Posted on 01/11/2002 8:52:14 AM PST by ml/nj
Today in the WSJ, Karen Elliot House reviews a new book from Bernard Lewis entitled What Went Wrong. She begins this way:
How has it come to pass that a civilization that for centuries led the world in science, medicine, and the arts ...Does anyone know what contribution the Islamic world made to science besides giving us our number system (admittedly a biggie) and naming a bunch of stars (less big)? Algebra may have Arabic roots linguistically, but I cannot think of a single concept or theorem that we credit to the Arabs. The Greeks are all over geometry. The Arabs supposedly preserved this and passed it along, but did they contribute? I don't know. I'm asking.
Ditto for medicine. What did they do? (Stop the bleeding when they chopped off someones hand?)
And if House just said "Art," maybe, but Arts? The Islamic architecture should certainly be considered "leading," but is there any philosophy or literature that anyone pays attention to along the lines of Maimonades or Aquinas?
ML/NJ
Yep, barbarians! Dirty too.
Obongo is a Muslim, and a Communist. He’s a low life, sneaky little bastard.
groannnnnnnnnnnn! I didn’t need to see that.
WOW Fred, I’ve never seen that picture before. WTF???? Deranged comes to mind.
MHG, I think you really, really hate that man. I know the feeling. I have never hated anyone that much. I never knew I had it in me.
So Obama is a Muslim?
What the vast majority of Americans have not come to understand is, the destruction of our economy by enemies domestic (read Obama+Democrat legislators and complicit repubicans) hastens the actions of enemies foreign because the acts like 911 will be so much more effective in crumbling the Republic. And to not then go to the logical conclusion that this lying wicked bastard is looking forward to that eventual destruction is aiding this scum sucking affirmative action demon.
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