[queequeger]

I'm not disagreeing with the idea that most Americans are linguistically challenged, barely knowing a language, but I was pointing out that after disparaging others for their lack of knowledge, he made a huge mistake. It's like saying "You have the worstest grammer and speling evr."

The example he uses for his 'absurd ideas' that Arabs believe is the Djinn, and that's part of the Islamic myth. They play a part in many stories in the Quran. Besides, it doesn't matter, I could use examples that many many Americans believe in angels, or that global warming doesn't exist, or that people with different skin colors have different genetic dispositions. The key line is that absurd is in the eye of the beholder.