Berlusconi Comments Cause Stir -- (A MUST READ)

AP ^ | September 26, 2001, 5:06 PM EDT | By CANDICE HUGHES

[cicero's_son]

It breaks my heart to see two of my favorite peoples fighting so.

As far as I'm concerned, you're both fantastico.

[Anonymous2]

no, he's right, and he said it perfectly. you're the idiot.

[Renatus]

"...Western civilization is superior to Islam."

Does Islam legalize the killing of unborn babies?

[patent]

ITALY HAD CIVILIZATION WHEN YOU BRITS WERE LIVING IN CAVES AND EATING EACH OTHER!!!

Italy also has prettier cities too. Britain is the has been of Europe.

Knock it off. Britain is behaving with the utmost honor and dignity as it’s leaders work overtime on our fight. To insult them at a time like this is beyond juvenile. Insult the one you’re arguing with if you must pout, but leave the country out of it.

patent  +AMDG

[Clemenza]

Listen CHUNDERfromdownunder, my dog could build stonehenge. Let's also not forget that the modern day Italians ARE descendents of the Greeks and Romans (to say nothing of the Lombards, Saracens and Normans).

By the way, the best Australians are OF ITALIAN EXTRACTION.

[BurkeanCyclist]

god sense

Whoops. Freudian typo.

[Anonymous2]

coming from a mcloser, this carries no *gravitas*. isn't that your mantra?

[cicero's_son]

Bingo.

BTTT.

[Clemenza]

Just having a little fun :-)

[MadIvan]

Absolutely, we have bailed you guys out, so you should kiss our yankee as-es. :-)

Funny, you were an Italian, though more boastful and obnoxious than genuine Italians would find tasteful, about five minutes ago. Make up your mind.

Ivan

[Torie]

Brits could never win a conflict on their own.

Your knowledge of British history is rather thin apparently, and in all events suffers from "recency." The Brits kicking the Argies butt in the Falklands really doesn't count for much.

[patent]

Radical Islam is truely the greatest single threat faced by Western (democratic) civilization in the world today...this guy was stupid enough to voice it out loud.

Radical Islam is merely the most visible enemy. The reality though, is that they can’t beat us unless we let them. My personal opinion would be that our very own radical secularization is a far greater danger.

patent  +AMDG

[ventana]

Bravo, Bravo Sr. Berlusconi!!!

[vrwc54]

Sounds somewhat like something I read earlier today.

[JeepInMazar]

This makes me want to learn to speak Italian and go to Italy with a fistful of dollars for my next vacation.

[habs4ever]

He's from Milan, and he used to be a singer on cruise ships,and his popularity probably went up 10 pts in Italy today.

[Alberta's Child]

Berlusconi has apparently overlooked the fact that the invasion of Europe by the Moors was one of the most important events in the history of Western civilization. When the Arabs were eventually pushed back, they left something that would become a very critical element in Western science and technology -- the Arabic numbering system.

Until the Moors arrived, Western science was limited by a very cumbersome Roman numbering system that was fine for counting and designating individual things, but could not be used for anything more advanced. The Arabic system introduced the concept of the number "0," negative numbers, and the operations of multiplication and division.

I may be a little off in the name, but one of the most important people in the development of Western science was an Arab mathematician named Mohammed Jabar al-Qoritham, who developed the branch of mathematics known as algebra that would become the basis for all theoretical science. Western science was pretty much at a dead end until empirical observations could be described in abstract mathematical formulas, or algorithms (based on the name "al-Qoritham").

[cicero's_son]

Do you have any material from the period after 1400?

[RobFromGa]

Come on Clemenza, knock it off. Take it out on some other country besides England for now.

After the Italians kick Radical Islam @ss in theis War then you can come back and gloat and we'll all have an Italian lovefest. The PM's statement today is a good first step.

[MadIvan]

Just having a little fun :-)

I don't find it amusing when I have friends and family who are either in the Gulf or indeed may be in Afghanistan, being belittled. If you want to have your fun, I suggest you try it on some nation that doesn't have people who are willing to shoot back.

Ivan