Sorry but unlike europe and christendom, islam had no problem with progress or science. This is historical fact. The dark ages lasted over a thousand years in europe, while the 'golden age of enlightment' as dubbed by even jews was under muslim rule for over a thousand years.
When the crusades started happening is when humanity retarded
What 'retards' the human race is the constant wars being waged by europeans and now americans.
Europeans who didn't know how to shower? Yeah... in the 1800s the british royals appointed a shower surgeon a muslim LMAO.. to teach the royals how to shower. Cleanliness and hygene is a part of Islam.
The amount of inventions Muslims came up with are COUNTLESS and they do not get the credit for it as europeans claim thta they invented or discovered x amount of things. A little bit of historical reading and you get enlightened to realize the truth.
The message of islam is universal. The message of christinaity was pretty much for whites. It is only a modern phenomena that christians have a 'black jesus' and 'asian jesus' and all that other invention non-sense
The funny thing is the christians of that time prefered being ruled by Muslims than by their fellow roman christians who were oppressors and hypocrites bent on only personal power
The prophet (pbuh) didn't 'slaughter people' armies fought armies. Unlike the crusades, Muslims would not attack civillians that was on the order of the prophet (pbuh).
The thing is when the 'awesome' europeans came they didn't even spare the christians they slaughtered the christians living in peace with muslims.
You would still be in the dark ages if it weren't for Muslims.
The reason Europe fell into the Dark Ages was because the Western Roman Empire fell to Barbarians.
As a result it took about a 1000 years to recover back to the standard of civilization the Romans had.
Religious mysticism had replaced scientific reason and logic....much like some religious societies today.
The Pagans were at least able to keep their religion somewhat separate from how they believed the world worked and educated Pagans were smart enough to see them more as stories which were part of tradition.
The reason why the Arabs were in there 'Golden Age' was because of their access to Greek texts and philosophers which they translated....and often got from the Eastern Romans.
Of course, only the Western Roman Empire had fallen to Barbarians.
The Eastern Roman Empire existed till 1453 until the Turks eventually took their capital Constantinople.
The Eastern Romans (Or 'Byzantines', a modern term) carried on many of the traditions of the Romans and saw themselves as still representing the Roman Empire.
They had public baths, ate with a knife and fork and were generally quite literate and looked down on the Latins/Franks of Western Europe as well as the Moslems as both being barbarians.
The invasion of the Arabs brought with it forced conversions and enslavement.
The rule under the Eastern Romans was one of prosperity and relative safety.
The highlighted statement applies to all humans, just look at the 'benevolent' rule of Moslems today....