I want to explain Arabic numerals to him Just to ruin his entire life.
He will say they originated in India to be a smartass.
algebra chemistry alcohol
Rfk knows one of those words. But he doesn’t know they’re Arabic words.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derived_from_Arabic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabic_origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_Arab_scientists_and_engineers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-modern_Arab_scientists_and_scholars
Ah I didn’t know chemistry was one
Edit: nm I forgot – alchemy!
He thinks autism is caused by vaccines and/or over-the-counter painkillers. Frankly, I’d be shocked if he had anything halfway sane to say about Arabs.
The folks who invented the zero in mathematics over here (not me, the folks in Mesopotamia).
You sayin’ they did zero? Nothin’, eh? Wow, what losers!
;-)
I’m pretty sure he’s just three lizards in a leather sack.
Last I heard the amount of literature in Arabic is similar to what is available in Danish.
Arabic has 400 million native speakers, Danish has 6 million.It’s not like Arabic speaking countries are without literature or science, but they aren’t as rich in it as they should be considering the number of people speaking the language.
Maybe the Danish just won’t shut the fuck up (in writing)
Just written language, math, and the basic foundation of scientific advancement. Without those things, the brain worm might have prevented us from having to deal with him.
Coming from someone who is about as bright as the inside of a black hole, sounds about right for worm brain.
He doesn’t seem to know who brought the alphabet to Europe…
Or liquor
The Phoenicians?
Who do you think the Phoenicians were? Do you think a sea faring people wouldn’t have picked up different nationalities? That’s why racism is so stupid.
On the original point:
Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built upon syntheses of Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius) and Indian mathematics (Aryabhata, Brahmagupta). Important developments of the period include extension of the place-value system to include decimal fractions, the systematised study of algebra and advances in geometry and trigonometry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
These people think all Muslims are terrorists then they randomly just say shit like this. I guess if we assume they believe the things they say, they’re trying to be martyrs?
Shut up piggy worm boy, the only thing you produce is vitriol.
Maybe if they weren’t fucked with for so long by foreign interests that only care about profits and control then they would have been able to produce more and prosper
The Arab world hasn’t been a major force in science or literature for a while, but if you go back a couple of centuries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, dated from the 8th century CE to the 14th century.[1][2][3][n 1] The period is understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786–809), with the establishment of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, one of the world’s largest cities at the time. The institution attracted scholars from across the Muslim world to translate the classical knowledge of the known world into Arabic.[4] In addition to Baghdad, the intellectual and cultural activity also flourished in other urban centers of the medieval Islamic world, including Cairo, and Umayyad Córdoba (capital of Al-Andalus), as well as Damascus, Nishapur, Samarkand, Ghazni, Kairouan, and Fez,[5] and in later centuries, Nasrid Granada.
The period is said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate following the Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.[6][7] Select scholars extend the end of the golden age to around 1350, thereby including the Timurid Renaissance.[8][9] Others extend it to the 15th century, including the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, whose court remained an important centre of scholarship, culture and literature, or even to the 16th century, incorporating the rise of the Islamic gunpowder empires.[10][1][2][3]
So what if it’s not currently the major force? Last year’s Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry was Jordanian, for example.
The point is that Arabic countries only represent 1-2% of what they “should” in modern science and literature compared to the size of the language. 1500 years ago however, they were the leaders of the world.
IDK but I think it’s fair to say that something went wrong for the Arab speaking countries at some point in the past 1500 years. So they now are culturally and scientifically behind when they used to be ahead.Yeah, petrochemical wars.
Absolutely that has made things worse, but religious fundamentalism hasn’t helped either.
We had that too in Europe, but while Europe progressed the Arab countries seemed to stagnate, and even double down on it.
But I’m not a historian, there may be other reasons, I’m just not aware what they might be?
My issue with describing it as “not contributing to the sciences” by comparing it to the golden age is that it ignores the baseline scientific work that Arab PhDs, postdocs, and professors do contribute. I mean, the entire Iranian sanction thing right now is throwing a knot into the US university research systems that do allow foreign students and professors to participate, and much of their tuition dollars go towards student assistance for residential students. Just because it is not a bit new thing in science, does not mean that Arabs do not contribute to sciences.
To be completely honest, RFK is saying exactly that: the cultural output of the Arab world stagnated. I disagree completely with the why (Muslim brotherhood), but it is true the output in the sciences is not the same as during the golden age.
