Pirates me hearties, pirates!

[--Pete]

Hi,

You'd probably hit all the targets marked "Western" with that, but that's probably a little too much definitional firepower: you'd hit Somalia!

Interesting. Mind elaborating? While I'm aware that the Arabs and Islam were preservers of the classical Greek culture which was 'misplaced' in much of the West, I've always felt that that culture was foreign to the Islamic mindset. That their social norms and mores came more from the traditional behaviors of Arabia, with strong influences from the Middle East and not from the West. But if you have a story to tell of how the classic Greek culture influenced the Arab world, I'd be very interested to learn it.

--Pete