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 M. Azab says:
I don't see how you guys fail to see how our governments are buddy buddy with these dictatorships in North Africa and Arabia and how we perpetuate the hate by supporting these repressive regimes.">>

We overthrew Saddam, after the Arabs left him place for over 30 years. You are not happy with that either.

Which is it now?

<<"As for violence there is no greater purveyor of violence on earth than our government,even with Obama. It has been less than two hundred years here that we were fighting a civil war and brother killing brother for the right to hold slaves and secede from the union. We are just ahead of some societies, and were no less savage as they seem to appear now.">>

Nonsense!

Islam was on the planet right along with the rest of the world. Why are they still in the dark ages?

<<"And there is the litany of violence perpetrated by the Catholic church, and also the violence between protestants...

Von Neuman, a Hungarian Jew, provided the basis for the modern computer. Symbolic logic is largely attributed to Augustus de Morgan in the 19th century. Boolean algebra was invented by a 19th Englishman, Charles Boole, but has nothing to do with linear or quadratic equations and analog computers which did were largely a dead end.

Al Khwarizmi may have coined the term 'algebra' but he did not invent it. Diophantus of Alexandria had a treatise on algebra in the 3rd century AD that survived, probably because of Arab scholarship and translation. Look up "Diophantine Equations" - quadratic equations are a subset. However the earliest presentation of the solution of linear equations (that I am aware of) is that of Liu Hu in the 3rd century BC - in China.

This is not to put down Arabic contributions to math and science - optics in particular comes to mind, but it was part of a continuum of development.

E. Paubel says: "Also, with the collapse of Germany´s infrastructure by early of 1944, I doubt that Germans could even supply the camps with chemicals and maintain the service for all those equipments needed for fumigation and gas chambers."

Germany's wartime production reached an all time high in 1944. You are either an ignoramous or a Holocaust denier.

Hi Rachel,

You are correct. I do not "hate" Muslims. I have a few Muslim and Palestinian friends, but we never discuss politics. May be that's why we are still friends. :)
However, I do not respect Islam, which I view as a regressive, oppressive and discriminating society.
I believe that based on Islam's social standards and disregard for human life, it has not yet exited the 12th century.
I don't know enough about it and it's preachings, but it's easy to form an opinion based on what is happening now.
I don't care what Islam teaches or preaches, right now 100% of terrorism is perpetrated by Muslims and that's all I need to know.
It's up to Islam to change it's image.