Imagine a world without Muslims?

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ghulam muhammed
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Imagine a world without Muslims?

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Unread post by ghulam muhammed » Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:50 pm

Imagine a world without Muslims?
Someone did, and its going viral!


Racial hatred towards Muslims had hit a new high when two planes hijacked by Muslim youths radicalised by Osama Bin Laden hit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The feeling then was that it couldn't get worse, but it did, as was witnessed by the recent terror attacks across Europe.

And then, in the run-up to the 15th anniversary of the attacks that became known across the world as just "9/11", someone tried to fan that hatred by asking people to "imagine a world without Muslims". The post on social networking platform Tumblr has since gone viral, but for all the right reasons.

It has gone viral because someone — more specifically, a Tumblr user named "whatpath" — has taken the time and shown his/her patience to collate a series of things the world would not have had without Muslims. Read their entire unedited reply here:

Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?

Without Muslims you wouldn't have:

Coffee
Cameras
Experimental Physics
Chess
Soap
Shampoo
Perfume/spirits
Irrigation
Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
Combination locks
Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
Surgical instruments
Anesthesia
Windmill
Treatment of Cowpox
Fountain pen
Numbering system
Algebra/Trigonometry
Modern Cryptology
3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
Crystal glasses
Carpets
Checks
Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
University
Optics
Music
Toothbrush
Hospitals
Bathing
Quilting
Mariner's Compass
Soft drinks
Pendulum
Braille
Cosmetics
Plastic surgery
Calligraphy
Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.
It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.
It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.
It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.
It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V's castle.
It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.
It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey
It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.
It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.

The list goes on...........

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Anders Breivik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!

Sources:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 69452.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/worl ... s=PM:WORLD
http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/f ... rticle.pdf

And being Indians, we would have to imagine the world without yummy food items like samosa or biryani, or the entire gamut of Mughlai cuisine. Not an option for many of us.

https://in.news.yahoo.com/imagine-world ... 33978.html

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Re: Imagine a world without Muslims?

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Unread post by Ali Ali » Fri May 19, 2017 2:06 am

World Without Muslims would be peaceful and hormonious....
I'm forced to say this because all the unrest which is spreaded in the world is because of the ignorant Muslims.I doesn't mean to say that a world without 'All' the muslims.Just those people who are destroying the world with their barbaric Jihadi Agenda

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Re: Imagine a world without Muslims?

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:32 am


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Re: Imagine a world without Muslims?

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Unread post by outline » Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:48 pm

Time and again, Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump has referred to Muslims as a threat. In fact, in one of his speeches during the campaign, he even proposed a ban on Muslims entering the country though he later changed his position to “not all Muslims” but the ones from “terror states”.

After the November 2015 Paris attack, a Muslim man stood at the Place de la Republique with a placard that read “I’m a Muslim, but I’m told that I’m a terrorist. I trust you, do you trust me? If yes, hug me.” Hundreds of people did hug him. However, his act highlighted the increasing Islamophobia in the city where people from the community were being looked at with suspicion.

After every attack carried out by the Islamic State (ISIS) across the world, anti-Muslim sentiment intensifies. But it must be noted, as pointed by New York University professor and political scientist Ian Bremmer, among all the ISIS members, Muslims account for 0.00625 per cent. The professor took to Twitter to share a Venn diagram to make his point.

Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?

Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:

Coffee
Cameras
Experimental Physics
Chess
Soap
Shampoo
Perfume/spirits
Irrigation
Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
Combination locks
Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
Surgical instruments
Anesthesia
Windmill
Treatment of Cowpox
Fountain pen
Numbering system
Algebra/Trigonometry
Modern Cryptology
3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
Crystal glasses
Carpets
Checks
Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
University
Optics
Music
Toothbrush
Hospitals
Bathing
Quilting
Mariner’s Compass
Soft drinks
Pendulum
Braille
Cosmetics
Plastic surgery
Calligraphy
Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.