• Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I thought his brain was just so addled that he fucked his speech up. He tried to say the Muslim Brotherhood caused all Muslims to stop contributing to society. He’s mentally ill and racist, basically.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Folks there really is no reason to go all the way back to the Islamic Golden Age to disprove this fool. There are many many Arab scientists and writers alive and kicking at this moment right now.

    • ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.caOP
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      6 days ago

      He us recycling the same islamophobic shit that flooded the internet in the two years after 9/11. The arguments are 100% 2001-2003 era.

  • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Even if this total lie were somehow true, that there was something about Arab culture or Semitic people that magically made them unable to “produce culture” uhhh they’re still people?? Like they deserve exactly as much dignity and respect as any other people.

    But it’s also obviously a stupid racist lie.

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      6 days ago

      I don’t see Robert F Kennedy Junior producing science or literature either.

    • grepe@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      i object to your use of the word “either”. that gives him too much credibility.

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      Most of their arguments for years could be debunked with a 5 minute search. Problem is, RFK Jr. And the like do not care. They will say that shit all the same no matter how gars you debunk them. If anything, having you spend time debunking is the whole point.

  • Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com
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    6 days ago

    The sad thing is he could be surrounded by people that tell him “you’re right sir! They just sit in caves with towels on their head and plan jihads!”

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Yes because A Thousand and One Nights and the works of the Arab alchemists that was critical to the foundation of modern chemistry is all fake. /s

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      6 days ago

      Your point still stands, but this is probably a bad example. Many of the stories from A Thousand and One Nights were written by European authors to keep up the sales when they ran out of the originals. Many of the ones we know today were not written outside of europe.

  • Atomo@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Odd thing to say, as the religion these people claim to follow (and the “book” attached to it) is a reworked and simplified (i.e. monotheistic) believe system started in what is now Iran and Iraq. And if it wasn’t for “Arab” maps and maritime science, Europeans would never been able to start their colonial sea expansion and, subsequently, the great-great-great parents of this scum would have reach the Americas … just saying.

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      That’s an interesting topic, separate from the MainTopic (RFK is an absolute idiot). I’d push back on the idea that Portuguese and Spanish exploration was fundamentally based on Arab teachings: they drew on knowledge from many sources and developed their own navigation practices. Still, Arabic-speaking scholars helped preserve, develop, and transmit important astronomy and mathematics that influenced Europe.

      Likewise, Islam emerged in a late-antique world shaped by Judaism and Christianity, among other traditions.

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    What kind of numbers will we use if we want to express in writing a number of how many times this asshole has been wrong. Beware the number is probably not gonna be high enough.

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    6 days ago

    No, they don’t if we exclude you know… Science and litterature.

    I won’t speak of Nobel Price I never know who got anything.