re: The Mongols knew how to deal with Islam

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The Mongol destruction of Baghdad was a psychological blow from which Islam never recovered. With the sack of Baghdad, the intellectual flowering of Islam was snuffed out.

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This is terrible history. There was no "intellectual flowering of Islam." Ever. This was the result of the Persian and Greek influence centuries before. What did Islam provide? This area had been largely Christian for half a millennia as well.

Historians act like the entire Middle East was immediately Muslim from 650 onward and every advance was because of Islam. That is ludicrous but people believe it. Islam provided what? What did Islam bring that was not already present in those cultures or that would not have grown without it?

Just because a Muslim scholar had an idea in 900 AD does not mean that Islam inspired it. It could have been because he was Persian or Egyptian or had Greek, Hebrew, or Christian influence.

All of that kind of bad history is actually anti-Western propaganda disguised as history.