XPost: or.politics, alt.economics

On 6/5/2022 9:16 PM, BT wrote:

Hal Lillywhite said:

The Protestant Reformation led Gutenberg to invent his printing press
for the express purpose of printing Bibles.

On the other hand - and it should be no surprise to know this - the printing press was ignored and banned by the Islamic societies for, among other reasons, they feared one or more printing press owners would change
some of the content of the Koran. That, and their irrational fear of new things. This went on for about 300 years.

It's one of the numerous reasons the Muslim areas remained backwards,
and to this day they and their Western woke apologists blame "colonialism"
or some other fictional excuse.

Yes.
When Napoleon arrived in Egypt in 1798, there
had never been a printing press.
He brought one, and had to frequently move it to
keep it from being the target of fanatics.

"The first official printed version of the Koran was
finally published by the Egyptian government in 1925."
* page 547 of "The Discoverers - A History of Man's
Search to know his world and Himself" by Daniel J. Boorstin.

Imagine where the rest of the world had gotten to
in literacy and learning by 1925!?

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)