It is one of the great tragic ironies of history that the Muslim world moved away from this path of intellectual development in the face of a rising popular religious fundamentalism lead by the Wahabi sect. The religious extremism of groups like Al Queda and Boko Haram are bi-products of the popularization and politicization of the Wahabi sect, whose spread is heavily financed by the Suadi royal family who set up Wahabi based religious schools in poor Muslim countries in a bid to expand their clan's influence and power in the Muslim world.sjfcontrol wrote:Interesting you should ask…Keith B wrote:Isn't Algebra a terrorist organizaiton? I thought it was when i was having to do it in school.DocV wrote:AlgebraRKlenka wrote:What else is there to do in a school parking lot late at night besides drinking? :P
From the new "Cosmos" series.
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Tyson's second master of light is Ibn al Hasan, who discovered that light travels in straight lines. Al Hasan lived in a time when the Muslim world was developing advanced notions of math and science and thrived on curiosity and intellectual freedom. To this day, our science is a parade of Al's, from algebra to algorithms, alchemy to alcohol, all derived from Arabic sources. Al Hasan himself suggested error-correcting mechanism for filtering our prejudices out of our quest for the truth.
As far as the OP, if he's not trolling, I suspect that there must have been some other illegal activity involved for this to even be a question. Since he also cites the Drug Free School Zone law, perhaps illegal drugs were involved?