You made some excellent points. Also, is it bad that the UAE is helping American students to learn...am I missing the point on this too? The UAE is working on many hi tech projects that are going to benefit the USA
"Investors from the United Arab Emirates helped fund the $23 million Neil Bush raised for Ignite!, the learning systems company that holds lucrative No Child Left Behind Act contracts in Florida and Texas. The "Cow" is an Ignite! portable computer designed to work in a classroom, providing interactive instruction aimed at improving students' scores on standardized tests. If you loved Billy Carter and "Billy Beer," you're certain to love Neil Bush and the "Ignite! Cow."
The Muslims do put an Islamic spin on learning, even in Dubai. For example, they try to give credit for inventing vaccination to Avicenna (Ibn Sina), an Arab instead of to the true inventor, Louis Pasteur.
They even go so far as to say that the word "vaccination" is derived from Avicenna's name, when in fact it comes from the Latin word for cow (vacca) - as the first vaccination was against smallpox by infecting people with an attenuated weak version of the cowpox virus.
All this talk about cows and vaccas makes me think of one thing... and it's not even Friday!