turn "Judeo-Christian" into a "Western" brand, proponents had to "de-Orientalise" Judaism's Middle Eastern roots, selectively claiming it as part of the West while leaving Islam behind in the East. Proponents argue that because Christianity shaped European history (laws, art,

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and holidays), it is the primary engine of the West.
When in reality, it is the Arab countries that saved the West after the Dark Ages along with Eastern Christianity. Whilst the Christians in the West went around destroying everything that isn’t Christian, the East and the
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Middle East were preserving. The Muslim countries were discovering scientific breakthroughs, creating algebra, whilst the West was crushing heretics to death and destroying Greek temples. The Arab countries were preserving Greek texts of Aristotle, Plato and texts that make up
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