The reason you can dab some of that expensive perfume and bathe with the creamy and fragrant soaps is due to the development of distillation, soap making, and perfumes by merchants in the Islamic Golden ages using spices as exotic as rose, ambergris, and sandalwood.
Your medical treatment owes its development to the medicine, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry developed and refined by Muslim scholars in the Islamic Golden Ages from around 700AD through to 1300s.
This was the period when the decimal number system we use today became widespread. Concepts such as Algebra, Algorithms were developed and are named after the inventors such as Al-Kwarizmi and Al-Tusi. Many stars and galaxies have Arabic names as a legacy of the major work done by earliest astronomers, think of the commonly named 3 sisters in the Orion's belt, Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka.
But these early pioneers are not widely recognised or mentioned in western history. Renowned scientist such as Copernicus and even Newton derived their work and theories on the back of prior meticulous science by Arab scholars before them.
Baghdad was not a sad headline, it was a proud and bustling city, a centre of learning and welcomed scholars from around the world and Muslims, Jews and Christians worked side by side under the Abbasid house.
It is this age that the Islamic activist movement, Tahl wishes to rekindle. Where Islam is again a force that contributes to commerce and science.
But this movement also knows that it first has to rid itself of the mischief and interference by western forces who have used underhand and nefarious means to control, usurp and sabotage countries in the Middle East. And that means removing western forces as a meddling force in the Middle East and allowing those countries more self-determination.
That is the vision of Tito, an Indonesian lawyer who sees himself as a Mandela-like figure with a dream to unify Middle East countries and establish a supra-national movement uniting countries in both Middle East, Africa, and Asia to become a bloc with economic, political and military capabilities. This would lead to the recognition of Palestinian statehood and stop Israeli misadventures in the region.
But Israel effectively runs the US government through its lobbyist and influence machines and threatens nuclear attack against all threats.
Tahl aims to discourage US forces away from the Middle East and shows its capability by attacking US Naval forces with its Boxfish weapon, named after the lethal Boxfish jellyfish. At the same time, Turkiye has developed Glitter, an anti-stealth material that will diminish the capability of stealth aircraft, in particular the F35.
Moving from the swanky elite restaurants in NY to the steamy snake filled jungles of Indonesia, exotic Istanbul and the dry spectacular Middle East.
What will the maniacal Israeli prime minister with his fingers on the nuclear Sampson option do?
