Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science

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5. GASP!! I found another nest of racists!1!

"Arab" is a cultural and linguistic term. It refers to those who speak Arabic as their first language. Arabs are united by culture and by history. Arabs are not a race.

And what filthy bunch of bigots is disseminating such racist trash?

Oh...the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Well, WTF would they know? Certainly not much, compared to our awesome faculty of Wiki-warriors and Google-meisters.

Islam isn't a race either. It's just a religion. But wouldn't it be great - for Some People - if we could get Catholics and Baptists declared races, so they could try (however ineptly) to play the race card against their critics?

And I'm a complete fail as an anti-Arab anti-Muslim bigot. As I've said too many times, I spent 6 years living in the Middle East. So I literally put my life into the hands of Arabs and Muslims on countless occasions.

Just FTR, Ramadan starts this week (June 28). So we can expect the usual round of Kumbaya Krap from the apologists for all religions, great and small.

Usual Irrelevant Trivia, long as I'm here - I very rarely saw camels where I lived, in Northern Egypt/Nile Delta. The end of Ramadan was the only time I saw those critters and the occasion wasn't a happy one, at least for the camels. They were tied up outside butcher shops, waiting to be sacrificed in the Eid al-Fitr feasts at the end of Ramadan. Camels are prized sacrifices but are very expensive, so generally only available to the Muslim 1%. And these were young (small) camels, not considered very useful since they can't carry heavy loads at their age.

/irrelevant trivia