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[Czarjorge]

Wow. Just, wow.

[thepeel]

As in:

"Wow, I never knew that my version of history was actually a rewriting of history by religious nuts to take claim for the advancements of civilizations they ended"?

Or,

"wow, just wow. I'd better just pretend to be able to continue by being arrogant and then quietly piss off into the night"?

[Czarjorge]

No, wow, I know people as ignorant as you existed, I've just not often run into them.

No, wow, you apparently believe the propaganda you read. Even if it is written by an uncredentialled, seemingly as the gentleman you sight in your quoted letter does not list any, guy whose only references are websites that seem to take the Assyrians are great and Muslims are bad.

No, wow, I know that there are people out their who would dismiss the contributions of the an entire culture, but I didn't think anyone who taught for a living would be so... limited. You're not a teacher are you? Sweet Christ I hope not.

No, wow, I can't believe I spent this much time refuting someone who is clearly a troll, or a nutter.

So, yeah, I'm done with you. Not that someone like you would care about being dismissed. I hope that you're being a goof, if not, wow. Just wow.

[thepeel]

Option B then, eh?

[twg]

[thepeel]

So, you can list many modern advancements from these nations? Read the United Nations human development report from 2003. I'm hardly alone in believing this.

[thiophene]

Isn't much of the creation of us in embryology explained in the quran or something? a friend told me that a one.

[Pluto]

Yes, according to the Qu'ran, the world was created in six days, but it says that a day to Allah is different to the human understanding of 24hours. Indeed, the Qu'ran speculates that one day could be as long as a million years. Many Christian, and even Jewish, fundamentalists believe seven days to equal one week, or they actually believe the world was created in 168 hours with 24 hours of rest. This is another hole in the Judeo-Christian belief in Creationism, but that is for another thread.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Reading that bit about the Assyrians was a lot like listening to the worst kind of Korean nationalist. All you can do in response is For a non-Assyrian to buy into it says a lot about their thought patterns. Kinda like my whitey co-teacher who is married to a Korean; he's more Korean than she is.

[Kuros]

[Big_Bird]

[thepeel]

Kuros. Go through your list and click on the actual wiki pages of those inventions. Then, go to 'history'. I don't know if BC means "muslims did it" but there an a tremendous number of total nonsense on that page.

We can not allow them to take claim for things they did not invent. We can not elevate, cause it makes us feel warm, their astonishingly little accomplishments. We focus on Western imperialism and try to take an honest assessment of it, why not Arab/islamic imperialism?

Here is just one example:

Windmills were first built in Sistan, Afghanistan, sometime between the 7th century and 9th century, as described by Muslim geographers.

windwheel operating an organ is described as early as the 1st century AD by Hero of Alexandria, marking probably the first instance of a wind powering machine in history.

So, something was invented, the area then stolen and colonized by the muslims and the locals subjected to dhiminitue. Then, under a system of dhinmitue the original invention was made larger and the arabs took credit. Then, naive Westerners parrot the story "muslims invented it" cause it makes them feel tolerant.

[thepeel]

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[thepeel]