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by gaiagraphia 18 days ago
I didn't claim otherwise. Thankfully Enlightenment values cleaned things up a little.

In the current day, I just find it very worrying when you line up a map of global conflicts and where Islam is thriving.

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What about Ukraine, Venezuela, North Korea, Taiwan, Panama, Greenland, Congo, Mexico, El Salvador, ...
How many of those global conflicts are being fuelled, driven or outright perpetrated by western countries?
Which Enlightenment values? Racism? Sexism? Colonialism?
Translating the arabic texts of science (either copied and expanded from greek, latin and other places, or new research) and claiming that it was widom of the ancients?