WHEN we were living in caves and mud huts and drinking from animal skulls and using bones, sticks and rocks to kill each other, the Arabs had astronomy, mathematics, doctors, law, agriculture, architecture, metal workers and potters.
They wove silks and cottons while we were running about in animal skins.
That in time we developed was because we had the 'means' in environmental terms to do so, while the Arabs had lots of sand and no or low rainfall.
All this Kilroy-Silk has ignored because as an ex-MP, I would hope, he knew all this, even if he has or chosen to forget it.
English language is partly Arabic-based and that cradle of Academia Greece came about wholly and solely by contact with Mr Kilroy-Silk's 'Arab world.' You can't judge a whole race by a handful of extremists.
D PRATT (Mr), Plantation Street, Accrington.
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