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Aug. 27, 2006 Islamofascism is a new faux word invented by right wing propagandists to go along with the other mindless soundbytes (such as "cut and run" and "fight them there so we don't have to fight them here") that make up the effluvium of their pseudo-intellectual belief systems. It is repugnant and bigoted to attach the name of a political system of government to a religious affiliation. Most Muslims are apolitical and don't believe in dominating the rest of the world and forcing their beliefs on everybody else. They don't send representatives to America in an attempt to convert us in contrast to Southern Baptists who send their missionaries everywhere. Yet, one doesn't hear Muslims complain about Christianfascism. The Arab world, however, has been kept in the dark ages by sects of religious fanatics. At one time the Arab world was more advanced culturally and scientifically than Europe, and Arab traders opened the first trading routes to the Orient. The myth of Marco Polo was embraced by Europe as a kind of cultural promotion, born of jealousy and an inferiority complex. Historians believe Marco Polo never went to China because of all he omitted in his journal. He never mentions the Great Wall of China which seems like something that would be impossible to miss or comment on. He also never mentions tea drinking, the Chinese prediliction for foot binding and foot fetishism, and the use of chopsticks. There is more evidence casting doubt on Marco Polo's supposed travels. He supposedly spent seventeen years in China including three on the court of Kublai Khan, yet he is not mentioned by a single Chinese source. He gives not a single Chinese name for any town or river or mountain, and his directions to China are confused and inaccurate. The names of places that he did use are the same used by Rashid Al Din, a Persian traveler. He probably plagiarized Al Din's work. Marco Polo claimed that he taught the Chinese how to use catapaults, but these were in use in China before he was even born. The whole story that Marco Polo brought knowledge of noodle making back from China is false. I have a facsimile of a Roman cookbook dating to a thousand years before the time of Marco Polo, and there is a recipe for pasta in it. So what was Marco Polo's motive? Marco Polo was a merchant and wanted to make more money by increasing trade with the Far East. He had Messer Rustichello, a writer of romantic fiction, write his fictional travels in the guise of non-fiction in order to encourage and justify Europe's military, economic, and political expansionism. Europe supposedly "discovered" China. Therefore, it was Europe's right to exploit it, not the Arab's. Eventually, Arab influence did decline and the Russian, Ivan, the terrible, overthrew centuries of Khan dynasty dominance, paving the way to world dominance by Western culture. Today, we in the Western World have a superiority complex. It's interesting to know that at one time the opposite was true. ------------ About the author Mark Gelbart: My book, Talk Radio, is a black comedy about a radio talk show host who gets kidnapped and psychologically tortured by a loser. www.mark-gelbart.com Email: agelbart@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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