lol worst part is these folks aren't even the typical 'whites'
Wait a second, did you just say "typical whites"? So you assume that only a white person is racist? Doesn't such an assumption make you racist too since you intentionally singled out that ethnicity & called them racist?
I am pretty fair skinned too, so according to you am I more likely to harbor racist feelings than yourself?
The fact is that racists exist in every nation & race on earth, as evident from this thread. In fact you yourself are a racist in my opinion for singling out whites & assuming only a white person can be racist.
Another advice to members here is that you shouldn't assume criticism as being racism.
That is exactly what westerners want you to think and feel, since in all our studies we learned that the Greek civilisation was the start of western civilisation, hiding the facts that this Greek civilisation was itself based mainly on the remnants of the Egyptian civilisation.(see the copying of the Egyptian temples, religious beliefs, myths and so on)
The first translation of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics were in Greek ! See "The Rosetta Stone"
It doesn't matter if the Greeks were influenced by the Egyptians, you know the reverse occurred too. There isn't much similarity between the Greek Gods & the Egyptian Gods, in fact the Greek stories of their Gods & Goddesses are amazing as in Pandora's box for instance. Egyptian religion is more like a cult where Pharaoh establishes himself as supreme authority, & the remaining population obey his every command.
I am not saying there aren't any similarities between them, but that could be the case for many nations. Knowledge flows from one nation to another it all depends on how the other nations makes use of it. Even the Caliphates initially gained their knowledge & scientific advancement by studying the science & philosophy of Greek & Latin civilization, what about the Sanskrit books left over from the Vedic Aryan civilizations that were translated in to Arabic?
Here is a quote from wikipedia:
Much of the Hindu approach to mathematics was certainly conveyed to western Europe through Arabs . The Algebraic method formerly considered to have been invented by Al Khowarizimi can now be seen to stem from Hindu sources
Please Google the article since I am not allowed to post links, search for "hindu and buddhist contribution to science in medieval islam"
You guys may want to read up on that article, many references are present there too.
So is it fair for me to say that the Caliphates' multiple contributions were made because they too borrowed ideas from others? Of course not, all civilizations borrow knowledge, concepts & ideas from others. Many empires were like Titans at their peak, but look at their descendants today. Look at Greece, Egypt, or Iraq, all these nations had a great civilization in the past but today that's definitely not the case.