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Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor



William Ballard wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:25:36AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > The Christian Bible ought to be OK by most Islamic scholars - it's the
> > Crusader history that has caused most of the problems - but you
> 
> After 9/11 I saw a fellow named Tariq Ramadan on C-Span, and one of his 
> books was the history of Occidental peoples written from an Oriental 
> perspective -- in other words, what they thought of us "way back then."
> 
> At the time the Crusades were a border skirmish of only middling 
> interest.  Most of Islam hardly knew about them.

Yeah, I guess that's the reason why Saladin became such a legendary
figure.

Can we now pretty please close this completely off-topic subthread?


Thiemo



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