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http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=33555Buyukanit is visiting Cairo at the invitation of President Hosni Mubarak. This is the first invitation for an official visit from a foreign president (Milliyet, April 15). Besides meeting with Mubarak and Tantawi, Buyukanit is also scheduled to hold discussions with Lieutenant General Sami Enan, Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. While no agenda for the meetings has been released, it seems likely that discussions will cover not only Iraq, but also the turmoil in Gaza, Israel's policy on the West Bank and the gridlock in the U.S.-sponsored “roadmap to peace” for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli dispute.
Islam is shit
You say this as a spiteful, Christianized apostate.
I have a question--how are Muslims inferior to Christians?
Islam is shit
You say this as a spiteful, Christianized apostate.
I have a question--how are Muslims inferior to Christians?
But at the end of the day, all that has been achieved in the middle east since the arrival of the religion has been done so in spite of Islam, not because of it
But at the end of the day, all that has been achieved in the middle east since the arrival of the religion has been done so in spite of Islam, not because of it
Dude you really need to read a history book.
While the West was deep into the dark ages.
Islamic scholars were translating the known Greek and Roman works into Arabic.
Centurys later the Christian monks had to learn arabic so that they could translate the works into the european languages.
I have a question--how are Muslims inferior to Christians?
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Great Seljuq Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAccording to the Seljuks, they brought to the Muslims "fighting spirit and fanatical aggression".[21]
I'm well aware of the history. But a bit more digging does show that the vast majority of "islamic" scholars were Persians, who were only muslim in name until after the Turks took power and developed a powerful military state.
I'm well aware of the history. But a bit more digging does show that the vast majority of "islamic" scholars were Persians, who were only muslim in name until after the Turks took power and developed a powerful military state.
"Persians" :
Alhazen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al-Jahiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al-Kindi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muhammad al-Idrisi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn Bajjah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn Zuhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn Tufail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Averroes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imam al-Suyuti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abbas Ibn Firnas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al-Masudi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al-Muqaddasi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al-Khazini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn Bajjah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al-Jazari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn al-Nafis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn al-Shatir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn Khaldun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring." - Al Jahiz (d. 868 CE), Kitab al-Hayawan.
Where's Sunni Man when you need him?
Oh this would be an epic troll battle.
and while I was browsing O'neil quotes:
It is of course widely accepted nowadays that Islam had an enormous ideological impact upon Europe. Historians tend to focus on certain scientific and philosophical ideas, especially those of philosophers such as the tenth-century Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and the later Averroes (Ibn Rushd), who made extensive commentaries upon Aristotle, and who are routinely touted as examples of Islam's benevolent impact upon Europe. But there was a darker, a much darker, side to Islamic influence, the side that modern historians, chained by the bonds of political correctness, do not dare mention. The real ideological impression of Islam was not the enlightened thinking of Avicenna and Averroes, who were in any case rejected and expelled from the Muslim canon, but the darker thinking found in the Koran and the Haditha: the doctrines of perpetual war against non-believers; of holy deception (taqiyya); of death for apostates and heretics; of judicial torture; of slave and concubine-taking as a legitimate occupation. These were the teachings, and not those of the philosophers, which left an indelible imprint on medieval Europe.[
and while I was browsing O'neil quotes:
It is of course widely accepted nowadays that Islam had an enormous ideological impact upon Europe. Historians tend to focus on certain scientific and philosophical ideas, especially those of philosophers such as the tenth-century Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and the later Averroes (Ibn Rushd), who made extensive commentaries upon Aristotle, and who are routinely touted as examples of Islam's benevolent impact upon Europe. But there was a darker, a much darker, side to Islamic influence, the side that modern historians, chained by the bonds of political correctness, do not dare mention. The real ideological impression of Islam was not the enlightened thinking of Avicenna and Averroes, who were in any case rejected and expelled from the Muslim canon, but the darker thinking found in the Koran and the Haditha: the doctrines of perpetual war against non-believers; of holy deception (taqiyya); of death for apostates and heretics; of judicial torture; of slave and concubine-taking as a legitimate occupation. These were the teachings, and not those of the philosophers, which left an indelible imprint on medieval Europe.[
Basically, this guy is saying that Medieval Europe was a blank slate with no culture.
That the teachings of Islam somehow changed the pastoral people of Europe into a warlike society.
I guess the writer forgot that the people of Europe had been Christians for almost a thousand years before there was any religion known as Islam.
And that everything he accuses Islam of teaching to Europeans, can easily be found in the Bible.
Erdogan cheered by 16,000 Turks in Cologne < German news | Expatica GermanyErdogan cheered by 16,000 Turks in Cologne (Germany)
The Turkish prime minister tells crowd to resist assimilation.
The political rally by Germany's biggest ethnic minority upset German politicians, who objected to a major public event on German soil being advertised on posters in Turkish only.
Free Article for Non-Members | STRATFORWatching Turkey make its moves, we wonder less about the direction it is going than about the limits of its ambition.