The West Owes Islam Nothing

I don’t know what’s worse, junk science or junk history. There is unending propaganda about an Islamic Golden Age of the past that today's Islamists want to recreate. Much the same as a century ago, fables about an “Aryan super-race” long before Western Christianity motivated a lethal totalitarianism. Neither is true, of course, and obscures the amazing story of how Western Civilization got us to where we are. A good example is a recent podcast by Tharik Hussain, a Muslim travel writer praising the contributions of Muslim Cordoba to Europe. The best evidence this chap offered was an odd paean...