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question whither Islam is in Clash with western civilization,
it is western civilization, it produced the western civilization
in Italy, in Sicily and Spain, it produced the check,
the bank, the hospital, the sciences, the first air mail,
the post office, the use of mathematics.
Another
important postal service was created in the Islamic world
by the caliph Moàvia; the service was called berid,
by the name of the towers that were built in order to
protect the roads by which couriers travelled.
Well
before the Middle Ages and during them, carrier pigeons
were used, taking advantage of a singular quality of this
bird, that when taken far from its nest is able to find
his way home due to a particularly developed sense of
orientation. Messages were then tied around the legs of
the pigeon that was freed and could reach his original
nest.
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