White-Washing History, Dehumanizing Muslims

What follows is the reason why after 10.5 years in college I've never heard the all-important name of the intellectual giants and polymaths like Ibn al-Haytham, Ibn Khaldun, ibn Zakariyā Rāzī, Ibn al-Nafis, ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī and many more like them.

Its a cryin' shame:

"The intellectual transfer from Islam to Christendom was limited by the West’s selectivity, and by the way in which it detached Classical learning and Arabic ideas from their Muslim environment. The West sought to dehumanize the Muslim scholars to which it owed so much, and to transform them into passive agents of transmission of Classical learning." The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, edited by John McManners, Oxford University Press