Dis you submit a challenge? I have seen these on US political topics and on the Venezualan articles...
> 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:5:197899 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=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
