Being an American is more than Citizenship

Joe Scarborough says:

My family my 13:25 family's probably been here for 400 years. The day she came to America and raised her hand and took the oath, she's every bit as much of an American as you are or me.

No. Raising her hand made her a citizen, but not every much an American.

What the Islamic Golden Age achieved

From a new paper:

At the end of fifth century C.E. the Roman Empire was in shambles. It was divided into the Western and Easter parts already in 395 C.E., and prone to steadily increasing barbarian invasions ever since. The last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus was disposed of in 476 C.E. by war Germanic chief Odoaker, who proclaimed himself emperor.

The Eastern part of the Empire with capital in Constantinople gradually transformed into Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire. All these territories, including Egypt and North Africa up to Spain were Christian since the Emperor Constantinus proclaimed Christianity to become state religion. However, since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, most of these territories were deprived of any organized army and statehood, prone to barbarian invasions, among which the Huns, the Goths and the Vandals were the most important and disastrous.

In the midst of 7th century C.E. a new religion was proclaimed by Muhammad in Arabia, derived from Jewish and Christian traditions, simplifying them and professing with great conviction the uniqueness of God, This was an important revolution, because it replaced the tribal principle by a more general religious and social unity.

While Europe entered the era of turmoil and invasions Dark Ages, lasting roughly from 500 C.E. until the 12th century, the Arabs have conquered vast territories creating a buyoant Islamic Civilization, which spread from Moorish Spain in the West, through Western North Africa, through Egypt and Mesopotamia, touching India and even the most western parts of China. ...

The Golden Age of Islamic civilization covers the time span from 9th till 13th century C.E. in Baghdad under the Abassid dynasty, and in Moorish Spain until the fourteenth century; it lasted a little bit more in Central Asia, falling under the Mongol conquest.

It goes on to detail those Islamic Golden Age advances, mostly in mathematics and astronomy.

the Arab and Islamic Astronomy, especially in the observational field, represents the last chapter of the science of Antiquity, a natural extension of Babylonian; Indian, and above all Greek scientific heritages of a small world centered on the Earth, for which the sphere of fixed stars represented the utmost external limit.

Modern science germinated within the new university framework of Medieval Europe between the 13th and 15th centuries, openly born with the intellectual revolution brought by Copernicus in the 16th century, pursued later on by Galileo, Descartes, Kepler, Leibniz, Newton and other European scientific luminaries.

Baghdad and Persia had great intellectual traditions from before the Mohammedan conquest. The Islamic accomplishments were mostly in the preservation and improvement of science from elsewhere. This part is not so surprising.

The surprising thing, not covered in the paper, is how European science and math skyrocketed, while the Islamic Golden Age ended. This cannot be explained by Europeans getting higher IQ while others declined. No, clearly Christendom was doing something right, while the Islamic world was doing the opposite.