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Sometimes, one comes across an article in the mainstream media that's so completely wrong, so absolutely misleading, that it's difficult to determine where to start critiquing it. Such is the case with the AP's latest press release in its self-appointed role as the official PR agency for the Muslim world. The article, titled "1001 Inventions: Science in Muslim Lands," is a glowing homage to Muslim "advances in engineering, medicine and architecture" that "laid (the) groundwork for Western progress from the Renaissance until modern times."
Did you get that? The progress of the Western world, from the Renaissance to modern times, is due to the genius of Muslims.
The AP article covers a traveling exhibit which seeks to promote that very notion. The exhibit is aimed at Muslims who "thirst for cultural pride," and non-Muslims who are, well, just damned ignorant (as evidenced by this introductory video from the exhibit, in which British actor Ben Kingsley schools a bunch of bigoted, ignorant British children).