Is Boris wrong to claim Islam set the Muslim world back?
‘There must be something about Islam that indeed helps to explain why there was no rise of the bourgeoisie, no liberal capitalism and therefore no spread of democracy in the Muslim world.
‘It is extraordinary to think that under the Roman/Byzantine empire, the city of Constantinople kept the candle of learning alight for a thousand years, and that under Ottoman rule, the first printing press was not seen in Istanbul until the middle of the nineteenth century. Something caused them to be literally centuries behind.’
The Guardian, and Perraudin, along with the MCB and Tell Mama and various other
professional offence-takers think it not just outrageous but seriously provocative for someone to point this out.https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/07/is-boris-wrong-to-claim-islam-set-the-musli...All that Tell Mama, the MCB or anyone else needs to do is to prove that wherever and whenever the religion of Islam arrives in a society, that society sees a burgeoning of capitalism, democracy and the free exchange of ideas. It can’t be that difficult, can it?