he doesnt either. he parrots conspiracies that have been scientifically proven false
i object to your use of the word “either”. that gives him too much credibility.
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.
I don’t see Robert F Kennedy Junior producing science or literature either.
Something, something …. He must not have learned Arabic numbers in school
Heroin Bobby with the Grandpa Joe aura
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.
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.
Yes because A Thousand and One Nights and the works of the Arab alchemists that were critical to the foundation of modern chemistry is all fake. /s
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.
Or like half the anti-colonial literature in 19th and 20th centuries… /s
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!”
This headline legitimate made me laugh out loud
Yeah, unlike quacks, grifters and con artists who make up their own awards.
No Arabic person has ever won the FIFA Peace Prize!
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.
He is recycling the same islamophobic shit that flooded the internet in the two years after 9/11. The arguments are 100% 2001-2003 era.
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.
Racist for sure. But do not excuse his behavior as ‘mentally Ill’ he knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
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.
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.
@barkas, indeed. Also the triangular sail, which allow the Portuguese to navigate down the African coast and reach the Cape of the Good Hope, and then go “back up” via the other side of the Atlantic (possibly getting an idea of where is Brazil, decades before Columbus reached America).
On Judaism, consider the Persian influence in early Judaism – probably all 3 monotheistic (aka Abrahamic) religious are initially influenced by key concepts from Zoroastrianism… some of the tribes of Israel had links there… but that’s another story…
He doesn’t seem to know who brought the alphabet to Europe…
The Phoenicians?
Who do you think the Phoenicians were? Do you think a sea faring people wouldn’t have picked up different nationalities? That’s why racism is so stupid.
On the original point:
Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built upon syntheses of Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius) and Indian mathematics (Aryabhata, Brahmagupta). Important developments of the period include extension of the place-value system to include decimal fractions, the systematised study of algebra and advances in geometry and trigonometry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
alphabet
posts stuff about algebra
I mean, yes, but note how the word algebra has arabic roots
The Phoenician alphabet descends from the Proto-Sinaitic script though. So a bunch of nomads developed Egyptian hieroglyphs into a script to write proto-Canaanite inscriptions, which was the common ancestor of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, the Ancient South Arabian script, and the Phoenician alphabet
How about the number system , we all be using Roman number system if it wasn’t for Arab mathematics.
Technically Arabs just brought over the Indian system. Would be fun if e.g. Slavs brought it instead, and it would be called Slavic numerals.
didn’t Arabs also introduce zero?
I don’t know how one would have a positional numeral notation without zero, even if it’s denoted by an empty space. Sure enough, reportedly the symbol for zero appeared in the Hindu numerals, derived from the non-positional Brahmi system. Although apparently both ancient Babylon and China already had their own positional notations, both with a space for zero.
Arabs added a system for fractions instead.
Or liquor
Algebra
Just written language, math, and the basic foundation of scientific advancement. Without those things, the brain worm might have prevented us from having to deal with him.
All right, but aside from written language, math and basic foundation of scientific advancement, what have the Arabs ever done for us?!
Aqueducts…?
Water you even saying?
Your humor is so dry
I want to make a joke about you making me moist, but instead I’ll just make a reference to making that joke as I think it’s less painful. lol. I get to make the joke AND have it not be quite as awkward. :)
Don’t worry… I’ll make it awkward
If by awkward you mean awesome :)
Actually I believe the first recorded, archeological proof of an aqueduct goes back to Assyria, and then at some point the Romans copied the design and put them everywhere, all of this being LONG before Islam was even a thing. History is full of similar instances where the person/entity who famously used X was NOT the inventor, and instead stole it from someone else first
Arabs were also a thing before Islam.
Very true, but I don’t believe they used aqueducts. Or at least, they didn’t invent the idea, which is what I was pointing out
Chess?
Which, coincidentally, is originally Indian just like ‘Arabic numerals’.
Motherfucker the Arabs invented algebra.
Math is woke.
The poindexter mathematicians tell me 2+2=4, but that sounds elitist to me. I’m going to pray on it and see what Jesus says it is.
Some Christians are dangerously approaching Abecederianism.
Bro, nothing riles me up like fake math!
As if x and y can be a number !
Al-gebra sounds scary
/s
Try an Algae Bra
Sounds itchy
Too bad Algebra doesn’t have that much of a use, except, it complicates matters. Why do we even need it when basic mathematics cover about 90% of the things we need to calculate things by?
Edit of shame: Fuck, I fed the trolls.
You’re an embarrassment of a user. Algebra has little to no use, period. Deal with it.
