Some People Really Hate Muslims

Apparently, the Science Museum in London is running an exhibition entitled 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World. This exhibition "traces the forgotten story of a thousand years of science from the Muslim world, from the 7th century onwards". According to Toby E. Huff:

Our concern is with the fact that from the eighth century to the end of the fourteenth, Arabic science was probably the most advanced science in the world, greatly surpassing the West and China. In virtually every field of endeavor - in astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, medicine, optics, and so forth - Arab scientists (that is, Middle Eastern individuals primarily using the Arabic language but including Arabs, Iranians, Christians, Jews, and others) were in the forefront of scientific advance. The facts, theories, and scientific speculations contained in their treatises were the most advanced to be had anywhere in the world, including China.

Sounds interesting, doesn't it? It is exactly the sort of thing I would expect to see in a science museum. Of course, if you think that, you are being duped by a vast conspiracy. Alexander Levkovsky:

The main mission of the exhibition is to obscure the hard fact that for the last several centuries the vast Islamic world has contributed almost nothing at all to the great treasury of human civilization!

You see, the exhibition should be focusing on the lack of inventions by Muslims in the last several centuries. This is what a science museum should do. However, it is unclear if this alternative exhibit should also focus on the lack of inventions by Christians during the golden age of Islam. Otherwise, it could rightfully be accused of obscuring the hard fact that from the 8th to the 14th century, the vast Christian world contributed almost nothing at all to the great treasury of human civilization!