No experiment has ever been performed with such excruciating persistence and meticulous precision, and in every conceivable manner, than that of trying to detect and measure the motion of the Earth. Medieval Spanish Jews dialogued with, taught and learned from Islamic phiosophers and theologians. Unlike the cruel Catholic Christian world, the Moslems were viewed as colleagues and friends. But, thru the ages, Christian civilization overtook and outstripped, by far, the world of Islam, which plummeted from its medieval heights. Meanwhile, the world of Islam became the demonic arch enemy, as the Koran became the unwarranted basis of cruel, frantic and frequent attempts to destroy the State of Israel and murder and injure Jews, many of them Holocaust survivors.
Mosques thruout the Arab world became centers of incitement to hatred and murder.
The entire free world became the target of Moslem Terrorists. Suddenly, out of nowhere, moderate Moslem clerics are beginning to come out of the woodwork and protest extremist distortion of Islam, a religion which, they claim, innately has nothing against either the Jewish people, the Jewish religion or the State of Israel. But, thruout the ages, e.g. in Italy, when non-Jews took a positive attitude toward Judaism, rabbis such as Sporno and Ibn Ezra gladly taught them. Menachem Elon, a great religious Zionist and father, was President of the Congress. Over 1200 participants were offered hundreds of lectures a day, in English, Hebrew, and other languages, besides high level Jewish music, exhibitions, and entertainment.