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"Arabic Numerals"?--they're not!
Reader comment on item: Mecca Mean Time?
in response to reader comment: West readily accepted the 'Arabic' (actually Sanskrit) numerals?

Submitted by Bruce McFarling (United States), Jun 24, 2008 at 16:18

What are known as "Arabic Numerals" actually originated in pre-Islamic india. They are not used in the Arabic language today.

See Robert Spencer's "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), page 93. He dispels many PC myths.

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Counterclockwise! LOL! [9 words]Abu NundikFeb 26, 2009 08:41
HILARIOUS !! [109 words]Bjorn FreeFeb 26, 2009 01:25
This is Al Arabiya News..It is now 10 pm Mecca! [9 words]AlanJul 4, 2008 08:04
Another proposition [14 words]GodotMay 21, 2008 07:52
MECCA MEAN TIME [128 words]V. RAJAGOPALANMay 12, 2008 10:52
Mecca, the center of the earth?!!! [128 words]M.D'SouzaMay 9, 2008 12:46
↔ Correction [49 words]NinaDec 19, 2008 01:20
↔ Correction to "Correction". [51 words]M.D'SouzaDec 19, 2008 17:07
↔ Get your facts straight... [117 words]MohamadSep 23, 2009 06:40
Separation is So Bad? [314 words]RonMay 5, 2008 17:54
Zulu Time = GMT = Mecca Mean Time? [284 words]Romesh ChanderMay 5, 2008 15:49
↔ West readily accepted the 'Arabic' (actually Sanskrit) numerals? [83 words]M.D'SouzaMay 9, 2008 13:06
↔ ⇒ "Arabic Numerals"?--they're not! [39 words]Bruce McFarlingJun 24, 2008 16:18
↔ charts [33 words]RandallApr 10, 2009 14:45
Jerusalem is the center... [6 words]AdamEMay 2, 2008 18:15
↔ Mecca Time is the best time [46 words]AhmadMay 18, 2008 22:39
↔ Allahs time [41 words]MiltonMay 25, 2008 09:38
↔ Mecca schmecca [191 words]RockyMay 27, 2008 20:04
↔ Ahmad....Ahmad.... Ahmad.... [190 words]JsupermaxJul 3, 2008 00:46
↔ Fisher Price Toys could hire you to record & insert your message into their 'baby doll' series. [48 words]M.D'SouzaDec 19, 2008 16:40
Same story different country [128 words]RJMay 1, 2008 14:22
↔ What time Koran uses? [68 words]Romesh ChanderMay 5, 2008 15:57
↔ center of the world descendant from allah wisdom and command [206 words]omarOct 21, 2008 14:28
↔ Corrupt Bible [27 words]Bible thumperAug 22, 2009 15:35
No science in mecca choice [349 words]Phil GreendApr 27, 2008 23:56
↔ Number of Nobel prizes (in the sciences) won by "the Muslim world" equals zero [52 words]Bill BennettaApr 29, 2008 09:02
↔ Racism? [99 words]Ali YoonessiNov 21, 2008 12:53
↔ Another victim if Arabian ignorance [597 words]dhimmi no moreAug 23, 2009 17:09
↔ Imperialism and Islam [311 words]AYAug 23, 2009 22:22
↔ :) Nobel prize? [44 words]AliAug 24, 2009 13:55
↔ Another tablighee and another victim of Arabian imperialism [821 words]dhimmi no moreAug 26, 2009 06:59
↔ Muslims and the Nobel Prize [169 words]dhimmi no moreAug 26, 2009 18:03

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