Imagine a world without Muslims? Someone did, and its going viral!

Mangalore Today News Network

Sep 08, 2016: Racial hatred towards Muslims had hit a new high when two planes hijacked by Muslim youths radicalised by Osama Bin Laden hit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The feeling then was that it couldn’t get worse, but it did, as was witnessed by the recent terror attacks across Europe.

 

And then, in the run-up to the 15th anniversary of the attacks that became known across the world as just "9/11", someone tried to fan that hatred by asking people to "imagine a world without Muslims". The post on social networking platform Tumblr has since gone viral, but for all the right reasons.

It has gone viral because someone — more specifically, a Tumblr user named "whatpath" — has taken the time and shown his/her patience to collate a series of things the world would not have had without Muslims. Read their entire unedited reply here:

Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?

Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:

Coffee

Cameras

Experimental Physics
  
Chess
   
Soap
  
Shampoo
   
Perfume/spirits
   
Irrigation
   
Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
   
Combination locks
   
Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
   
Surgical instruments
   
Anesthesia
   
Windmill
   
Treatment of Cowpox
   
Fountain pen
   
Numbering system
   
Algebra/Trigonometry
   
Modern Cryptology
   
3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
   
Crystal glasses
   
Carpets
   
Checks
   
Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
   
University
   
Optics
   
Music
   
Toothbrush
   
Hospitals
   
Bathing
   
Quilting
   
Mariner’s Compass
   
Soft drinks
   
Pendulum
   
Braille
   
Cosmetics
   
Plastic surgery
   
Calligraphy
   
Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.

It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.

It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.

It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.

It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.

It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.

It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey

It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.

It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Anders Breivik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!

And being Indians, we would have to imagine the world without yummy food items like samosa or biryani, or the entire gamut of Mughlai cuisine. Not an option for many of us.