‘Without Muslims, Europe Would Be Centuries Behind’

In a video that began circulating on X Friday, a young hijab-wearing woman, speaking in German, explains just how terrible the Western world would be if there were no Muslims in it. With surpassing confidence and not a little indignation toward those who would dare to doubt what she is saying, or be so benighted as not to take it as axiomatic already, she said:

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Islam created the scientific culture, Muslims laid the foundations of the modern world, and Europe benefited from it. This is what the world would be like without Muslims: no technology, no computer science, no AI, high mortality rates, low life expectancy, no medicine, no industry, no seafaring, no globalization, no feedback, no Enlightenment, greater oppression, injustice, disease,