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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8186292" data-attributes="member: 6906155">"Traduction"? I assume you mean translation. In which case, yes there is, English 1706.Definitely false. Some are older than Islam, others are from SE Asia.And this is why it's a problem. So much wrong, starting with not everyone in the middle east is a Muslim, and not all Muslims come from the middle east."Ultra Conservative" being a pejorative term. It's certainly popular literature by anyone's measure - not that there is anything inherently with being popular literature. It's just a very bad way to learn about a culture.Yeah, also very dumb. It's like saying Star Trek is a good source of information on American culture.The focus is ignorance. Now, there is nothing wrong with ignorance. It's inevitable, as it's impossible to know everything, or indeed any more than a tiny fraction of all the things that are knowable. The problem is the people who don't know or refuse to admit their ignorance - "it doesn't offend me, ergo it's impossible for it to offend anyone else".But, sure, I know that talking to the wilfully blind is a pointless exercise, other than as an opportunity to gain amusement by giving them an opportunity display their foolishness. So let's end it there.</blockquote>