The Middle East Looked Nice and Cozy

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"For awhile" seems to indicate that it is actually true. Compared to previous years the Middle-East wa relatively calm just before the 9/11 attacks occurred. Nice and cozy are obviously not the best chosen words, but I've heard worse statements from politicians than this one.

That place has been a disaster since Mohammed, most Americans simply couldn't see the forest for the trees.

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"For awhile" seems to indicate that it is actually true. Compared to previous years the Middle-East wa relatively calm just before the 9/11 attacks occurred. Nice and cozy are obviously not the best chosen words, but I've heard worse statements from politicians than this one.

That place has been a disaster since Mohammed, most Americans simply couldn't see the forest for the trees.

Clearly the invention of Algebra, Modern Trigonometry and Numerals, massive advancements in Medieval science are clearly disaster for Mankind.

Its been all backwards since that point. And like they say, the sun shines on a dogs ass every now and again.

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"For awhile" seems to indicate that it is actually true. Compared to previous years the Middle-East wa relatively calm just before the 9/11 attacks occurred. Nice and cozy are obviously not the best chosen words, but I've heard worse statements from politicians than this one.

That place has been a disaster since Mohammed, most Americans simply couldn't see the forest for the trees.

Clearly the invention of Algebra, Modern Trigonometry and Numerals, massive advancements in Medieval science are clearly disaster for Mankind.

Its been all backwards since that point. And like they say, the sun shines on a dogs ass every now and again.

That's at least 300 years of history.. certainly until 1400 or so the Middle East had a far more advanced civilisation than Europe. That's about 750 years since Mohammed's death.

750 years ago America really was on a dogs ass. Or it would have been, had historical writing been invented\imported there yet.

I've always given them credit for their contributions, however, that does not mean that they weren't warlike and very intolerant of other faiths and belief sets. How do you think Mohammed and his ilk conquered the whole of the M.E. plus N. Africa? It surely wasn't through peace, love and diplomatic negotiations.

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Comparing Muslim empires and their treatment of the conquered to what the US has done in its pretty miniscule 225 paltry years is like comparing apples and oranges.

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Muslims started out as pretty tolerant (though not very creative- their major controbution is really preserving knowledge from the Greek)

They allowed other faiths in their empires but those other faiths were completely repressed and not able to practice in the open.