And when? For the first three centuries, those centuries bin Laden laments the grandeur of, every day, in his cave, most of the "Islamic world" was undergoing its "Golden Age", characterized by a Judeo-Christian majority.

... Many top "Islamic" scholars, with impressive Arab sounding names, turn out to have been Jews.

It is true, though that in the times of Ibn Rushd ("Averroes"), the Islamist world was truly Islamist, while capable of conducting a conversation with the West on Physics. But Ibn Rushd was a Spaniard, and his influence (in particular his theory of secularism being compatible with theocratism) had a huge influence on the Franks, but not in the rest of the Muslim world (Muslim Spain was its Caliphate).

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