Why Don't People Like Muslims?

At first when I heard Rush Limbaugh say that Muslims have never added anything productive to the world scientifically or otherwise, I thought it was just one ignorant radio host. Today, I read a blogger who followed Limbaugh's exact same line of thinking in a post. I really wonder if all of the United States is this uneducated. But for everyone who has never opened a world history book, then I'll explain a short history of the western world's relationship with Muslims.

For starters if you believe in evolution, then you believe that human life started in Africa, while if you believe in creationism then you believe that life started in the Middle East (which was supposedly a garden of Eden back then.) We can all agree however that in the first few thousand years of human history, that ALL advanced civilizations were either in Africa or the Middle East. Only tribesmen lived in Europe and they had a very hard time surviving the cold winters.

After the invention of agriculture, the strongest civilization was usually always the one that had the best crops. Back then food was not abundant and the country with the best farmland grew faster with a larger population and thus had the largest armies. The primary reason that Europe has run the world for the past five-hundred years (well before the US became dominant) is because of Europe's superior farmland compared with Middle East and Africa. The soil is just better. If Africa or the Middle East had the soil and the moderate temperatures that Europe has, then they'd be running the world instead of Westerners.

Westerners and Christians are not more advanced than countries in the middle east because they are better people or genetically smarter, but instead it is just pure luck. It's foolish to believe like Rush Limbaugh does that Muslims have added nothing technologically. They invented Algebra, Geometry, and all sorts of other maths and sciences. If only middle-easterners were another race then I'd call Rush Limbaugh a racist (but they're not actually a different race.)

This is why I get worried that our education system doesn't focus on History. I think students think that they'll never use history in life so it's not important. History, however, is the primary tool that should be analyzed when voting for a national political candidate. Every issue that is discussed in politics today has a vital historical correlation that is unfortunately ignored by most Americans.