[aruanan]

Importing unacceptable customs:

Give someone from the Middle Ages a cell phone and he's just a cell phone-using person from the Middle Ages. People who think that introducing the wonders of technology to others whose worldview is inimical to ours will moderate their enmity are just nuts. Imagine Ghengis Khan with modern communications, global banking, and nuclear weapons.

[yendu bwam]

Imagine Ghengis Khan with modern communications, global banking, and nuclear weapons.

You mean Saddam Hussein?

[American in Israel]

Give someone from the Middle Ages a cell phone and he's gonna make a car bomb with it.

[nightdriver]

"Give someone from the Middle Ages a cell phone and he's just a cell phone-using person from the Middle Ages."

Or he'll figure that the only use for it is a remote-control detonator for an infidel-killing bomb!