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struggle4progress

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40. Then, in the next paragraph, "Great indeed is the crime against religion committed by anyone

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 03:01 PM

Aug 2016

who supposes that Islam is to be championed by the denial of these mathematical sciences"

To judge the sense of thousand year-old text from a translation, one probably should not pull out a single sentence; and one should also exercise some restraint in claiming that such a sentence has influenced Muslims for the next thousand years, up to the present day, when there are about 1.6 billion of them, scattered around the world -- especially since Islam is a rather diverse religion, which has no central authority

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#40 in your reply. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #38

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That it is. forest444 Aug 2016 #20

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