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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: TideGlider who wrote (611577)	8/26/2004 8:56:37 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) of 769670

From your link: "In the 7th and 8th centuries the Arabs, united by Mohammed, conquered the land from India, across northern Africa, to Spain. In the following centuries (through the 14th) they pursued the arts and sciences and were responsible for most of the scientific advances made in the west. They could solve quadratic equations, recognizing two solutions, possibly irrational, but usually rejected negative solutions. The poet/mathematician Omar Khayyam (1050 - 1130) made significant contributions to the solution of cubic equations by geometric methods involving the intersection of conics." I know you hate to credit Arabs with anything, but to credit them with nothing is to revise history! I don't know if you've ever read the Rubyiat, but Khayam was a lot more than just a numbers man. To say they had no civilization is just untrue. You do know the Arab problems with the Jews is a recent thing? That the Arabs historically regard both Jews and Christians as "people of the book" and as worshipping the same God they do? That the current problems are caused largely by Isreali Zionists, and aren't rooted in Islam?

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