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’1001 Muslim Inventions’ Fantasy Comes to DC: The Presentation of Legend as History
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| 8/26/2012
| J. Christian Adams
Posted on 08/26/2012 4:59:28 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: spokeshave
...I give them Damascus steel as a consolation prize.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:27:23 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
To: YankeeReb
“...consider the argument I had with my 8-year-old after leaving the exhibit. She was convinced that the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly, and instead it was Firnas...”
To which he should have said, “Honey, throughout your life you’ll meet people called ‘Muslims’. Trust none of them because most of them are liars.”
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:27:36 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
To: svcw
"no advancements"
Exactly right. The last 500 years saw the age inventions and progress in science. We know about the European and American contributions. Where are the contributions in these areas from the non-European and American areas of the world. Few and far between. It's an interesting question. If Islamic countries supposedly invented and came up with so many inventions and scientific contributions, why have they contributed next to nothing for the last 500-800 years? And why don't these non-Muslim defenders of Islam ask themselves that question?
To: svcw
“Lets say this is all true...”
It's not. Virtually ALL of the so-called contributions to civilization by muslims, were in fact invented by others.
Even the most ballyhooed “contribution”, algebra, was actually created by the Nestorian Christians whom the muslims conquered. The muslims exploited the inventions they acquired through conquest, but like any culture that fails to develop its own brainpower, eventually those “contributions” fell into disuse because they couldn't be understood/maintained/replicated by later generations.
To: YankeeReb
Why didn’t they explain how this vast Muslim empire that “stretched from Spain to China” got there? Hmmm?
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:35:31 PM PDT
by
jdsteel
(Give me freedom, not more government.)
To: xp38; verum ago
Thanks for the info, not that I was going to buy a subscription anyway, It’s too expensive.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:36:18 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
Thanks for the info, not that I was going to buy a subscription anyway, Its too expensive.
I just flip through other people's copies. I'm not gonna pay for it lol...
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:37:41 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(A good physical therapist is half friend, half sadist.)
To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
Nestorian Christians, would you expand?
We have a family friend who refers to himself as Aserian Christian, and he really gets up set about these claims.
He says they developed the concept of zero, which without there would be no math and all that followed.
So I am unclear as to whether he is correct or not.
But either because I just had a gin and tonic, I don’t remember or went swimming that day so I just do not recall Nestorian Christians.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:37:48 PM PDT
by
svcw
(If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
To: dead
I not even sure there was style involved, falling yes but style not so sure.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:38:19 PM PDT
by
SledgeCS
(I will vote for Obama when he admits that his idea of a transparency means "You cannot see it")
To: combat_boots
.... Firnas launched from the mosque at Cordoba a millennium agoMuslims are good at taking off, not so good at surviving the landing.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:40:32 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:42:48 PM PDT
by
wtc911
(Amigo - you've been had.)
To: spokeshave
But still not as good as the steel used in the Japanese katana.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:48:47 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: Doctor 2Brains
There truly is nothing more evil on this planet than islam.
And all you politically correct folks will find this out, sooner or later.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:53:03 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(The US Constitution is only as good as those who enforce it.)
To: SERKIT
You forgot Mohammed Einstein and Abdullah Newton.
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posted on
08/26/2012 5:56:02 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(The US Constitution is only as good as those who enforce it.)
To: 353FMG
To: svcw; ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
I did not know about this group under Muslim control. Interesting...thanks Rolf.
Nestoria Christians
.............."
Christians especially Nestorian contributed hugely to the Arab Islamic Civilization during the Ummayads and the Abbasids by translating works of Greek philosophers to Syriac and afterwards to Arabic.[20] They also excelled in philosophy, science ( such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Qusta ibn Luqa, Masawaiyh, Patriarch Eutychius, Jabril ibn Bukhtishu etc) and theology ( such as Tatian, Bar Daisan, Babai the Great, Nestorius, Toma bar Yacoub etc.) and the personal physicians of the Abbasid Caliphs were often Assyrian Christians such as the long serving Bukhtishu dynasty "..................
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posted on
08/26/2012 6:01:44 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: smoothsailing
They invented eating right and wiping left. I think that’s the end of the list.
To: spokeshave
1. Afghanistan....tradition of graduating police/guards slaughtering their teachers.
You forgot throwing acid on the faces of the girls showing up to school for an education.
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posted on
08/26/2012 6:05:08 PM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: Girlene
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posted on
08/26/2012 6:05:25 PM PDT
by
svcw
(If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
To: dead; YankeeReb
His first attempt which has passed into legend took place when he leapt from the minaret of the Great Mosque in Cordoba. Equipped with a glider with wooden struts, he managed to fly and landed more or less unharmed. "That's not flying! That's falling with style!"
- Woody
"The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the ground and missing."
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Mark
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posted on
08/26/2012 6:08:17 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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