The 1,001 Inventions Tour is a Fraud & The Golden Age is a Myth

I would like to remind my opponent that this is a debate. Most of my case, which I purposely trimmed back forseeing this debate, has still gone relatively unchallenged. More importantly, my opponent has really not even attempted to make a case and what few points he has attempted to raised have been thoroughly addressed by my rebuttal. Nevertheless, I shall forge ahead and conclude this debate but I must make my disappointment known. My Rebuttal Claim: What Caliph Omar said was, "I will make a mill for you which is not like the others." Response: No, I've quoted what the Caliph actually said and are you seriously going to claim a Caliph was going to build a Persian slave a windmill? This is historical nonsense. I recounted the history and sustained my case for why windmills were not an invention of the Muslims. The irony of the story is the Persian builder, made a slave, assassinated the Caliph in Medina in revenge for the conquest of Persia. Claim: Roman empire was once an Islamic empire after Jesus (PBUH) was lifted to the heaven as Emperor Constantine the Great converted his religion to the religion left by Jesus. Response: Clearly we are not on the same page and I have absolutely no idea where you get this idea that an Islamic Empire existed before the Roman Empire given Islam didn't exist before the 7th century. Given that I will just briefly take this time to rail against Muhammad trying to conscript Jesus into his religion given that the Qu'ran calls Jesus both the Word of God and the Spirit of God, attests to his virgin birth, attests to the miracles he performed, and as my opponent points out ascending to heaven all the while they actually elevate Muhammad above Jesus and deny every single word and teaching he left the world. Adding insult to injury, the Qu'ran commands warfare against Christians until they convert or are subdued under Islamic rule while crudely copying Revelation but having an anti-anti-Christ mahdi meet with Jesus in Jerusalem to presumably slaughter all the Christians and Jews in the world. And you can know all this and still be a Muslim because...wait for it...I have a feeling someone is going to then allege corruption of a book even though they have not even a hint of an original but we know their verses were partially composed by Muhammad's Christian scribe who converted back to Christianity saying Muhammad knew nothing which he had not written, that was largely memorized and orally passed around by illiterate Arabs, Aisha narrated a Hadith saying a goat consumed some verses, and of course the original burning of the Qu'ran and manuscripts was done on the orders of Caliph Uthman. How a Muslim can rationalize this and still be faithful to Islam is beyond me. Yes, Constantine adopted Christianity. The end. Claim: I didn't say that Muslims were the first to make medicines but they found out the cure for many diseases which previously considered incurable. Response: You said previously, "Muslim scientists were the one of the first to make the modern medicines." That aside, what incurable diseases were cured then? Could you name a few? In the era of modern medicine, Islamic countries in the Middle East and elsewhere (although Israel does) don't even have a pharmaceutical industry and are developing no medicines. Claim: Jerusalem was the first Qiblah of Muslims and Mecca is the second. If my information is not wrong it was not until 2 AH (625 AD) when Allah ordered Mohamed (PBUH) to face towards Mecca to pray. Response: I think you missed the boat, because what I was getting at was the fact the prophet of Islam spent 13 years in Meeca but was making Qiblah toward Jerusalem and for over a year he made Qiblah toward Jerusalem, although the world is not flat as the Qu'ran says making Qiblah a futile practice, and then suddenly he changed direction to Meeca. It bodes poorly for a supposedly divine prophet to be praying all those years in the wrong direction. It has been noted that the practice was in imitation of the Jews making prayer and that it was seen as a cynical attempt to win over them until the relations between Muhammad and the Jews in Medina soured making the change a spiteful reaction. Claim: Islam brought peace and justice to the world. Islam raised the level of women in a society. If Islam is spread by sword why there are 14 million christians in Saudi Arabia. Islam gave the freedom to the people to practice their own religions as they were never forced to convert to Islam. Response: Let's get this right, Islam brought the sword to the world, 5 million square miles of it following Muhammad's death, and I would seriously dispute the idea that Sharia or Dhimmitude represent any kind of justice in the world. The prophet of Islam himself resorted to raiding caravans, killing the men, carrying off the women as sex slaves along with all the loot they could carry. I really fail to see how Islam elevated women in society. Perhaps you forget that before there was Islam, Muhammad's first wife was 40 years old and had two previous marriages before proposing to Muhammad who was only 25 years old. She was a wealthy merchant of the heretical Ebonite Christian sect. You have a hard time selling this when Muhammad said women are deficient in intelligence i.e. stupid and his beloved child bride told him directly that he had made women equal to dogs and asses. She also remarked that no woman suffers greater than the believing women i.e. Muslim women after taking a woman to Muhammad who had been beaten so badly by her husband her skin was green. Today, the Pashtun men in Afghanistan seem to think women were made unclean and homosexuality is common although they deny the label to demonstrate that women are regarded so lowly that they are only there to produce children. That's an extremely easy point to refute, because there are not 14 million Christians in Saudi Arabia. To the extent there are, we are talking about temporary workers from places like Southeast Asia, that serve as a type of slave labor or foreigners permitted to enter temporarily to work. It is illegal to practice Christianity or any religion other than Islam. It is illegal to bring even a single Bible or other religious items or symbols. All non-Muslims are barred from entering Meeca or Medina. Non-Muslim religious clergy are forbidden to enter the country. The religious police are on the look out for any sign of anyone practicing a religion other than Islam. The idea that you could actually use a bogus number and this frivolous example is simply outrageous. Believe me, Islam didn't give the freedom but they sure as hell will take it. Your prophet is literally quoted as saying he is commanded to fight people until they take the shahada! Claim: I never supported ISIS neither do I now nor will I ever. Members of ISIS are not true Muslims. Islam never support violence. Don't judge a car by it's driver. Response: You don't support ISIS, but you have a picture of Osama Bin Laden? Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared Caliph of ISIS, has a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies so surely he knows a thing or two about Islam. My problem with these supposed claims about ISIS coming from Muslims is you can't seem to actually point to any Islamic teaching they are going against. Saying Islam doesn't condone violence is more than absurd given Muhammad and his followers were raiding caravans, killing off the Jewish tribes of Arabia, invading tribes for the sole purpose of converting them, and ordering assassinations even if it took lying to achieve the goal. Your claim gets even more difficult when we look at what Muhammad's companions did conquering territory after territory, people after people, with the sword in hand to establish the first Islamic caliphate. You have a problem when the eighth chapter of the Qu'ran, literally called War Booty or Spoils of War, offers beheading, striking terror into the hearts of unbelievers, make war on infidels until there is no more disbelief, and Bin Laden's personal favorite (8:60) make ready all the power you can against allah's enemies. It gets extremely harder when you turn to the aya of the sword and the other verses of chapter 9. I prefer Jesus' example that you can judge a tree by it's fruits. So what exactly has ISIS done that Muhammad didn't do? Claim: You can say what ever you want but remember in the end Islam will always triumph over all others. Response: Consider the source! You surely aren't going to triumph in this debate. Hitler had the same idea and in the end he put a bullet in his head while eating cyanide. As this debate attempted to demonstrate, science and technology is light years ahead in the non-Muslim countries. The best Hamas can offer is firing from hospitals and digging tunnels because the idea they would meet the IDF in open, real battle would only expedite their becoming shaheed and going off to allah's brothel in Jannah. Islamic Supremacism lends itself to delusions of grandeur. Some of us non-Muslims are in the know and know precisely what Islam is all about.