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To: OpusatFR
Anyone else ready for a Crusade?

No, what I wish is that someone would come up with a reasonable substitute for Arabic petroleum, so we could leave these morons to their fantasies about being big shots 5000 years ago.

Kilroy-Silk is right, the Arabs like to fantasize that they invented Algebra (invented in India), geometry (Greeks), astronomy (Greeks), chemistry (Egyptians and Greeks), the concept of zero (India and South-east Asia), and a lot of other things by the coincidence of being the culture that introduced it to Europe.

Similarly, they argue that all Middle Eastern cultural achievments were Arabic, such as agriculture, writing, religion, and a host of other things that, yes, developed in the Middle East, but not from Arabs, thank you very much.

The non-Arabic Middle Eastern and North African cultures have some reasons to be proud of their accomplishments. Arabs, no. And no, I don't really think there's any point in a crusade. Any culture that produces morons like this writer is beyond hope.

36 posted on 01/11/2004 3:24:52 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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To: CobaltBlue
And no, I don't really think there's any point in a crusade. Any culture that produces morons like this writer is beyond hope

The need for one is that otherwise they will come at attack us in our own lands (no wait,t hey already have). You don't wait for the barbarians to attack the gates, you storm out and cut them down, miles FROM the gates. That's what Russia and India are doing and that's what Dubya is doing. And we are winning, but only battles/skirmishes. The outcome of the war is still undecided.
45 posted on 01/11/2004 11:39:37 PM PST by Cronos (W2004!)
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To: CobaltBlue
Exactly. The best middle eastenrn poetry (Omar Khayyam) was written by a Persian who didn't really follow slam (he wrtoe a lot of beautiful peoms, odes to wine, women and song!), the "Arabic" numeral system is really Indian, ditto all "Arab" mathematical advances while the other aspects were parts of earlier cutlures that were swamped/destroyed by the slammie mayhem
50 posted on 01/11/2004 11:46:43 PM PST by Cronos (W2004!)
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