, but was rather the Renaissance that integrated the Islamic science with European science.

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If Muslims are "crossophobic" to that extent how on planet earth could they have helped develop algebra or trigonometry?

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Anyway, it is apostacy for any Muslims not declared (what's the right word, Ulema? ) to even have this discussion with us infidels. This poster could be hunted down and beaten by members of his own religion for his presumptuousness.

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The "Arabic" numbering system, which actually came from India, and the writings of Bramhagupta were translated into Arabic around 700AD or so.

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So many so-called Islamic discoveries were actually the work of those whom the muslims/arabs conquered and were re-cast as "muslim" discoveries.

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Did you know that 200 years after domed mosques were first built in dar al islam there were NO Muslims capable of figuring out the stresses on the curves of the domes?
Byzantinian slaves (called "Dhimmi's, like all slaves who are not Muslims) had designed, engineered and built all of those beautiful domed buildings.

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