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Posted on 05/07/2002 9:54:28 AM PDT by besieged
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I think the facts speak for themselves. An interesting commentary on the cultural differences between the "Semites".
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posted on
05/07/2002 9:54:28 AM PDT
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besieged
To: dennisw; yehuda; veronica; tomahawk; topquark;
Ping, just fyi.
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posted on
05/07/2002 9:55:45 AM PDT
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besieged
To: besieged
Although this is interesting, the Nobel people have lost all credibility. They gave the Peace Prize to Arafat and Perez one year -- and regret giving to Perez!!!
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posted on
05/07/2002 9:57:23 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: besieged
Yeah. If I were standing on the 98th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center after that plane hit the building, I'd realize that all the Nobel Prizes in the world weren't going to do me much good.
To: besieged
Does this explain the preponderance of Jewish lawyers, too? Or Jewish jewelers?
If the Arabic peoples are not out there winning secular awards, maybe it's because they are more interested in spiritual endeavors.
To: besieged
Arab mathematicians and scientists led the world 1000 years ago. Many sciientific advances in Europe of the past 300 years were essentially rediscoveries of work that had been done long before. Even something so basic as Snell's sine law of refraction was rediscovered through Alhazen's work centuries earlier.
But then something happened to the great Islamic civilization, and make no mistake, it was the most advanced on earth at the time. A lot of the destruction took place in present day Iran and Iraq and was done by the Mongol Hordes. They burned it to the ground. It's been hard to recover from that, and it will be impossible to recover with quasi-religious bandits destroying everything they touch.
To: besieged
And your conclusion is.....?
To: besieged
Mega-bump!
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:05:47 AM PDT
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Surge-on
To: RightWhale
Arab mathematicians and scientists led the world 1000 years agoProof please
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:07:42 AM PDT
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AppyPappy
To: AppyPappy
Snell's Law, look it up. There's more.
To: LurkedLongEnough
If the Arabic peoples are not out there winning secular awards, maybe it's because they are more interested in spiritual endeavors.Yeh, like blowing up 3000+ innocent people, or sending an unending stream of psycho-bombers to murder babies and women.... Some religion!?!?
Islam = false religion
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:12:31 AM PDT
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Surge-on
To: besieged
Here is one glaring omission that caught my eye immediately. In 1979
three, not two were physicists awarded the prize: Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and
Abdus Salam.
They received the price for
"their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".
Even a non-scientist like me knows that the work of these three is in a category of its own.
Also from the official Nobel Web site, this bio on Salam:
Abdus Salam is known to be a devout Muslim, whose religion does not occupy a separate compartment of his life; it is inseparable from his work and family life. He once wrote: "The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah's created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart."
There may be other inaccuracies in your list, but I haven't the time to check.
Finally, remember what the fine print in the mutual fund sales brochures says: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:12:34 AM PDT
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tictoc
To: RightWhale
quasi-religious bandits destroying everything they touch.That's what Islam is, was, and ever shall be.
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:14:24 AM PDT
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ecomcon
To: tictoc
Oh that's encouraging.
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:15:48 AM PDT
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ecomcon
To: LurkedLongEnough
Sure they are interested in spiritual endeavors, such as killing infidels and training their young ones to be homocide bombers.
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:16:18 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
To: besieged
And your point is?? (Just kidding)
The Muslims peaked 400 years ago and haven't contributed anything since they founded some of basics in math several hundred years ago.
To: RightWhale
Can't find a Snell's Law
To: Surge-on
It is a spiritual endeavour. It's just that the spirit that informs them is Satan.
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:18:03 AM PDT
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ecomcon
To: besieged
Great although 1,000 years ago they were very advanced, I and my family live NOW!
And NOW I cannot get on a plane and visit the Church of the Nativity or Jerusalem!
But the 1000 years ago crowd can visit Mecca and Medina!
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:18:24 AM PDT
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Kay Soze
To: tictoc
Finally, remember what the fine print in the mutual fund sales brochures says: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."No, not if your strategy is to wipe all Jews so therefore you win by default. Islam a peaceful religion.
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posted on
05/07/2002 10:18:36 AM PDT
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Surge-on
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