What's the source for this? Why should I take this article more seriously than a random screed on social media?
E.g. did you know math only serves to oppress muslims ? Computer science has only one function : make black people slaves again ?
And the second part of the given statement is a very popular ideology on campus. Together, let's call it "applied postmodernism", because, well ... that's what it is.
That postmodernism means science isn't valid, a view unlikely to be well-considered by most postmodernists in America and on campus, isn't too surprising since the search for truth and the standards of truth in science are themselves ideological. And the ones we use are very much part of the Greek-Christian "Western Civilization" ideology and it's evolution over time. It is very much not a popular viewpoint. The evolution of most, if not all sciences, very much happened within Western Civilization, Christianity and after 2000 years of that, odds are that half of postmodernism is kind of true : that the Christian worldview is part of most sciences and that most or all other ideologies and religious viewpoints are rejected very fundamentally.
But if you look at history, Christianity is pretty unique in that it never fully exterminated science in it's world. Note: this happened despite trying repeatedly to extuinguish it, but every time other Christians saved and "re-booted" it (you could go further and point out that while plenty of countries and even international movements tried to snuff out science, the Vatican never did, and always managed to protect itself and it's archives and teachers, so you could even say that Christianity protected science). Most or all civlizations advanced in science, but it never lasted. In most or all other civilizations science was snuffed out, usually either to make a revolution happen or to protect entrenched interests. In a few, external military invasion destroyed it.
No, its not. No major world religion did that, and nothing that did that would have survived as a major world religion or culture.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_o...
While this singular event obviously falls short of proving anti science attitudes fully prevailed, it is generally agreed that "the Islamic world" in 1900 had less scientific knowledge compared to in 1200, when the majority of their citizens weren't even Muslims. As the ideology permeated more and more of life science (ie. Books and courses) retreated and were rewritten again and again to fit the ideology better. Everytime something was lost. Over time a lot was lost.
Even though Islamic did not quite destroy science it certainly destroyed the essential part: where science and religion conflicted, there was no additional investigation, no reconsilliation, no compromise. They chose for the utter dominance of their ideology, and anything even threatening a contradiction was destroyed, if necessary including the people behind it.
This is in fact not weird but rather the common choice of societies. The Vatican is unique in the fact that it paid considerable numbers of people to find and study things contradicting Canon, for centuries. It should be said that their attitude to contradictions outside of their institutions was very different. The theory may have been that with enough research the contradiction would be revealed not to exist. Many say this is the result of the classical Greek heritage of the church.