The West also copied many things from Islamic civilization, they never ever talk about this. Not in their corrupt education systems and not in the media, not anywhere else.
For example: for hundreds of years, even until 200 years ago western medicine was ENTIRELY based on the works of Avicenna 1000 years ago...
I grew up with my dad being a staff member for a Dutch museum that explained the cultures of far-away lands to the people and tourists of The Netherlands (can't mention which museum here, sorry)..
Anyway, as a boy of about 8 years old (I'm 35 now, so this was mid 1980s), they had an exhibition of an old muslim desert town, complete with 1 muslim actor who sat there playing local resident who understands little Dutch.
This man taught me that Muslims gave westerners their numerical system. He even taught me the sounds of the numbers in Arabic.
All I'm trying to say with this is; some westerners at least, like myself, DO realize how much we westerners have absorbed from other cultures around the world.
And I say to you all now; we westerners have enhanced that knowledge considerably, and are willing to give most of it (1) back to those other cultures that we once absorbed knowledge and understanding of.
(1) the one exception is state-of-the-art military tech. we westerners like both the moral highground and military technological supremacy. we simply don't trust the other major cultures on earth well enough for full military equality, yet.
I'll rest my case here for now..
