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Old January 13th, 2007, 06:36 PM
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Islam was relatively tolerant of the sciences in medieval times, much more so than Christianity. Galileo was threatened with torture, Bruno Giordano was burned at the stake, etc.

There is also no count of how many people were condemned as witches and such.
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