Akbar
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
President Obama praises Muslims for contributions in building the very fabric of America.
Really? Name three.
Much as I support recognizing immigrants’ contributions, I got nothing.
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July 30th, 2014 at 7:52 am
May 10 1801 First declared war by United States on the Berber Muslim states (Tunis and Tripoli) led by Yusuf Karamanli. Gave dimension to the US Navy and gave US Marines a little tune to hum.
July 30th, 2014 at 8:17 am
ok, the Moro Rebellion (1899 til now)
And lets don’t forget Jimmy Carter!
July 30th, 2014 at 9:43 am
Exactly, kel. Without them we probably would have had to suffer a second Carter term.
July 30th, 2014 at 11:39 am
That is huge on getting rid of Carter.
One might postulate that by conquering Constantinople and creating algebra, they did a good part in creating our industrial society of today by kicking off the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Industrial Revolution.
And then you’ve got Keith Ellison. How can you downplay his massive accomplishments? Duh.
July 30th, 2014 at 12:08 pm
Western Civilization (Constantinople, the zero,etc etc)? Sure.
The US? Other than the Philippine Insurrection, I got nothing.
July 30th, 2014 at 12:25 pm
Mr. Berg; please clarify. By “the zero” are you referring to our president, and therefore casting doubt upon his self-claimed religious beliefs?
Or do you mean that mathematics thing that NASA is so feverishly working on?
July 30th, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Algebra?
al-Khwārizmī was Persian, not Arab.
Pretty much all of the “cultural contributions” of Islam that we hear about are examples of a recently-conquered subject people who hadn’t had their inquisitiveness crushed, yet.
July 30th, 2014 at 5:16 pm
And the zero was Indian, not Arabic.
July 31st, 2014 at 8:48 am
OK, maybe this; the atrocities of the harem system helped us learn why polygamy was wrong?
Until recently, I guess.