Winston Churchill and Islam

Re:Winston Churchill and Islam by nashashmi on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:35PM (#10724448)

> "Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled"

I think this means that Christianity is "tamed" by the doubts science has laid on it. And that science does not seem to reign Islam much.

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Re:Winston Churchill and Islam by gotchange on Saturday December 12, 2015 @06:06PM (#10724557)

Muslims embraced science before Christians ever thought about it and Al-Andalus rule in Iberia and the scientific development overseen by Muslims there is a great testament to my viewpoint. Furthermore, Islam had a reformation movement albeit unsuccessful hundreds of years [0] before Christendom is engulfed in reformation debates (wars).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%CA%BFtazila

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Re:Winston Churchill and Islam by dogma1138 on Saturday December 12, 2015 @10:23PM (#10725289)

Yes but as the Christian world was coming out of the dark ages the Islamic world went into one and has yet to emerge from it.

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