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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by acqq on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:36PM (#12662429)
Note how "unislamic" (compared to the later stricter views) that so-called "Golden Age" was:

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

Richly illustrated. Versus

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

"For many years, Wahhabi clerics opposed the establishment of a television service in Saudi Arabia, as they believed it immoral to produce images of humans.[19] The introduction of television in 1965 offended some Saudis,[20] and one of King Faisal's nephews, Prince Khalid ibn Musa'id ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz,[21] was killed in a police shootout in August 1965 after he led an assault on one of the new television stations.[20]"

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