Never mind that the Islamic world was light years ahead of the West - most especially the tree worshiping Hun - for most of recorded history.
As Betrand Russell wrote in 'A History of Western Civilization':
"To us, it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. Most of the cultural content of our civilization comes to us from the Eastern Mediterranean, from Greeks and Jews. As for power; Western Europe was dominant from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome - say, roughly, during the six centuries from 200 B.C. to 400 A.D. After that time (until the Renaissance), no state in Western Europe could compare in power with China, Japan, or the Caliphate."
Yet racism and privilege is so deeply buried in the mind of the Western ruling class, their inevitable fall from absolute power will probably bring the modern world to all out war.1'Official's views on Muslim immigration divide Germany' - Washington Post
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