2 Feb 2026 9:52 am
Devil's Advocate arg is that the Islam that produced scientific progress may not be (is very likely not) equivalent to the Islam practiced today.Vegas » 02 Feb 2026, 10:06 am » wrote: ↑ If progress were incompatible with Islam, you’d need to explain Islamic contributions to mathematics, medicine, astronomy, philosophy, and architecture that Europe later built upon. Broad claims like that usually signal ideology, not analysis.
Treating 1.9 billion people as a monolith isn’t serious thinking. If you want to critique specific doctrines or governments, name them. Otherwise, you’re just venting.
That being said, probably the best retort is just that being Israel's little biatch isn't appealing to most Americans, so there is hardly any "democracy" there either.