Islam and Christianity

900 years ago when he said, “It is a very little worm that makes
every disease. It is a pity we do not have an apparatus to see
them.”
One of the great Islamic doctors, Abû Bakr Râzî (rahimahullâhu
ta’âlâ) (854-952), was the first to distinguish between
scarlatina, measles, and smallpox, which were thought to be the
same disease during that time. The books of such Islamic scholars
were taught in all the universities of the world throughout the
Middle Ages. While the mentally-handicapped were being
burned alive because they were “possessed by Satan” in the
Western world, hospitals had been constructed in the Eastern
world for the medical treatment of such patients.
Today, everyone with an objective mind admits the facts
written above, i.e., the fact that positive knowledge and science
was first founded by Muslims. This, too, is also confirmed by
many Western scholars. However, some enemies of Islam, who
infiltrated into Muslim countries, masqueraded as Muslims,
somehow drew Muslim audiences and began to foist their heresies
on Muslims. They told uneducated people about their new
scientific findings and facilities, and about the new weapons they
produced. Then they deceived the ignorant, saying, “These are
non-Muslim findings, those who use them will become non-
Muslims.” They caused the Muslims to forget Allâhu ta’âlâ’s
command: “Learn everything.” The efforts of these people was
one of the main reasons for the decline of the East. The Western
world became superior with its new weapons and technology. On
the one hand, these insidious enemies of the Islamic religion
deceived Muslims in this way, and, on the other hand, they said:
“Muslims do not like science; they do not want constructive
knowledge; Islam is fanaticism and it means going backwards.”
They tried to alienate Muslim youngsters from their Islamic
heritage and destroy the future of Islam.
Those who are trying to answer the question, “Why did it take
two hundred years for the printing machine from Europe to
reach the countries under the sovereignty of the Ottoman
Empire?” by saying, “Because the Islamic religion forbids
printing books with printing machines,” are completely wrong.
People called “mustensih” (transcribers), who lived by writing
books, caused it to be delayed, fearing that using printing
machines to publish books would make them jobless. They used
various propaganda techniques to prevent the press from coming
to Turkey. For instance, they organized a demonstration march
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