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This was written when Islam was intellectually far more advanced than Christian Europe. This viewpoint was one of the reasons for their advanced civilization. It was held by many. It is still held by many Muslims, but for the fundamentalist of Islam today, ignorance of anything that is not in the Koran or other sayings of the Prophet is a virtue. Madrassas throughout the Islamic world teach only the Koran and religious law and nothing of mathematics, philosophy, science, history and never of other religions.
The FBI obtained a court order requiring Aplle to write a program that would decrypt the cell phone of a terrorist mass murderer. If there were such a program, no one could be guaranteed the confidentality of his/her own personal files thus removing a means of maitining privacy that Americans and all others who bought the Apple iPhone. One of the main motivations for people in foreign coutnries to buy and Apple iPhone was to be able to keep their files secret from their governments. If Apples were tp develop such a program not only would Apple lose business and America lose jobs, but everone would lose a degree of privacy from government intrusion. Further, then China, Russia, Egypt and the other non-democratic goverments in the world would gain a major new tool with which they could repress their citizenry.