The point is, your “HUGE” expert has gained the bad university habit of worshipping his own intellect, enjoys being fawned over by insipid women at cocktail hours and after he sips the islamic cool-aid noted in #282 he no longer is an authority but a academic mercenary and an advocate for genocidal murderers like Maj. Hasan.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/americas-gun-outrage-276-people-killed-or-wounded-a-day-20091109-i4gj.html?

Syrian Christians immigrated to the Muslim world and they took with them the writings of the Greek philosophers.

Syrian Christians were conquered by Islamic Imperialists in the 7th Century. The Muslims got the Greek learning from provinces that were once under Byzantine control. The Byzantines were Greek. The Syrians Christians had their lands conquered by the Muslims, so that proves my point.

They developed science further (algebra, geometry, physics etc.)

Nice Leftist Pro-Muslim spin.
Algebra is Babylonian in origins, not Arabic Muslim.

Geometry is Greek.

Physics is also of Greek Origins.

Nice try, try again.

What is significant from our point of view as moderns is that the Arab Aristotelian philosophers were suppressed by Islam, whereas the great Jewish and Christian Aristotelians were embraced as orthodox in their own religions.

This is not a coincidence, nor does it have anything to do with “tolerance.”

Partially. (And let’s leave it at that!)

Yes. All the more remarkable the intellectual flowering that took place in spite of them.