Peter's Reviews > The House Of Wisdom

** spoiler alert ** Tough going, but full of annotated history around the Christian crusades to the Middle East in the late 11th century AD and beyond... and, ironically, exposure of Western European academics to Arab and Muslim philosophy, ideas and sciences that eventually dragged a dictatorial theocratic Christian church kicking and screaming into enlightentment and acceptance of a reality that it had heretofore suppressed through threats of excommunication and murderous persecution.
Do I detect a resurgence/duplication of the Catholic church's middle ages intolerance and suppression of ideas and opinions inconsistent with its own in modern day "cancel culture" and intolerance of opinions different from the politically correct "voices" permeating social media and the news cycle.? You bet I do!