From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   suzeeq  wrote:   
   >On 1/27/2026 2:51 PM, rhino wrote:   
      
   >>A British teacher has discovered that it is Islamaphobic to teach his   
   >>students to play chess. It may cost him his job:   
      
   >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRprC8BtH8Q [6 minutes]   
      
   >I thought chess was invented by the Arabs. Or its basic format..   
      
   There was a predecessor game in India. Then the Persians picked it up.   
   When Muslims invaded Persia, that's when the Arabs began playing, and   
   the game then spread through Europe. Significantly, the Arabs had long   
   been Islamicized when they conquered Persia.   
      
   You are right to call bullshit.   
      
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