Thanks for the well-thought-out response, WCS, but I was only throwing out a loose comment. I didn’t intend to get into a serious discussion about it.
I don’t really have any serious theories of why the Arab peoples have such retarded cultural/scientific advancement, outside of the corrosive force of Islam.
Aw, shucks. And here I was hoping we were going to sling around that ol’ anthropology jive. Thanks for the response, though.