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.
Heroin Bobby with the Grandpa Joe aura
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
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.
And to better sell this idea of Arabs not producing science or literature, let us ban algebra and algorithms so people don't think of those things ever.
And also ...capitalism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_economics
(I do know Islam ≠ Arab but a lot of key researchers and their peers were Arab)
Al-khwarizmi was not Arab tho.
Arab ≠ Islamic Not always.
Many non-Arab peoples also adopted Islam.
Be sure to read the fine print when reading about history..
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Came to say this lol!!! What a racist, stupid man!!
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
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.
Being a white supremacist typically entails having a poor grasp of recorded history.
You could even say ignorance is a prerequisite.
This headline legitimate made me laugh out loud
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!"
The fact the average conservative can see and even hear this and say its not racist shows how silly the average centrist is for trying to meet them in the middle.
"Arab is not a race!!"
As if there's such a thing as race.
Yeah, unlike quacks, grifters and con artists who make up their own awards.
No Arabic person has ever won the FIFA Peace Prize!
His father would be so goddamn ashamed
Mesopotamia enters the chat
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.
I mean Abdul Alhazred wrote the Necronomicon, which I consider to be both science and literature.
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.
I heard The Dems were trying to get kids in school to use Arabic numerals
Strange thing to say given how much his boss gets paid by the Saudis.
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