Why're you letting the illiterate masses, even the ones that do consider themselves "literate"....from bashing a person just because he has a beard and speaks the truth??
Going back to the topic, yes, you're very right. Christians in Al-Andalus used to take pride in learning Arabic and being able to translate volumes of books from Arabic to Latin (so that the Islamophobes could get some light in their heads).....heck, even the Church used to lament such behavior....
today they're reading/writing in Arabic, tomorrow they'll become Muslims!
Nowadays, we have culturally conquered minds of Pakistanis who worship any and everything coming from the West...not knowing the history of the West...which you perfectly described too.
They also used to not bathe for long periods of time and to mask that stench is one of the many reasons why the French became pioneers of perfume when it reached the West!
Another reason why in Western marriages, the bride carries flowers & the groom has a flower in his pocket....to hide the stench...
This wasn't told to me by a Molvi/Mullah or whatever the current derogatory lingo Pakistanis use.....but from my female white professor in World History....
Another reason why the soap making business boomed in Europe when a certain Muslim moved to England.
And where did the Greeks learned all that they had learned???
From the Egyptians....who learned from the Babylonians & Sumerians...
Each civilization added it's bits and pieces before the Arabs and other Muslim scholars came and translated all that and more from Hindi, Chinese, Persian, Greek, Latin and countless other sources....
They preserved that knowledge while Europe and other let the paper rot...
The entire Scientific Revolution couldn't have been born without all that Europe learned through interactions with the Muslims. Many early Europeans even gave credit to Muslim scholars....obviously, now that the European scientific & cultural revolution is at its zenith....you'll barely hear such words of compassion coming from European minds, tongues &/or sources.
Many, like you, go directly from the Greeks to the Euros when explaining anything scientific, skipping the middle and the before.