Not just Islam. The Irish (of all people) had copied nearly everything they
could get their hands on from the Romans, from whom they learned to write.
Much of this information was saved in monasteries and, when bought back out
hundreds of years later, helped jump start civilization out of those dark
ages and into the renaissance. Kenneth Clark gives in his excellent
"Civilisation' a decription of how western knowlege and civilization hung by
a thread and was almost lost if not for the Irish.

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Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html
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Mark S. Holden wrote:

This is a hoax.

See

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_spielberg_crusades.htm

A movie like that would be REALLY detrimental to a certain GW Bush and
gang. Bush already called his invasion a Crusade. What a maroon.



The Crusades, like the Inquistion, were among the darkest, most evil times
in all of Christendom, and were directly responsible for the Dark Ages. It
seems strange to me that before the Crusades, nearly all human knowledge
was
concentrated in libraries built and maintained by Islam.. and Islam was
the
far more civilised and forward-thinking... gotta wonder what happened..
maybe they are still REALLY ****ed about it??