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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

When I was in 7 th grade my math teacher used to get pissed at me when I did the problem in my head instead of showed the work on paper.

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this particularly diabolical form of mathematics

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

When I was in 7 th grade my math teacher used to get pissed at me when I did the problem in my head instead of showed the work on paper.

And I bet you still do not understand why she made you do it on the paper, right?

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Well thanks for the history lesson professor. Clearly I had no idea the Babylonians werent Muslim, and clearly my comment was made in all seriousness.

Islam is a few centuries younger than Christianity - would you say the latter is very new too? I would, particularly for us here in England where it only achieved victory a couple of centuries after Mohammed had popped his slippers. Christianity is less than a thousand years old in some parts of Europe.

Christianity was spread, particularly through northern, central and eastern Europe with extreme violence. As example, examine what the Franks did to the Saxons and what the first "saintly" king of Norway did to his own people, forcing many to flee to Iceland.

You only have to look at the texts chosen to be part of its scripture to see far worse instructions to violence, including genocide and ethnic cleansing, than anything in the Koran.

And in closing, it really doesnt matter what it might be that you are saying. The message is loud and clear.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Algebra will be eliminated in X number of years, due to N factors.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Your childish argument that "Christians did it too" might make more sense if you were arguing with a Christian, but you are not....

Never the less, two thousand years ago Jesus reportedly taught his followers to turn the other cheek. Today in Iran a certain woman, a mother of three who received ninety nine lashes barely won a reprieve from being buried up to her neck and then stoned to death for the alleged crime of adultery.

Islamic law is barbaric, as was the way Islam has spread throughout the Middle East, as is the terrorism Islamic radicals teach their children and use to further their religion and their religious agenda.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Your childish argument that "Christians did it too" might make more sense if you were arguing with a Christian, but you are not....

Never the less, two thousand years ago Jesus reportedly taught his followers to turn the other cheek. Today in Iran a certain woman, a mother of three who received ninety nine lashes barely won a reprieve from being buried up to her neck and then stoned to death for the alleged crime of adultery.

Islamic law is barbaric, as was the way Islam has spread throughout the Middle East, as is the terrorism Islamic radicals teach their children and use to further their religion and their religious agenda.

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ORIGINAL: Nineveh

Algebra was invented by Arabs, during the middle ages.  This diabolical thought process has now spread across the world and is being used to inculcate our children with Islamic thought processes.  We must cease the teaching and practice of this particularly diabolical form of mathematics before we fall any further into the clutches of our Islamic masters to be.

This would be sort of funny if it wasnt for the first treatise considered to be Algebra being written by Diophantus, a Greek living in Egypt nearly 500 years before al-Khwarizmi's writings.

The correct answer is the Babylonians, you can thank me later.

the Babylonians and Egyptians, roughly contemporaneously, informally solved what could be considered algebraic equations, but without the use of symbols and without the ability to handle fractions (in the Egyptians case) and negative numbers (in both cases), all of which are considered essential to algebra.

Youre welcome.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


The Babylonians weren't Muslims though, Islam is a very new and an extremely violent religion that spread through that region by means of the sword. I'm not saying that all Muslims are violent, they're not, I am merely speaking the truth about the way the religion itself has spread.

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

Babylonians? Isnt that Iraq?

Clearly they devised algebra for their WMD programme, the bastards

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ORIGINAL: Elisabella

It doesn't matter if you, personally, are a Christian. The comparison is between the Christian Western world and the Muslim Eastern world, not between the Muslim world and you.

The Christian Bible also advocates stoning women for adultery. Jesus said he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it. When he stopped people from stoning the adulteress he didn't say "Do not stone this woman because it's wrong" but rather "None of you have the right to punish her because you all break the law too."

Historically, Christian law has been just as barbaric. The Inquisitions in Europe and the witch trials in New England exemplify this perfectly. The reason the west is more advanced than the east right now is not because Christian theocracy is better than Muslim theocracy, but because we no longer codify Christianity into law.

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A hoary old grandfather compared to Ba'hais', Mormons, or Sikhs.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

You want barbarism? Read Leviticus.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


No, my arguments against Islam stand alone despite any claims that other religions may be similar or almost as new, etc.

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Still, Islam is an extremely young religion.

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A hoary old grandfather compared to Ba'hais', Mormons, or Sikhs.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
You take a thread where people are having fun and need to add your little two bits of bad weather with your prejudices and intolerances... typical

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


You're ever the victim, aren't you julia...

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
You take a thread where people are having fun and need to add your little two bits of bad weather with your prejudices and intolerances... typical

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You're ever the victim, aren't you julia...

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
You take a thread where people are having fun and need to add your little two bits of bad weather with your prejudices and intolerances... typical

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When you can come back with actual parts of the Koran instead of the things you've heard or the things that the extremist have perverted, get back to us.  There is much in Islam that is actually much different than what you believe it to be.