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To: grundle

This only shows that the Nobel Prizes are yet another Zionist conspiracy......

Everyone knows that Muslims secretly invented just about everything of importance and are denied credit by the world at large........


3 posted on 04/06/2007 10:56:48 AM PDT by Enchante (Liefong, Fitzfong, Earlefong, Schumfong, Waxfong, Pelosifong.... see a pattern here?!?)
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To: Enchante
One thing the Arabs did not invent was "Arabic numerals" (which they got from India).

It isn't right to equate Arabs with Muslims. Not only are there some Arab Christians, but the vast majority of Muslims in the world are not Arab.

There are more Muslims in the countries of the Indian subcontinent (about 425 million) than there are in the Arab world. The country with the largest number of Muslims is Indonesia (about 213 million).

If you take the core Arab area (the countries of the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Libya, and include the Arabs of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, the total is about 198 million. If you add the Maghreb (Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco), that's another 75 million, and the "Arab" parts of the population of the Sudan and Mauretania, that's about 17 million more, making a grand total of about 290 million.

The World Almanac's list of speakers of major languages divides Arabic into its dialects--if you take the 13 most-widely-spoken forms, the total number of speakers of Arabic is 181 million.

That's still a lot more than the number of Jews in the world, but a far cry from 1.4 billion.

26 posted on 04/06/2007 12:36:08 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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