Retarding to Mecca

Planet Neandertalis is Shiny and Shinier.

"to revive an old device that availed me nought at the British Columbia show trial, "of course" not all Arabs are violent retards, but Arab culture is certainly both violent and retarded. It's politically retarded, intellectually retarded, scientifically retarded, judicially retarded, economically retarded, retarded on almost every objective measurement, from women's rights to free speech. The famous statistic from the United Nations' Arab Human Development Index (2003) - that more books are translated into Spanish in an average year than have been translated into Arabic in the last millennium - is itself a good working definition of "retarded", of a culture that recoils from inquiry and curiosity about the other. "