Submitted by Ali Sina on Wed, 08/29/2001 - 02:01
By Ali Sina
Islamic countries are the most backward countries in the world. If it were not for the oil they would also be the poorest countries. But Muslims keep recalling the luminaries of the so-called golden age of Islam. They name great minds like Zakaria Razi, Abu Ali Sina, Ibn Rushd, etc. who contributed so much to science and to human understanding and try to take credit for Islam.
The truth is that these men, although born in Islamic countries, were not Muslims.
Zakariya ar Razi, (865-925) was perhaps the greatest freethinker in the whole of Islamic world.
