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I'm anxious to go see the special exhibit on how Muslims re-shaped the NYC skyline on 9/11. And made room for more soldiers at Ft. Hood. And helped remodel the Pentagon.
Feel free to add which exhibits you'll be headed there to see.
Islamic Heritage Museum Opens in D.C. - Local News - Washington, DC - Washington D.C. - msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43931456/ns/local_news-washington_dc/ - broken link)
"Southeast Washington is now home to a new museum commemorating Islamic heritage in the United States.
...to demonstrate the diversity with which Islamic principles became a part of the American fabric."
Principles like jihad against American citizens on their way to work? And trying to blow up Times Square?
I'll bet there's a whole wing devoted to honor killing of daughters!
We owe a lot to Muslims and Arabs. Perhaps you should read American and world history.
I can show you a picture of one Muslim you owe a hell of a lot of thanks to.
The funny thing is the Arabic numerals that Muslim Arabs claim are their greatest contribution to humanity aren't even arabic in origin. Historians call the system "Arabic" numerals only because they were invented in an area controlled by Muslim Arabs at that time. Many historians believe the arabic numeral system was actually invented in what is now Iran by Persian Jews or further East in India.
You also know the English alphabet isn't English in origin right?
You also know the English alphabet isn't English in origin right?
Yup, the English alphabet is derived from the Roman or Latin alphabet. No Englishman is claiming that they invented letters. Arabs however claim they invented numbers.
The digits 1 to 9 in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system evolved from the Brahmi numerals. Buddhist inscriptions from around 300 BCE
use the symbols which became 1, 4 and 6. One century later, their use of the symbols which became 2, 7 and 9 was recorded.
The first universally accepted inscription containing the use of the 0 glyph is first recorded in the 9th century, in an inscription at Gwalior in Central India dated to 870.
By this time, the use of the glyph had already reached Persia, and was mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's descriptions of Indian numerals.
Numerous Indian documents on copper plates exist, with the same symbol for zero in them, dated back as far as the 6th century CE.
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