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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (236997)7/18/2007 5:57:40 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Yeah. Right. I've been hammering away about literacy in the Muslim world for a while- explaining that without literacy democracy cannot work (remember Iraq). Do you know what the literacy rates were in the colonies at the time of our revolution?

I swear, you just jump from one stupid conclusion to another.

So what do you want to do about literacy? Bomb them until they can read?



To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (236997)7/18/2007 10:07:50 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
It may be a "fact" in some looking glass conservative "facts and logic" sense, but from the reality based community, we have this conventional factoid:

At a glance: Occupied Palestinian Territory . . .

Total adult literacy rate, 2000-2004* 92% unicef.org


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