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The core value of Western society and culture is scientific rationalism.
On the scale of millennia we owe that to the Hebrews, the Greeks, and the Macedonians in the centuries before the Romans arrived on the scene.
On the scale of centuries, we owe it to the Mohammadans, or Moslems, who kept those Hellenic values alive through the Dark Ages of the West. For a thousand to 1500 years, depending on locale, the Roman Church ("The Holy Roman Empire: not holy, nor Roman, nor an empire") imposed savagery and ignorance upon every bit of Europe that the Vandals and other northern bronze age illiterates didn't get.
To the south, during those terrible centuries, Arab, Peloponnesian, and half a dozen other peoples inspired by the writings of Mohammad, kept civilization alive on this side of the planet. (Elsewhere, several lively, intelligent and humane societies were doing pretty well across Asia.)
The roots of our culture were kept alive through the trunk of Moslem culture. We owe them .
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