LA Times Writer Slams Revisionist Historian

LA Times Article
In his review of ‘God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215’ by David Levering Lewis,Tim Rutten slaps around the revisionist history of the book so well, you’d never think he wrote for the LA Times.
Money shot:
In other words, the West would be better off if it had been incorporated into an all-conquering Islamic empire in the early Middle Ages.

OK.

Still, it’s fair to wonder why, if that’s true, the West ended up with the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the Scientific Revolution and the Islamic world got chronic underdevelopment, a pervasive religious obscurantism, Al Qaeda and the trust fund states of the Arabian peninsula? It’s also fair to point out that both the Muslim philosopher Averroës and the Jewish philosopher-physician Maimonides were sent fleeing for their lives by Islamic fundamentalists and not the Christian Reconquista.

Wow. A writer for an unabashedly liberal newspaper opines that Islam might not be the “Religion of Peace and Scholars” as we have been told again and again, even by people who damn well know better… That is, to say the least, unexpected.

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