Most of you knocking Irfan appear to be just a bunch of neo-colonialists supporting the present unipolar Anglophilic political economic mindset to the full.

Don't know where you mob went to school, but calling Islam originally just a bunch of half-baked desert Arabs who took over most of the Middle East, would only get you all around four out of ten in any Global history class.

In fact, Mesopotamia of the time, including Egypt, is still regarded as having been influenced by Golden Greek Scientific Reasoning, as a result of earlier conquests of Alexander the Great.

In fact, the Great Library of Alexandria, though unfortunately later sacked by our Christians, is still regarded as one of history's wonders.

A great many Iraqis of the time, especially from around Baghdad, did retain for a period, a rather wonderful mixture of Islamism and Socratic Reasoning, which in the Late Middle Ages did in fact, according to historians, lift Christianity out of the Dark Ages.

Not bad for a mob of ignorant Arabs, as you appear to regard them

As stated by still receiving professors-decan wages at Melbourne University local art-historic guru, non-Anglos are just “a confetti” to a higher race of English-speaking England-related majority.

That is first and last point of feudal values imposed on socially/biologically inferior “free” inhabitants in Anglo-colonies of Australia and NZ.

I'm beginning to suspect that this invidious MichaelK character is some sort of jokester.

It was already explained on these pages that English grammar skills cannot substitute native speakers’ intellectual abilities if any at all someone attempts demonstrating here.

MichaelK, sorry mate I have to mark your last comment as 5 out of 10 for grammar. Read it again and correct for your gold star.

Could you also define what you think neo colonials are? And why some here, including me no doubt, "appear" to be such? Given I have no idea what this label means I would be most interested to know how you drag it into this thread.

Using grab bag labels does not an intellectual make mate.

Oligarch, he is no funster, believe me. He is just a bit dyslectic when it comes to English grammer. A pity really, because sometimes he does have a point to make, but it just gets lost in the translation. He does however, seem to have a phobia toward those of us who have convict/U.K. ancestry.