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Re: Military Lego Sets
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:58:03 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Victor Knight writes:
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Pedro Silva writes:
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> > I consider that modern european civilization has a lot to thank the arabs,
> > who kept civilization during the dark ages. They were beaten off the Iberian
> > Peninsula because they did not want to fight, and instead they devoted to
> > science and the arts. On the other hand, my ascendants wanted to wipe'em out
> > the face of the Earth just because they had the "wrong" religion - and drive
> > the blokes out of Europe in the process. But I cannot claim that those who
> > gave me a language and culture were the bad guys... so I like the idea of
> > not clearly choosing a side.
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> Um did you forget the Arabs came to the Iberian peninsula via war and rape?
> Talk about one-sided historical revisionism.
My response sits at:
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=12382
Keep followups there.
LFB
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| (...) Um did you forget the Arabs came to the Iberian peninsula via war and rape? Talk about one-sided historical revisionism. (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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