"towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Christopher A. Lee wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:43:08 -0400, "Justin Case"
>> <Thinhthi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> "534@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> news:g4eh3u$o09$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> The tiling in medieval Islamic architecture turns out to embody a
>>>> mathematical insight that Westerners thought they had discovered
>>>> only 30 years ago.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.newsweek.com/id/36281
>>> Medieval Arabic (not Islamic) architecture was indeed great.
>>> Unfortunately, the rise of the Islamic religion is in direct
>>> pro****tion to the decline of Arab culture and peoples. So much so
>>> that today, Arab culture has advanced little since the year 1000.
>>> The only Arab countries which have advanced are the ones embracing
>>> Western thought.
>>
>> No. The rise in Islamic fundamentalism, not the Islamic religion per
>> se which progressed and coexisted with science and engineering until
>> the fundamentalists gained control round about the time Europe was
>> starting to emerge from the Christian dark ages.
>>
>> Before that they had made great strides in science. Just look at all
>> the al-words: alkali, alcohol (from al-kuhl which was an antiseptic
>> powder that gave its name to alcohol via "the alcohol of wine" which
>> was also a simple antiseptic), Algol, Aldebaran and other stars.
>>
>> Algebra - while this has Babylonian origins the word is Arabic,
>> showing that they knew it when the Christian world didn't..
>
> Algore - Should be president. Invented the internet. Best dancer in
> Tennessee.
>
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