[Joe 6-pack]

This ought to be good. Just about any time the question is raised as to the contributions of Arabic culture to the world, libs will sputter, "They gave us algebra!" While the veracity of that assertion falls into a gray area, it's about all they have to hang their hats on.

We should join their little game and start calling out those who want to do away with algebra as islamopbobes.

[Mr. Jeeves]

This ought to be good. Just about any time the question is raised as to the contributions of Arabic culture to the world, libs will sputter, "They gave us algebra!"

I would answer that Arab scholars did give us algebra - and if it wasn't for their scholarly tradition subsequently being plowed under by Islam they might have landed on the moon by the 1200's. :)

[Rusty0604]

The Arabs did not give us algebra. The ancient civilizations had different forms of algebra, but it was a Greek mathematician that came up with what we know as algebra. Not too many people were interested in algebra during the dark ages, a few hundred years later an Arab stole the Greek’s work, called it his own, then several hundred years after that, during the Ottoman period, it was translated into Latin.

[Old Yeller]

This ought to be good. Just about any time the question is raised as to the contributions of Arabic culture to the world, libs will sputter, "They gave us algebra!"

No, that's Al Jazeera.