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To: me_newswire
What does it matter as long as they have Islam?
57 posted on
04/21/2004 5:01:47 AM PDT by
quadrant
To: me_newswire
From 800 AD to 1500, Arabic was the language of science, as English is today. Muslims occupied Spain, and Europeans flocked to Toledo and other Spanish cities, or traveled great distances to Baghdad or Damascus, to translate Islamic science and medical books into Latin.What a load of e.coli. They must have meant "translated back into Latin".
To: me_newswire
Arabs Once Dominated Science Yeah, right. Back in the days when there wasn't any Science. We're talking 500 years ago!
What great developments did they actually make themselves, and not co-op.
Their chief contributions - the zero and Hindu-Arabic numerals - were invented by the Hindus. The Arabs just take credit for it, like everything else.
62 posted on
04/21/2004 6:15:26 AM PDT by
Bon mots
To: me_newswire
Islamic medicine in the year 1000 was a marvel of sophistication, featuring competency tests for doctors, drug purity regulations, hospitals staffed by nurses and interns, advanced surgeries, and other practices beyond the dreams of medieval Europeans. Because most of the doctors were Jews!
63 posted on
04/21/2004 6:17:24 AM PDT by
Alouette
(Gaza -- Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum)
To: me_newswire
"It is highly probable that, but for the Arabs, modern European civilization would never have arisen Still waiting.
75 posted on
04/21/2004 2:08:53 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: me_newswire
I couldn't live over there. It's always so dusty and dirty, and they're always wearing the sandals or goin barefoot. Yuk- I would hate that. I need good footwear.
84 posted on
04/22/2004 8:31:41 AM PDT by
petercooper
(You'll get nothing and like it.)
To: me_newswire
Islame is to blame. But, not to worry Arabs, your religion plans to reduce the rest of the world to level of your society-a society consisting of only the stupid and the dead.
91 posted on
04/22/2004 8:52:30 AM PDT by
F.J. Mitchell
(John Kerry-decorated Vietnam Vet-decorated as unit Christmas tree for holiday party.)
To: me_newswire
Outside of becoming the bloodiest murderers in the world, what has the Muslim world done lately?
94 posted on
04/22/2004 10:03:09 AM PDT by
Beckwith
(The greatest Muslim attribute - intolerance)
To: me_newswire
It would be more accurate to say that the Arabs were civilized by the more advanced cultures they conquered, just like the Romans before them and the Mongols after them.
95 posted on
04/22/2004 10:17:24 AM PDT by
steve-b
To: me_newswire
Arabs Once Dominated Science
No, they didn't. Muslims conquered various countries, mostly via proxies who then sent the tributes back to their Muslim bosses (then largely Arab--until the rise of the Turks). In many of these countries, the science and math continued in spite of the Muslim-backed invasion and takeover. The scientific and mathematical discoveries continued in spite of, not because of, Islam.
97 posted on
04/22/2004 10:25:43 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: me_newswire
BS!
There is a profound difference between "controlling" science and controlling (and not sharing) the accumulated knowledge about the sciences done by others.
To: me_newswire
Arabs Once Dominated Science And dinosaurs once dominated the Earth.
105 posted on
04/22/2004 7:52:29 PM PDT by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: me_newswire
Here's a thought to ponder. What if the Amish had become the dominant religious belief during, say, the 1860's, growing at the same rate as Islam? How would the US look, today?
116 posted on
04/23/2004 12:49:07 AM PDT by
I_dmc
To: me_newswire; All
"Arabs Once Dominated Science"
I once had sex with a redhead...
And the point being...?
117 posted on
04/23/2004 12:59:13 AM PDT by
expatguy
(Fallujah Delenda Est!!)
118 posted on
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SunkenCiv
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