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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The good that the British did in their previous colonies was as follows:
1. Provide civil infrastructure (including water plants;
2. Provide a civil administration & justice system;
3. Hand over of the mineral or agricultural industries that Britain had established.
That's what I highlight - nothing to validate our past presence there, just our exit from those territories. You really are being preposterous.
The ex-colony to which you refer that has supplied Muslims to the UK is presumably Pakistan. Their culture is incompatible with ours as events of terrorism and Rotherham have demonstrated.
Assume that in 90 years time there is a Muslim majority in Parliament. No matter how benign those MPs might be, it will be the extremists with muscle that will take over government. Then we'll soon have to face east.
Do you want this? Or are you going to hide behind the stupid argument of cultures evolving? Islam does not evolve.
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Your ignorance of history is extremely thorough.
The only reason we know anything about Classical Greek science and philosophy is because Arabic, Muslim scholars in the Byzantine empire preserved the texts while the inheritors of the western Roman Empire in Europe did not. These were rediscovered by Europeans from around the 13th century onwards and translated into Latin over the following 2-300 years. In the meantime the only way to learn any of it was to go and learn it directly from … Muslims.
What you perceive as unevolved Islam is in many ways an expression of pan-Arab nationalism that began to find its voice in the second half of the 20th century. Islamic countries have all had their high and low points, culturally speaking, just as supposedly Christian European ones have. You don’t have to go far back in history to see newsreel footage of Arab countries whose street scenes are shockingly cosmopolitan and secular compared to the way we tend to assume they look today.