From the 700s to the 1200s, Baghdad was an Intellectual Cent 29 4, 2:49pm

@dino-soar94 What's really annoying is that they claim Islam is Un-American or that it's a threat to America ... even though the Founding Fathers (the people who founded America's Government and whose ideas form the basis of American Ideals even today) actually thought highly of Muslims and made a point of extending freedom of religion to them.

https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0205/tolerance.html

But then again, there's a reason intolerance is synonymous with ignorance.