[Wonder Warthog]

"...was founded in Damascus in the 1940s by three Arabs educated at the Sorbonne university in Paris."

Why does this not surprise me?? The French seem doomed to screw up everything they become associated with.

[Allan]

"...was founded in Damascus in the 1940s by three Arabs educated at the Sorbonne university in Paris."

Why does this not surprise me?

Pol Pot is another glorious product of the French educational system.