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2015-08-10 Home Front: Politix

Carly Fiorina: Islamic Civilization was “Greatest in the World”

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Surprise meter?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-10 01:49|| 2015-08-10 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 wrong... the arab civilisation perhaps flourished but in spite of Islam not because of it

Posted by anon1 2015-08-10 04:36|| 2015-08-10 04:36|| Front Page Top

#3 The greatest at slaughter and sacking every culture and society they came into contact with.

Posted by Ebbart Glererong5900 2015-08-10 04:58|| 2015-08-10 04:58|| Front Page Top

#4 correct they did enslave and invade their way across europe until they hit the gates of vienna in 1683 where they were smashed on September 11. The Caliphate declined after that to be dismembered by Sykes-Picot after WWI.

Hence IS yammering on about the borders

Really I think Hollywood should stop making films like 12 years a slave - not that it is not good but it has now been done to death.

About time we had 13 years a slave about the Irish, euros and US citizens taken slaves by the Caliphate

that slave trade was smashed in the first foreign war ever fought by the US. Thomas Jefferson smashed them.

Why isnt a great historic blockbuster filmed about that?

without any token *good* islamists either - historic representation of what they actually believed

Posted by anon1 2015-08-10 05:47|| 2015-08-10 05:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Technically, the Chinese were probably the "Greatest Civilization in thee World" till about 1700 when their ethnocentric culture finally got surpassed by another that had been in the Darwinistic environment of competition sorting out winners and losers in the West. The insular nature of the culture and the need for centralized control worked pretty much up till then (not counting the subroutines of dynasties). Their problem is similar to that of socialists wanting stability and predictability for control over the dynamics of social, economic, and technological evolution.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-10 09:57|| 2015-08-10 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Somehow I can't recall ever hearing about any Pax Arabia. But the surprise here is that some people actually believe this woman is a serious candidate for President of the United States.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-08-10 10:51|| 2015-08-10 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Somehow I can't recall ever hearing about any Pax Arabia.

'Pax Arabia' also invented $40m corporate golden parachutes. It's a seldom told story.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-10 10:55|| 2015-08-10 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 The epitome of hyperbolic pander aggravated by egregious omissions.

Posted by KBK 2015-08-10 10:56|| 2015-08-10 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 So...
Jeb-Bush v2.

I did think she was useless when she ruined HP and Compaq.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-08-10 11:13|| 2015-08-10 11:13|| Front Page Top

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