Book Quote:

The people of Iraq have sound minds, comendable passions, balanced natures, and high proficiency in every art, together with well-proportioned limbs, well-compounded humors, and a pale brown color, which is the most apt and proper color. They are the ones done to a turn in the womb. They do not come out with something between blond, blanched and leprous coloring, such as the infants dropped from the wombs of the women of the Slavs and others of similar light complexion; nor are they overdone in the womb until they are black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions, such as the Ethiopians and other blacks who resemble them. The Iraqis are neither half-baked dough nor burned crust, but between the two.

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THE SWORD OF THE PROPHET: Islam History, Theology, Impact On the World by Serge Trifkovic, pp. 174-175, quoting "a tenth-century Islamic writer." Footnote cites source as: Dinesh D'Souza, "Is Racism a Western Idea?" in Christian Ethics Today, March 1996.

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Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase likening pregnancy to "having one in the oven."