Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
I’m curious. Where or what is the Muslim equivalent of this? Take away the odd bit of architecture or calligraphy and where is this kind of richness found in the Muslim world? And if something can be called to mind, in what way can it be said to be a uniquely Muslim creation?
I ask this in a sincere desire to find out what I may be missing, where the holes in my learning are, and how I might be blinded by my extraordinarily negative view of Islam.
Where are the plays, movies, books, paintings, concertos, pharmaceuticals, and the like? I know of none. Nothing even close.
I believe Muslim civilization to be parasitic from the git.
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That was simply breathtaking~! I've always been very fond of the Toccata and Fugue (it's on my playlist at the LMC), but to see a visualization of the music like this, with it's notes resembling geographic landscapes- clouds too-
causes me to appreciate Bach's mind all the more. Sheer genius and such a gift.
Ah, but no such gifts come from the Muslim world, friend, because the deepest tenets of Islam discourage, indeed punish creative thought entirely. Followers of Mohammad and of Allah think of themselves as 'slaves' rather than as children, dispised and threatened instead of loved and encouraged to grow and to think.
Islam is a fatal disease.
-off topic, but How are you doing? I hope all is very well with you, yours.
Well they did some pioneering work towards mapmaking. One only has to look for pools of blood in the sand to know how far the caliphate extends.
Thanks, LM. Agreed on all points. The genius of individual Muslims will ever be smothered to the extent that it would increase individual Muslim autonomy, equality of women, critical thinking applicable to exegesis of the Koran, etc. That is to say, the only outlet for that genius will be in designing colorful fabrics and tasty foods. History proves our point -- nothing, but nothing, gets invented in the realms ruled by Islam. Technology must always be imported.
I'm doing well, thank you kindly. My pacemaker battery was destined to run down slightly earlier than expected and a replacement generator has now been implanted in yours truly. With luck, I'll last longer than the projected 10-year battery life.
I get a bit weary of blogging. Kind of like Mark Twain said about being tarred and feathered -- If it weren't for the honor of it, he'd just as soon forego the experience. Something like that.
If it weren't for the sheer pleasure of writing and playing with language -- and the few friendships with kindred souls that develop -- the hit counter is a not-too-subtle hint that I'd be better off to let Fjordman and Gates of Vienna do the heavy lifting. But, better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Ooops. Sorry for that racist comment.
Thanks, HIH. That point about mapmaking is news to me. I'll give them credit where it's due. I quite accept that there have been instances of genius and innovation. There was a fine observatory that was built in the remains of Persia sometime after 1000 AD, I think. A hundred years later it was a ruin. Sic transit inquiry in the Land of Allah. Roots never find sustaining soil or sufficient water there.
See my post The face of ignorance for example of how a genuine Arab (I assume) scientist has to tread ever so lightly when dealing with some ignorant skunk who argues strenuously that the earth is flat per the Koran.
Agreed on the "pools of blood" idea. Israelis and crusaders are and were scum for invading land under Muslim control, however loose, but Muslim imperialism is sacred and irreversible, of a permanency like unto the stupid fealty of Western intellectuals to utopian totalitarianism.
What was it? 120,000,000 people slaughtered in the Indian subcontinent alone by Muslims?
Quite a record. As surpassed by whom? Oh, yes, the communists.
But that's another story.
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