content: Let's all remember that the Arabic culture has existed for thousands of years.  They made amazing advances in art, literature, medicine, education, mathematics, and more.  You get your numbers from them.  We might all be counting in Roman numerals today if not for Arabic culture. Furthermore, they were on track to become a very progressive society (I know progressive is a bad word on Voat but fuck it).  It's only within the past century or so that radical Islam has taken all those advancements and flushed them down the toilet in exchange for throwing gays off buildings and hiding their women under black bedsheets. tl;dr Ancient Arabic culture good, modern Arabic culture very, very bad.