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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-11 11:26||
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#1 Wow!!
Posted by tipover 2009-09-11 11:57||
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#3 Wow about sums that up, and Silentbrick asks a good question.
Posted by AlanC">AlanC
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#4 Some purported transcripted excerpts from the cited video are to be found here. "The Arabs invented, or discovered, the zero -- but what did they do with it? Some of them sat on it, some put it on their heads, while others wore it around their waists, and began shaking their hips, their bellies, and their breasts, in order to sell to the world the idea that modern Arabs are doing something. Today, the Arabs constitute nothing but thousands of zeros to the left."...The reality of the Arabs is one of defeat, hitting rock bottom... We are defeated, politically and militarily... and economically, socially, and even psychologically. We have a discourse of conspiracy, and we blame everything on others. This utter demoralization, combined with the billions of petro-dollars and the annihilation of distance by modern travel & communication, is what makes them so dangerous IMHO.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-11 15:20||
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#5 Oh BTW I thought it was a Hindi that discovered "0" (as opposed to ZerO) or at least and Indian as opposed to an Arab.
Posted by AlanC">AlanC
2009-09-11 15:22||
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#6 Malek recently had a book published in Egypt, A Flood of Corruption and the Advance of bin Laden in Algeria. In a letter to the Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Malek said, The book is already printed, but the state security confiscated it from distribution stores and warned the publisher of reprinting it, and moreover, they threatened the publisher with closing the publishing house if he acted against them by leaking information to media.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-11 15:28||
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#7 I was surprised to hear the host refer to Egypt's 1973 as a victory. Is this commonly held in the Arab world?
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-09-11 15:37||
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#8 The concept of 'zero' has been around for a lot longer than the 'Arab Scholars' (so that distinction eludes them, too).
See here and here for some interesting historical tidbits.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-09-11 15:42||
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#9 I was surprised to hear the host refer to Egypt's 1973 as a victory. Is this commonly held in the Arab world?
Yes, also in the west. Tactically (in the end) a catastrophe, the Egyptian Armys early success in the canal crossing led in due course to the re-claming of the Sinai.
Posted by .5MT 2009-09-11 19:43||
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#10 True, AlanC - but why let the truth stand in the way of a good lie making the Arabs feel good about themselves?
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