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Yes, it's mentioned in the site guidelines:

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

The comment picks a word out, then claims the book is 'framed as' that (it's not) and then pirouettes to exactly the sort of culture flamewar rehearsed talking point it wrongly accuses the book of engaging in, complete with the URL barrage such comments often include. Absolutely none of it has anything to do with Islamic architecture's influence in Europe - the topic of the book. As a first comment, it successfully kills any chance we'd get an interesting thread.

The people who flagged it were right and the people who vouched for it were mistaken.

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Given that the title of the book is provocative, I really don't see this the issue here.

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The title of the book is not provocative and even if it was, the guideline is there precisely because it is an issue for a messageboard with HN's aspirations. If you think escalation of yelliness is good thing for a forum, that's fine but HN is not such a forum and explicitly doesn't work like that.

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But no one was yelling.

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Nobody literally yells in on a text forum, no.