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Mark Steyn: Blunt words about Muslim backwardness
National Post ^
| 6 Sep 2013
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 09/07/2013 12:20:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:20:59 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Ten years back, even the United Nations Human Development Program was happy to sound off like an incendiary Dawkins Tweet: Its famous 2002 report blandly noted that more books are translated by Spain in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in the last thousand years.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:26:01 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Rummyfan
They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. Name one.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:28:07 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: IronJack
That’s an example.
As are Two,3,4,5, 6,7,8,9, and zero.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:31:16 PM PDT
by
oldbill
To: IronJack
“They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.:
In fact, most of what they “did”, they borrowed from the Hindus.
A couple of books (by Ward-Perkins and Emmet Scott) propose that the decline of western Europe in the Middle Ages was not really due to the barbarian invasions; but to the end of trade in the Mediterranean,
which was a direct result of the Islamic conquest.
The books also note the decline of agriculture and urban life in the entire area from Anatolia to Spain, from, they assert, the same cause.
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:34:00 PM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: IronJack
“Name one.”
Well, they conquered vast lands, murdered huge numbers of people, and enslaved even more.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:34:55 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Rummyfan; Jim Robinson
Good afternoon to you both.
Didn't Mr. Steyn say that we could post his articles in the entirety? Did it change for some reason?
Then again, it was a long time ago, and I could have CRS syndrome.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:38:24 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: oldbill
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:39:12 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: Rummyfan
Indeed, they are, to one degree or another, members of the same secular liberal media elite as Professor Dawkins. Yet all felt that, unlike Dawkinss routine jeers at Christians, his Tweet had gone too far. Some bizarre pathology in evidence here. The closest psychological phenomenon which I can compare it with would be the Stockholm Syndrome effect. The ROP is so far in the head of Leftys they hold them virtually captive. In response the poor saps have cultivated a demented, quasi affinity for their imagined masters. Weird stuff, and they're probably beyond redemption. We've all heard that leftists suffer from mental illness and here it is in the wild for all to view.
Dawkins must be in awe at their irrationality.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:43:06 PM PDT
by
Dysart
To: oldbill
As are Two,3,4,5, 6,7,8,9, and zero.
‘Arabic’ was just the name given to this set of numerals when the West became aware of them through Arab traders on the old Silk Road. The numerals first appear in Sanskrit records from Northern India that pre-date the bible let alone the Koran. You can give credit to Muslims fro transmitting them if you like, but they did not invent them.
To: oldbill
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:44:12 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
(Impeach Sen Quinn)
To: M Kehoe
I dunno... I just find it generally safer to excerpt.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:44:54 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: CondorFlight
A couple of books (by Ward-Perkins and Emmet Scott) propose that the decline of western Europe in the Middle Ages was not really due to the barbarian invasions; but to the end of trade in the Mediterranean, which was a direct result of the Islamic conquest.And Europe recovered once they developed sea routes the muslims didn't control back to Asia and discovered the new world.
To: IronJack
They killed a lot of Christians in the Middle-ages. That's a great thing in the mind of Dawkins.
To: oldbill
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:55:22 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
islam is a satanic death cult with “allah”, a pagan moon idol, as its’ demonic head.
Just like communism (and its’ other brand names), islam is truly an evil empire.
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posted on
09/07/2013 12:56:04 PM PDT
by
newfreep
(Breitbart sent me...)
To: Rummyfan; M Kehoe
This was published in the National Post; all NP articles have to be excerpted.
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posted on
09/07/2013 1:09:05 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
To: Squawk 8888; Rummyfan; Jim Robinson
I had been thinking about it for a bit, and now I think I know the answer. Mark is now in many publications, most whom require excerpting.
Oh well, never mind.
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posted on
09/07/2013 1:12:30 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
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