A few quotes from a diatribe of Islamophobic and xenophobic extremes that I came cross in the Irish Independent newspaper this morning:

“On the one hand, there is the culture which has given the world Beethoven; Bach; Shakespeare; Leonardo; Darwin; Newton; Mozart; Michelangelo; Bellini; Gallileo; Tolstoy; Einstein; Rutherford; Bohr; Curie; Dostoyevsky; Wren; and Brian Cowen. On the other, the Islamo-Arabic culture has given the world . . . well, I’m not quite sure what, certainly not in recent centuries. Suicide-bombers don’t count. Nor does pathological anti-Semitism. Nor does female circumcision. Nor does the hijab. So what has this vast block of humanity, hundreds of millions strong, given the world over the past few centuries, which has enriched our letters, our thoughts and understanding of the human condition? Go on: what?”

So essentially the so called “East” has given us nothing useful or constructive..hmm..can someone buy this person some history books or may be even point him towards wikipedia so that in the future he may use some facts in his writing and avoid making such extremely ignorant statements.
He then goes on to say that world culture is the creation of Europe and America.

“For world culture is essentially a Euro-American creation. Those two continents have been the primary creators of free-thinking civilisations which celebrated political, social artistic and scientific endeavours.”

I guess without Europe and America we would’ve never had culture. Thanks guys for bringing culture to the rest of us heathens.
Even the poor Indians, Chinese, and Africans weren’t spared in this xenophobic rant:

“Simply, neither the Chinese, the Japanese, the Indians nor the Senegalese invented the motor car or the aeroplane or rubber bands or the steam engine or the computer or the washing machine or the paper clip or the dinner fork or modern toothpaste or the combine harvester or frozen food or the civilisation-creating concepts of personal liberties, the welfare state, free speech, organised sport and representative government.

These are all Euro-American creations…”

I guess this ignoramus has no idea that Europe lived in the dark ages at one point in time and the fall of Al-Andalus and the exodus of Jews from Spain into the rest of Europe combined with the corruption, political instability, and infighting between the Muslim states may be had something to do with the renaissance in the so called “West” and the decline of the Muslim states. And ofcourse the Chinese and Indians never invented anything. HAHA! The Indians only gave us our number system and Chinese invented gun powder which the Europeans used to successfully to invade the “East”. But that’s it, they didn’t invent anything else. LOL

It’s embarrassing to see a newspaper in Ireland publish such nonsensical garbage.