You can fix it. They also have version control so you can see who changed it.
On 2/22/06, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > I was looking through Wikipedia for some terms to point out on the various > "Muslims is good people" threads. Terms like Dhimmi and Hudna. We'll ignore > those for now and get to what upset me. In the Dhimmi entry where it's > speaking about the treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim lands, someone made a > statement of historical inaccuracy. They said that Maimonides, the well known > Jewish scholar, had accepted conversion to Islam when his city of Cordoba was > conquered. It goes on to say that when he moved to Egypt, a friend of his > said the conversion was void. > This is supposed to show something and I don't know what. What it does show > is false scholarship. When Cordoba was invaded in 1148, Maimonides was 13 and > the Jews of the city were given a choice of conversion, exile or death. > Maimonides, his family and most of the Jews chose exile. I'd really like to > know where the false story of his conversion came from and why it was added. > False scholarship irks me and Wikipedia, as a bastion of 'add your own > scholarship' irks me to no end. Have we gone so far as to say everything is > relative and nothing is true. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:197857 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
