<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>> T</i></span><i>hey <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[Muslims] </span>have to have some pretty<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>serious inherited stupidity in that part of the world from the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>shenanigans of the last 8 centuries or so.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Muslims have behaved stupidly but I don't think the stupidity is genetic, I think it's religious<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">G</span>enetically Jews and Arabs are very similar<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> the ancestry of both<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> comes from<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>the ancient populations of the Fertile Crescent, a civilization even older than that of Egypt. Hebrew and Arabic are <span class="gmail_default" style="">also </span>very similar, unlike all European languages (except for Hungarian, Finnish and Basque) they are not Indo-European, they both belong to the Semitic language family.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>But for some reason about 800 years ago Muslims got the idea that the only book you need to read is the Quran, Jews like their holy book too but they thought other books might also have value.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div>