Re: OT: needed: witty facts re: positive aspects of Islamic culture
| From: | T. A. McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 0:55 |
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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."
>>
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> 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.
--
Tristan.
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