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Eh, it was a place we got all those things, till the whole region fully converted to Islam, and all the intellectual abilities died out. I do mean that, and as much as people would try to tell you otherwise in today's revisionist history, the Islamic period of greatness only lasted as long as the subject populace wasn't fully converted to Islam yet. But, people gloss over this because it doesn't paint such a wonderful religion in a shining light. Fuck I hate political correctness.
I've seen a lot of impressive stuff over there in terms of architecture and Ziggurats, etc, and yea, it's amazing how much was cut short in the birthplace of civilization by Islam. There is no arguing over this, period.
Your father likely thought of it with warm nostalgia since he was thousands of miles away and didn't live there anymore. It's a fucking shithole now, I will tell you that. Even oil and money rich Kuwait fucking sucks and is really no better than Iraq, or any of the other dumps I toured through and people need to be gassed.
The Arab Spring is going to prove to be a miserable one, I will say that. Especially in Egypt and Libya. Hamas is now taking up residence in Egypt. And you wonder...
Fuck Islam.
(And no, I do not want to hear some faggoty bullshit about Christianity, Buddhism and other religions being just as bad or whatever fucking garbage someone shoveled in your face. Christendom and the Church promoted literacy, the arts, and all sorts of other amazing things so fuck you, Islam really does suck and everything else is literally better as a value system.)
I've seen a lot of impressive stuff over there in terms of architecture and Ziggurats, etc, and yea, it's amazing how much was cut short in the birthplace of civilization by Islam. There is no arguing over this, period.
Your father likely thought of it with warm nostalgia since he was thousands of miles away and didn't live there anymore. It's a fucking shithole now, I will tell you that. Even oil and money rich Kuwait fucking sucks and is really no better than Iraq, or any of the other dumps I toured through and people need to be gassed.
The Arab Spring is going to prove to be a miserable one, I will say that. Especially in Egypt and Libya. Hamas is now taking up residence in Egypt. And you wonder...
Fuck Islam.
(And no, I do not want to hear some faggoty bullshit about Christianity, Buddhism and other religions being just as bad or whatever fucking garbage someone shoveled in your face. Christendom and the Church promoted literacy, the arts, and all sorts of other amazing things so fuck you, Islam really does suck and everything else is literally better as a value system.)