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1001 Islamic Inventions
pev writes "There's a new traveling exhibition in the UK entitled 1001 inventions. It contains some of the most interesting inventions from the past few thousand years. The common theme, however, is that they all came from the Islamic world and not the west. In some cases [the list is] quite surprising. For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."
... Torso-mounted, incendiary shrapnel delivery unit. Comes equipped with convenient thumb-operated trigger, warped perception of reality, and seriously misguided faith-based initiative.
the Koran is *inherently* an Arabic document, and - it is argued -can not be translated, but only glossed in other languages
You can argue that nothing can ever have a "true" translation outside its original language, because some subtleties of language-A will not exist in language-B. Howver, if the language-instance in question contains information, another language can convey that information.
Therefore, to say that you cannot translate the Koran amount to saying that the Koran does not contain any information.
In Islam, this is not an abberation - it is a key tenet of the politico-religious philosophy.
Not "abberation", "abomination".
Whether work-of-fiction-"K" specifies how to run a country or not, having one group's curiously silent imaginary friend at the helm always represents a pathological state in need of correction.
Islam is not *merely* a religion;
Agreed. It also counts as a memetic plague in need of remedy. But don't think I mean this as just down on Islam... I'd say the same thing about Christianity, about Judaism, about Hinduism, and the rest. Not that I don't believe in a deity - I do - but any humans who claim to understand the nature of that which has either chosen not to, or lacks the ability to, explain itself to us, you should get as far away from as possible. Because sooner or later (usually sooner), some charismatic village idiot will convince enough people that their imaginary friend told them to go on a killing spree against those with a different name for their imaginary friend.
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Before peaceful muslims no one thought about using suicide bombers against civilians.
Does anyone have a short list of the 1001 entries, I want to see where the suicide bombers place in it.
Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
Islam like it really is, a backwards, devisive, intollerant, oppresive religion. How anyone can associate that any great acheivements (which, I think have been pretty well rubbished here anyway) is beyond me, unless of course this is simply more muslim propoganda.
The crusades were a response to Jesus asshattery, because before this contest, 0 points are what I had.
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It could also be seen as an attempt to remind people that you can loose scientific reason because of religious fundamentalism (are you listening, America?)
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For those to lazy to read the article, all 1001 inventions are bombs strapped to small children.
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