Do posters on forumosa represent (US) expats on Taiwan?

[Charlie_Jack]

@OrangeOrganics

@Charlie_Jack

They wouldn’t have learned much algebra…

So you are an advocate of colonialism then? The White mans burden to civilize the world.

You are using the same logic as the racist. The people in the countries that were forced to convert to Islam by the sword were lucky because they got to learn Algebra.
Same as people in India were blessed to be colonized by the British because they got some snazzy trains.

Think about what you are trying to say

I believe I thought pretty carefully about what I was trying to say.

I didn’t write the “algebra” remark. @Dawud did:

@Dawud

@OrangeOrganics

Thats so patronizing. Lookup the history of Islam. How would other societies have turned out if Islam had left them alone.

They wouldn’t have learned much algebra…

I was merely quoting @Dawud (sorry to drag you into this, @Dawud), in context, and among a number of other remarks, in “a sampling of the ‘anti-anti-Islam’ side in the January discussion,” in partial support of my remarks that

[t]here was a lively debate along these lines back in January . . .

and that

I don’t think everyone here is of one mind about Islam.

Do posters on forumosa represent (US) expats on Taiwan? - #99 by Charlie_Jack

That, post, in turn, was in response to @hanna149’s expressing dismay about the “Why do I dislike Islam?” thread, in which, in her words (not to disparage @hanna149),

. . . everyone else joined in to diss it [i. e., to diss Islam] together.

(boldface and bracketed material added by me)

Do posters on forumosa represent (US) expats on Taiwan? - #63 by Hanna