Do you think the Kent GOP regrets providing a backdrop for those disgusting remarks?
Maybe it’s not fair to equate all of MAGA with racism; it may be a deeper issue. Maybe they are all just deeply, profoundly, irrationally stupid. RFK jr was demonstrating both racism and stupidity in Michigan, campaigning for Mike Rogers against Abdul El-Sayed, where, rather than addressing politics and policy, he instead launched a bigoted rant against all Muslims, and to do so he had to ignore all the facts and evidence.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature." pic.twitter.com/ikZHqklQjE
— Bulwark Clips (@BulwarkClips) October 26, 2026
There’s five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don’t produce science,they don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature. They used to produce — they were the first to make books, and they, in the 13th century, typical Muslim princes had more books in their libraries than existed in all of Europe, and all of that tradition has been destroyed by the Muslim Brotherhood. They have created stagnant societies, that do one of two things, hatred and war and victimization.
Jeez. I’ve long despised RFK jr for his bad science, but now I have to hate him even more for his over-the-top racism. His claims are garbage through and through. You can’t equate Muslim with Arab; most Muslims are not Arabs. The claim that Muslims (or Arabs, it’s not clear who he is insulting) haven’t won any Western-defined prizes for great science and literature isn’t true, and the Associated Press has compiled a long list of examples. Telling us that they haven’t won prizes established by Western and colonial nations is not only false, but that Muslims have competed in a rigged game and succeeded is evidence that they have great ability. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928, and you’re claiming that this relatively marginal organization has destroyed
the Muslim intellectual tradition in less than a century? Remarkable.
It’s minor but amusing that he said Muslims only do one of two things, and then he listed three. I guess RFK jr doesn’t do math, just like he doesn’t do science or history. This could be the basis of a comedy skit, but Monty Python has already done it. It also wouldn’t be funny, since hatred and war and victimization are the foundational principles of the modern Republican party.
Those remarks ought to completely destroy his career, but I fear they won’t. The Zionists and the Republican party in general apparently agree with him.
MAGA =hatefuil i=wiullfully ignorant bigots.
Not just racist but misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic bigoted pieces of excrement that should all be scraped off a metaphorcial shoe and give no power or control over anything ever.
He’s an idiot. Obviously hasn’t heard of al-Kharawizmi and his development of algorithms, the basis of modern computing or Ibn al-Haythem and his significant work on optics and vision. Then there is al-Farabi who recovered and commented on the work of Aristotle so much so that he was called the Second Teacher. Or Nasr al-din Tusi and ibn al-Shatir whose work Copernicus used when he wrote his treatise placing the sun at the centre of the solar system. In fact the Maragha observatory built by Tusi was a model for the early observatories in Europe. Then there is Avienna, (ibn-Sind) whose Canon of Medicine was for several centuries a foundational medical text in European universities. I could name many more but I’ll finish with the Nobel prize. There are at least 9 Muslim Nobel laureates including the physicist, Abdus Salam who shared his prize with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg. A Muslim, an atheist and a Jew whose work in particle physics was later used by Higgs to predict the existence of the Higgs boson. Abdus Salam founded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy to support young physicists from developing nations in furthering their careers. What has RFK Jr contributed to the world apart from needless deaths from measles?
Talking of fatuous and silly arguments, how did he get to 500 Million without using Arabic numerals? How did he get to zero without using the Al-Khwarizmi authored (give or take) concept of zero?
I hate to counter bad faith arguments with silly examples that don’t necessarily address the concepts at hand, but they did it first so fuck it? Or something? Or I’ll come up with better arguments when the opposition merits it maybe? I feel like I don’t need to counter wooden clubs with gun powder weapons when bronze will do the job.
Or to put it another way, sometimes ‘yeah, nah’ is all you need.
It gets worse.
“Arab” isn’t even an ethnic group.
It is a language group made up of many different ethnic groups.
As Islam spread out during the first millenium, they overran almost all the groups around them, who ended up adopting the Arabic language.
To take one example, the Canaanites never went anywhere. They are still in Israel and Lebanon and now speak Arabic.
Another, the people in North Africa are really northern Africans who now speak Arabic and we call them Arabs.
Same for Egypt, Syria, etc..
Here is the Google search explanation.
Qasim Rashid also debunks RFk’s islamophobc BS very nicely if briefly here – yt short – RFK’s horribly racist proa against Arabs is also hella ignorant and wrong.
Islamaphobia is alive and well. Remember a Democrat going on about Al-Sayed, talking about 9/11 instead of the issues. Apparently “vote blue no matter who” doesn’t count if the blue candidate is Islamic.
@ ^ Recursive Rabbit : No I do not. Which Democrat specifically? When and where? Source please?
The Democratic party has a number of Muslim candidates of course including Ilhan Omar and Rashia Tliab the only Palestinian Amercian congress rep plsu Hakeem Jeffries .
It is indeed hard to define “Arab”. For instance, al-Khwarizmi and many of the other above-mentioned Muslim scholars were Persian, not “Arab”. Modern self-defined Persians (mostly speakers of Farsi rather than Arabic) tend to be rightly proud of this heritage.
@ ^Dóh! Okay maybe not Hakem Jeffires but afewothers I got him mixedup with breifly.
Like :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison
I wonder about Chandra Sekhar. He came from India and does not have an arabic name, but he might still have been (nominally) muslim.
Srninivasa Ramanujan was however – judging by the name – at least nomimally hindu.
Mike Rogers’ YouTube ads have been claiming that El-Sayed will bring Sharia law to Michigan. What could be more Republican than lying to morons to stoke fear and appeal to bigotry?
I always wonder what Republicans mean when they say “Sharia law” and how they expect it to be implemented when we can’t get Christianity out of the government despite decades of effort to build that wall of separation we were promised.
<sarcasm> And what about all of those ethnicities that produced so many criminals? Shouldn’t we be rejecting as worthwhile all those groups that gave us mobsters and smugglers as only harming society? Obviously, that means no more Sicilians… or, well, certain subsets of Irish…
And what have the Irish done for science? There are (thus far) only two Irish Nobel laureates in the sciences, and for such a prominent source of immigrants to other nations that implies that they’re not up to scientific inquiry. Send them all back, or at least keep them out of any position with responsibility for the sciences! <sarcasm>
Apparently, the sins of the father that not only can, but must, be visited on the sons (and, these days, daughters, when they’re not sold into slavery and/or just plain ignored) are ethnicity and place of birth.
Don’t worry about it. It is morally fine to hate him for his bad science first. His work in medical fields based on his conspiracy theories and bad science actively lead to deaths in the US. His racism is run of the mill over the top speech racism that likely has no effect beyond pumping more garbage into the political atmosphere. Sufficient reason to hate him but not leading to immediate deaths like his medical decisions do.
Ironic that a person who actively promotes an anti-science agenda is accusing other people of being not being sciencey enough. Also note that his boss, DJT, has not be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize despite efforts to preasure the organization to give him one. Of course, that effort is just because the last American president to win the Peace Prize was Barack Obama, a Black American with an Afro-Arabic sounding name. Yet more racism. Yet another reason not to vote for the Dumbster party.
Not to mention the most recent Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, Omar Yaghi, Nobel 2025, born to a refugee family in Amman, encouraged by his father to come to the US (alone) at age 15 despite his then limited command of English. BS (Chem) SUNY Albany; PhD U Illinois; Postdoc Harvard; Asst Prof Arizona State (where I met him), ultimately UC Berkeley. I would say that Omar and RFK pretty much define the entire range of human IQ, from highest to lowest… Although I’m embarrassed to belong to the same species as RFK. :-(
No more being nice, let’s really spell it out: Roadkill Frackyou Kennedy jerknozzle . a.k.a. J.A.M.M.M. (just another murdering magat motherfucker).
From Naked Capitalism: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/10/rfk-jr-condemned-over-baseless-and-nakedly-racist-anti-arab-rant-at-rogers-event-in-michigan.html (some redundancy to ionprof comment above)
Just last year, Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks. Yaghi was born in Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents. He also won the Wolf Prize, an international award for achievements in sciences and the arts, in 2018, for his contributions to the field of reticular chemistry.
Vaccine scientist Peter Hotez expressed relief that his late colleague and “brilliant co-US Science Envoy,” the Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, “didn’t have to endure” listening to Kennedy’s comments. Zewail won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1999.
Entrepreneur Saad Mohseni listed a number of other “Arab science giants” who came to mind.
Arab science giants:
* Ibn al-Haytham – father of optics
* Al-Kindi – invented cryptanalysis
* Al-Zahrawi – father of surgery
* Ibn al-Nafis – mapped pulmonary circulation
* Al-Battani – measured the solar year
* Ibn al-Shatir – pre-Copernican astronomy
* Ibn Khaldun . . .ETC.
So that explains it. Rejecting Arab science Bobby does math with Roman numerals.
@10: Ramanujan was a devout Hindu, according to the Kanigel biography.
The Muslim elites came in 3 periods: Arabic, Persian, and Turkic. The lingua franca of Muslim intellectuals was Persian, not Arabic, for most of their history (11th-19th centuries), because the Turkic elites kept it. (source: Islamic History, pp. 49-62, by Adam Silverstein, a Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford. Part of the Oxford Very Short Introduction series).
Never mind that most Muslims aren’t Arabs, and there are 3 main (Sunni, Shiite and Sufi) and many minor strains of Islam. The radicals that promote terrorism are almost all from an extreme offshoot of Sunni Islam. (Wahhabism, which is a minority sect even in its home of Saudi Arabia). Blaming all Muslims for the acts of a small radical minority is about on par with blaming all Christians for the former terrorism of the IRA.
RFK and the other anti-Islam bigots are profoundly ignorant.
Jeez. People are people, it’s that simple.
Couldn’t finish that post for some reason. First a correction, Hamas and Hezbollah aren’t Wahhabis/Salafists. The 9/11 terrorists were, as are the ISIL.
RFK and the other bigots suffer from laziness; an unwillingness to learn and to instead look for quick, simplistic and ignorant answers. People like that need to be kept away from the levers of power. And mocked for their foolishness, ignorance, and intellectual laziness.
StevoR @7
TheNewRepublic – Democrats Have an Islamophobia Problem Too (Oct 29)
Reuters – Fact Check: Hasan Piker 9/11 remark misattributed to Michigan’s El-Sayed (Aug 17)
Michigan Dems want to fight Trump. First they have to stop fighting each other (Aug 27)
Seems like someone is overcompensating for struggling with algebra in middle school.
As long as I do not have to deal with matrices and vectors I am cool with arabic numerals.
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-Do you understand how difficult it will be explaining to the next generation how someone talking and looking like RFK Jr ever was granted any power?
Not winning any scientific prizes is actually very much an attribute of mine…
Don’t be so modest, dr dr dr dr dr Alhazen – Euler.
It’s all ‘vibes’ with these people. They think most Muslims are Arabs and all Arabs are Muslims. They think no Muslims (or Arabs) contribute to science (like this RFK Jnr motherfucker has spent any time in any lab and looked around). What they think out of their ignorance and literal lack of exposure to the real world just becomes fact to them because they somehow have lived this enchanted life where no one literally snickered at them for thinking Arab/Muslims/Any_Brown_Person could ever do anything achieved in ‘the west’. The gall, the fucking ignorance of the facts on the ground is astounding. Or is it just bigotry? I don’t know anymore and I don’t fucking care. I resent having to share oxygen with such stupidity.
Oh not to mention we can source a lot of the failure of the Arab and Muslim states to establish liberal democracies to interference from the west. Why are there so many absolute Monarchies in the gulf? Why so many corrupt dictators in adjacent areas? That’s a good question. RFK Jnr could go look into that. But the complexity of the issue would be way way over his head. Even the high school level would baffle him. Much easier to self sample based on the work of other clever people who happen to share a skin tone and claim it as your own. As if only you could do it.
Google, via raven @ # 4: Being Arab is primarily considered a cultural and ethno-linguistic identity rather than a distinct biological race.
The fact that “Google” thinks there is such a thing as “a distinct biological race” is (yet another) reason never to use (any product of) Google.
Pierce, it does not say ‘ “Google” thinks there is such a thing as “a distinct biological race”’, it says it is cosidered such.
You are attributing to “Google” what it reports. Passive voice there.
(Why attack the messenger?)
JFK is not an idiot. He is a psychopathic scumbag. He is a calculating vile piece of shit.
He knows exactly what he is doing. He is also a criminal, a sexual predator, very possibly a rapist maybe even a pedophile. He probably also would like to have a pardon when/if is Trump about to leave office. He will do anything for his self interest, say any lie, violate any principle.
I will counter RFK’s words by noting that there are 75 million worthless American voters who do nothing but worship their false god, Donald John Trump. Whatever RFK has planned for the “Arabs” we should also plan for those Americans.