At it again

PS Why shouldn't he be provocative? It's what he does best and boy does it get people ranting talking.

Silly tweet but it's true that Islam appears to have gone backwards since the dark ages of christianity, whereas all other major religions have progressed, and science has come on leaps and bounds. Extreme Islam still suppresses education (especially of women) and is oppressive rather than encouraging free thinking.

I read somewhere that it was because they used Greek scholarly writings that christianity had suppressed (apart from Aristotle) that made the difference, i.e. it was not Islamic scholarship as such. They simply opened up what had been closed books to christians till then.

And then they regressed.

inner naughty teenager says it all.

Yes indeed. They invented maths as we know it and their medicine in the middle ages was far more advanced than the bleedem purgem practice in the Christian world.
But one could argue it is a mainly white, mainly male club, nobel prizes. Look at some of the people who have had peace prizes...
Dawkins is beginning to look like someone who cannot control his inner naughty teenager, trying to bait the teacher.

Muslims did do great things in the Middle Ages - they led in Science and Mathematics among other things - but then fundamentalist Islam put and end to it - however, they still claim to be doing great things based on the 'knowledge' of the Koran. And that isn't true, which is what Richard is pointing out.

Funny - criticise Christianity and he gets complaints that he 'wouldn't say that about Islam' - when he criticises Islam the same people complain that he is treading dangerously!

He chose to compare with a Cambridge College - but he could have chosen, say, Jews - who have large numbers of Nobel winners in their ranks.

Numerically or politically?

Hmm.....I think he has made a mistake with that one.

Dawkins, quote 'All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.'

If he'd just confined his tweet to the first sentence, I would have interpreted it as a lament that Muslims have not had the recognition they deserve since the Nobel Prize started a century ago, or maybe some insight into how many Muslims undertake research at Trinity. This cryptic tweet is provocative. What's he up to now?