Yes, just as everything that starts with "The" in North America is "bad news."
The KKK. The Black Panthers. The Catholic Church. The Sound of Music. The Republican Party. The Cat in the Hat.
Yes, please, Lindsey, throw your hat into the GOP Ring for 2016. The clown car still has a bit of room left in it.
Senator Lindsey Graham: Everything that starts with ‘Al’ in the Mideast is bad news – Diplomacy and Defense
Speaking at an AIPAC dinner, the likely Republican presidential candidate reiterated threat to cut UN funding if Security Council acts against Israel.
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Israel seem to have that lot firmly under control. Strange!
Al – Arabic for "the".
Algebra, algorithym… from Arabic culture. Many first magnitude stars, Aldebaran, Alcor…His ignorance is on display.
The golden age of Islam, 800 to about 1250 when Islamic scholars were at the forefront of every science discipline – medicine, mathematics, optics, astronomy… while Europe was in the dark ages burning witches.
Islam was their religion, but science was their culture.
Around 1200 an influential Imam began to teach that it you were a better person to study god rather than worldly goings on, and the cultural focus began to change.
To this day, any event that transpires is "the will of Allah".
If that's as far as you are willing to go to understand what happened, you will never learn anything.
The religion is the same, it is the cultural focus that changed. Mix in radical interpretations and you have the formula that has left the middle east in the past for a thousand years.
Ever notice how Germany features scientists on their money? It's part of the culture, and because of it German engineering is renowned worldwide.
It's not the religion they practice, it's the *Cultural focus*
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He may have a point…