How to pronounce "wisdom"

positive, globally-resonating storylines

that could be tied to the same things

that other people were pulling mean messages out of

because then the person that's using religion for the wrong purpose

just becomes a bad man with a bad message.

And it's only by linking positive things

that the negative can be delinked.

This is the kind of thinking that went into

creating The 99.

The 99 references the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran,

things like generosity and mercy and foresight and wisdom

and dozens of others that no two people in the world would disagree about.

It doesn't matter what your religion is;

even if you're an atheist, you don't raise your kid telling him, you know,

"Make sure you lie three times a day."

Those are basic human values.

And so the backstory of The 99

takes place in 1258,

which history tells us the Mongols invaded Baghdad and destroyed it.

All the books from Bait al-Hikma library,

the most famous library in its day, were thrown in the Tigris River,