This is especially sad if you happen to read A.K Warder's chapter on the utter destruction and annihilation of Universities in ancient India ('Indian Buddhism' => http://books.google.com/books?id=sE8MgUVGNHkC&lpg=PA479&... - places where logic, mathematics, (invention of zero, etc.) linguistics, grammar, astronomy etc etc where taught to students from all over Asia - as early as 400 AD. Many of the scientific discoveries of Islam where results of plundering and exterminating scientific endeavors in other more peaceful cultures.