Thread on this 1/n
Here are two quotes on free enquiry one by ibn al-Haytham and one by Mill they are about 800 years apart. To say free speech is a colonialist thinking or White thinking is wrong and racist. https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1231772253127348230">https://twitter.com/Conceptua...

2/n
This is Plato talking about how advanced maths were in Egypt.

Two thirds of the stars that have names have Arabic names.
We use Arabic numerals from India
Maths was taken from Egypt to Greece to the Arabs and Indians and Chinese.
This was knowledge that has been shared back and forth throughout history.

4/n
In the House of Wisdom in Bagdhad scholars from around the world came to share knowledge form roughly 850-1200. From that tradition, knowledge came into Europe, both good and bad and you can trace that knowledge back forth before 850.
A-Ghazali who stopped the enterprise of

5/n enquiry had taken inspiration from Augustine and tried a codification of Islam, his writings were part of what inspired Aquinas& #39; rules to burn witches.
Others like Acvincenna, Averos, Ibn Khuldhun, and Al Farabi brought in thought that along with other thinking and refinement

lead to the Enlightenment.
If countries that had been colonised want to reclaim that knowledge to help advance themselves we should encourage it.
Critical Race Theorists, again, are hurting those they say they want to help.
Theory is the Humanitarian Threat to Liberal Science