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  • Islam's gift to Europe

    From NefeshBarYochai@void@invalid.noy to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel,talk.politics.guns on Sun May 31 21:08:02 2026
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    https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2058243286444224849/photo/1

    Muslim immigrants commit more crimes than the native
    population, by ratios such as

    33 times higher for robbery
    20 times higher for rape
    27 times higher for attempted homicide
    27 times higher for blackmail (one of the categories led by Palestinians)

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 01:38:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    The place-system number notation, including the digit zero.

    (OK, that was actually copied from the Indians, and then passed on.)
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 01:40:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    Ever wonder why so many stars have names beginning with rCLAlrCY?

    ItrCOs because it was the Arab astronomers who named them, and passed
    the name on to the Europeans.

    Similarly in fields like chemistry (rCLalkalirCY, rCLalembicrCY) and mathematics (rCLalgebrarCY, rCLalgorithmrCY) -- all concepts that originated
    in the Islamic world, and then were copied by the Europeans.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 01:43:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    How did the Europeans find out about ancient Greece? Do you think
    there was some direct line of cultural descent?

    No there wasnrCOt -- the early Christians saw to that. It was the
    Islamic world that kept the Greek learning alive (what there was left
    of it). And then, finally, the Europeans cast off their blinders and rediscovered their own heritage, in the Renaissance.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 01:45:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    Speaking of the Renaissance, where did the European painters get the
    idea of perspective illustration?

    The theory had been worked out about four centuries earlier, by one
    Al-Haytham (also known as rCLAlhazenrCY), during the Islamic Golden Age.
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  • From NefeshBarYochai@void@invalid.noy to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 04:31:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics


    In article <10vinv8$1tv5d$2@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Ever wonder why so many stars have names beginning with "Al"?

    Infinitesimal contributions, all of which took place many years ago.

    Basically nill contribution to modern science and math.

    And...

    https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2058243286444224849/photo/1

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  • From NefeshBarYochai@void@invalid.noy to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 04:52:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics


    In article <10vio6v$1tv5d$4@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    [flush]

    While you're busy frantically torturing AI to find contributions
    to science made by Muslims:

    1) How many Muslims won Nobel Prizes in the sciences?
    2) How many Muslims won the Turing Award?
    3) How many math theorems are named after Muslims, and when were
    they developed?

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 07:01:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 04:31:04 +0000 (UTC), rjac@shell02.TheWorld.com wrote:

    Infinitesimal contributions, all of which took place many years ago.

    Remember why they call it the rCLDark AgesrCY?

    While the Islamic world was learning from the past and building on
    that to make its own discoveries, the Christian worldrCOs idea of rCLlearningrCY was making endless over-decorated copies of their holy
    book.

    And today, it seems some rather significant Christian nations want to
    return to those times, with science denialism on the rise.
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  • From NefeshBarYochai@void@invalid.noy to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 09:16:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics


    In article <10vjanm$224nq$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Infinitesimal contributions, all of which took place many years ago.

    Remember why they call it the "Dark Ages"?

    Yeah, yeah. But the Christian world snapped out of it, about
    500 years ago. The Muslim world did not.

    BTW:

    While you're busy frantically torturing AI to find contributions
    to science made by Muslims:

    1) How many Muslims won Nobel Prizes in the sciences?
    2) How many Muslims won the Turing Award?
    3) How many math theorems are named after Muslims, and when were
    they developed?

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  • From Michael Ejercito@MEjercit@HotMail.com to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jun 1 08:24:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 04:31:04 +0000 (UTC), rjac@shell02.TheWorld.com wrote:

    Infinitesimal contributions, all of which took place many years ago.

    Remember why they call it the rCLDark AgesrCY?

    While the Islamic world was learning from the past and building on
    that to make its own discoveries, the Christian worldrCOs idea of rCLlearningrCY was making endless over-decorated copies of their holy
    book.

    And today, it seems some rather significant Christian nations want to
    return to those times, with science denialism on the rise.

    Like men can become women.


    Michael
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Tue Jun 2 00:06:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 09:16:42 +0000 (UTC), rjac@shell02.TheWorld.com wrote:

    In article <10vjanm$224nq$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Remember why they call it the "Dark Ages"?

    While the Islamic world was learning from the past and building on
    that to make its own discoveries, the Christian worldrCOs idea of
    rCLlearningrCY was making endless over-decorated copies of their holy
    book.

    Yeah, yeah. But the Christian world snapped out of it, about
    500 years ago. The Muslim world did not.

    And today, it seems some rather significant Christian nations want to
    return to those times, with science denialism on the rise.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to soc.culture.jewish,nz.politics,can.general,soc.culture.israel on Tue Jun 2 00:07:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:24:35 -0700, Michael Ejercito wrote:

    Like men can become women.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-determining_region_Y_protein>
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