by SkyEyes <skyeyes9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jul 2, 2008 at 01:32 PM
On Jul 1, 7:01=A0pm, "534@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <rtte4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Justin Case" <Thinh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:uaAak.11908$jI5.3565@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "534@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <rtte4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:g4eh3u$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.
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> >>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. =A0 So much so that today,
Ara=
b
> > culture has advanced little since the year 1000. =A0The only Arab
count=
ries
> > which have advanced are the ones embracing Western thought.
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> There was no Arab Math/Science before Islam. Preislamic Arabs wor****ped
> idols in a tribal culture and had nothing to do with learning. Islam
chan=
ged
> all that.
> The rise of Islamic religion is in direct pro****tion to the rise of
Musli=
m
> people (Arab or otherwise).
> The first revelation that Muhammad (pbuh) recieved was
>
> Read in the name of your Lord Who created
> He created man from a clot.
> Read and your Lord is Most Honorable.
> Who taught (to write) with the pen.
> Taught man what he knew not.
>
> And this changed the course of human history.
The above serves to strengthen my conviction that islam is not a
religion about a god so much as it is a cult of personality about
Mohammad.
Now keep this crap out of alt.atheism, you're not going to be making
any converts here.
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
BAAWA Knight
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes nine at cox dot net