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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."
"Party happy long time boom boom belt" is in the top 20, right?
That's hilarious that they had this to say:
Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.
about the muslim who attempted to build a flying machine.
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Ewwwwww, coconut...
I made it to number 8, then I moved on to newer, more interesting news.
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Did muslims invent suicide bombings? I'm all for the suicide part.
"For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."
What are you talking about? I didn't even read the top 20, because there was no pictures!
Hmmmmm....
The suicide bomber - what in the world would we do with out them.
Actually Islam didn't start with Mohammed. This is a fairly common misconception. It actually started with Adam & Eve. Mohammed didn't 'found' Islam, he is merely the last Prophet and perfected it.
The Mongols.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Also, they state that when they die they'll go to heaven and have 42 virgins.
I say, "Fuck That!" I want heaven to be filled with power tools, non-stop lumber, concrete, cars, computers, and all the tools I can use for eternity! And a really slutty chick who'll do ANYTHING!
Where the fuck am I going to have time to do 42 virgins, who don't know what the fuck they're doing and who probably want to "talk" after words?!? No Fucking Way!
Tools and sluts for me!!
Oh yeah! A really big fucking screened TV with every fucking channel - including non-stop pron!
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Come on! A thousand years from now, Islam will clearly be more than 1.5 thousand years old ;^)
[I'm actually surprised no one beat me to it.]
>> perfected
Yeah. Perfect.
You have not experienced these inventions until you have seen them in the original Klingon.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
All Arabs are not muslims
I'm pretty sure that at least a few are.
Property is theft.
"And don't forget the ever popular "Method and device for destroying infidel skyscrapers"." As was mentioned earlier: Tom Clancy holds the patent to this invention.
And the latest invention on the list is the suicide vest bomb?
Actually I am sure they have made some significant contributions. But like most things it gets over shadowed by the negative, which is what is normally reported by the media.
It's pretty interesting when you think about it.
Virgin will not stay a virgin for very long if you fuck around.
But afterlife is forever right ?
And a lot of women with only one man gives really bad cat fights.
So, these suicide bombers will be stuck with 72 angry bitches for eternity...I suppose they deserve it.
From the man that brought you the internet!
Comes his latest mathematical invention: the Al-Gore-ism.
AhgGHgHGhGHghGhGhGhGhgHgHg!
ROFL
You do know this is slashdot right?
If everybody did read the articles, and then only qualified scholars commented there'd be like 3 posts per article.
Mod parent up: Informative. This is correct info.
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How offensive.
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d00d, u need to let go of ur h8 and let jeezus into ur 3
I'm no bible nerd, but I thought the roots of Islam go back to Ishmael.
Which explains why the Qur'an has so many harsh things to say about whales.
Cheney's not so bad. He'll always shoot straight with you. Or straight at you, as the case may be.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not entirely sure about the universe - Einstein
Yeah, but if Hillary wins in 2008, she'll be serving her 3rd term. (bada boom).
Right. And what have the Romans ever done for us?
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Jesus was Jewish!?!?!?! I thought all them Mexicans were Catholic?
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Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return? (he pauses smugly)
Xerxes: Coffee.
Reg: What?
Xerxes: Coffee.
Reg: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
Masked commando #1: And the camera.
Stan: Oh, yeah, the camera, Reg. Remember what photography used to be like?
Reg: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you coffee and the camera are two things that the Muslims have done.
Matthias: And algebra.
Reg: Well, yes, obviously algebra. I mean, algebra goes without saying, doesn't it? But apart from coffee, the camera, and algebra...
Masked commando #2: Chess.
Xerxes: Surgical instruments.
Masked commando #3: Windmill.
General audience: Ohh...
Reg: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
Masked commando #1: And the fountain pen!
General audience: Oh, yes! True!
Francis: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss if the Muslims left, Reg.
Masked commando #4: The three course meal!
Reg: All right, but apart from coffee, the camera, chess, surgical instruments, the windmill, the fountain pen, and the three course meal, what have the Muslims ever done for us?
i\hbar\dot{\psi}=\hat{H}\psi
...aqueducts...
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley
And now Britain is under American rule and everyone there are American subjects through governor Blair. Nice symmetry there ;).
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Let Jesus into my bum?
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