Re: OT: needed: witty facts re: positive aspects of Islamic culture

on 4/8/08 5:55 PM, T. A. McLeay at conlang@CASSOWARY.ORG wrote:

> MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:
>> In a message dated 4/8/2008 14:38:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
>> zhang@BOHEME-MAGAZINE.NET writes:
>>
>>
>>> I am writing a blog post to counter all the blatantly Islamophobic
>>> "conventional wisdom" and needed lil witty bonbons like Kurt Vonnegut's
>>> - "Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long
>>> division with Roman numerals."
>>>
>>
>> The Arabs had a high level of mathematics, medicine, law, et al., but then
>> came Islam, which washed it all away.
>> Islam has done only harm to the world.
>
> It might be necessary to remind some people posting on this thread the
> main rules for discussion on CONLANG: No Cross, No Crown, No (Something
> that's symbolic of advocating auxlangs). These represent not talking
> about religion or politics or advocating auxlangs.
AGAIN: This not so much a issue of religion or politics, but of
mono-culturalism (such as so many in this post 9/11 era) and being
poly-/pan- and even trans-cultural.


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