1001 Pieces of Islamist Propaganda: Fabricated Exhibit Comes to D.C.
J. Christian Adams’ article “Fact or Fiction?: 1001 Muslim Inventions Comes to Washington D.C.” sheds light on an important but little-noted weapon of the Islamic propaganda machine in the U.S.: the whitewashing of the ghastly Islamic present by creating a fictional glorious Islamic past.
1001 Muslim Inventions, a traveling museum exhibit, has appeared all over the West to huge acclaim (Adams points out that Prince Charles and other luminaries have praised it; 500,000 visitors attended it in Los Angeles alone). It has indoctrinated hundreds of thousands of children into a rosy and romanticized view of Islam that makes them less appreciative of their own culture’s achievements and more complacent about Islamization in the West.
Sharia enforcement extends far beyond the obvious attempts to silence critics of jihad and sharia. The scrubbing of the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations, and enslavements from academic texts has been going on for well over a decade. The demonization and smearing of politicians who dare speak against the most extreme and radical ideology on the face of the earth is virtually automatic at this point, as is the self-enforcing sharia compliance of the mainstream media.
And now we see historical revisionism take on a new life, as history is scrubbed and manufactured Muslim myths are presented as fact. Adams shows how effective it is, recounting in his piece that the exhibit presents a Muslim inventor, Abbas Ibn Firnas, as one who “dared to dream man could fly 1000 years before the Wright Brothers.” Firnas didn’t actually succeed in flying, of course, or come close to inventing the airplane. Adams writes:
Notice all of the tricks of language. He was the first “who tried to fly,” and “passed into legend,” “more or less unharmed,” the “flying machine,” (implying moving parts), and “apparently gliding for some distance.”
But Adams’ eight-year-old daughter seeing the exhibit, did not notice all the weasel words:
She was convinced that the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly, and instead it was Firnas launched from the mosque at Cordoba a millennium ago. This would not be the only instance when thought corrupted the language of the exhibit, which in turn corrupted thought, at least among the more impressionable.
By creating a children’s attraction, the exhibit is fostering a subliminal brainwashing that will move into the public schools as well.
Gliding is CONTROLLED FALLING and has absolutely nothing to do with FLYING which is making something HEAVIER THAN AIR rise up and move. Among the other insanities in this Mohammedan HUBRIS of an exhibition is the Islamic claim to have INVENTED Coffee, the three course meal and soap oh nd Algebra . Well Algebra is INDIAN in origin and how do you INVENTED a NATURALLY occurring substance like coffee and they were the first people to realise you could eat more than one course at a meal REALLY ????????????? and they invented SOAP a substance that had been around for THOUSANDS of years before Mohammad was born and plagiarised the Torah and the Bible and distorted them both and INVENTED Islam. Now that last INVENTION really is one they really can claim.
I agree with all you’ve said except the “gliding is controlled falling”. Unless you were being funny, which, I’ve been known to miss that mark completely.
Gliding employs airfoils and the laws of aerodynamics and is, in fact, flying, albeit unpowered.
The Wright brothers developed many gliders before strapping the engine on their biplane. An engine, in and of itself, was a groundbreaking piece of technology, designed to provide power while being as light as possible, a problem they had worked on for years.
The French like to lay claim for “first powered flight” as well and will never relinquish the claim to the US. The box-kite that was flown by Santos-Dumont was said to have flown before the Wrights but he lacked documentation. The claim is dubious at best.
As for Abbas Ibn Firnas covering himself with feathers and “Flying faster than a Phoenix”, well. Many men in many countries fell to their death attempting such buffoonery. It wasn’t science but more an impassioned belief that they could do it. Possessing that much courage (bravado, ego?) over sense is not a scientific foundation for anything.
I categorically dismiss anything the sewer of islam lays claim to, legitimate or otherwise.
The story about Abbas Ibn Firnas covering himself with feathers and trying to fly may be true, but there is an old Greek story about how the great inventor Daedelus tried this with his son Icarus. Icarus flew too high, so that the wax attaching the feathers to his wings melted and he fell to his death into the sea.
Nice story, but we now know the higher you go the colder it gets.
Um, well, yes….
Perhaps you missed the point that the Icarus story, like the story about Abbas Ibn Firnas, is a MYTH?
According to Ensign Chekhov, the Russians did it first. Whatever “it” may happen to be.
Yeah, but what about the contributions to the science of flight made by Sinbad.
In the New Age, it is OK to lie. Islam never allows a good history book to stand in the way. If it did, Muslims would not be following a seventh century warlord, and worship towards a pagan shrine to Sin one of the 360 gods.
Yes, yes, I know, the god is greatest!
Leatherneck. You are more right than you know. Taqiya is the Muslim doctrine that condones lying in the furtherance of the Muslim faith. These people are not innovators; they are fascists!
Well, even though this blogger is preparing herself – as best as anyone can! – for the onslaught, soon to be unleashed in a Middle East hell fire, it is incumbent to still ring the alarms bells, for as long as possible.
None of this would be possible without the assistance of The Islamist-in-Chief!!
Therefore, please pay special heed to the following:
‘Islam & Blood..(a groundbreaking policy paper contained herein)The World Stands On A Precipice’ (July 13, 2012),
‘What The West In General…& Its Leaders In Particular…Know About Islam Can Fill Less Than A Thimble…Morsi’s Muslim Mafia Crucifies Christians’ (Aug 18, 2012),
‘Uncovering The Tip Of Huma Abedin’s Islamic Spear…The House of Al-Saud’ (Aug 16, 2012),
‘America Could Lose The Fourth World War’ (Aug 15, 2012),
‘The Muslim Student Association (MSA)Islamic Student Arm Of The Muslim Brotherhood/Mafia…Huma Abedin Board Member Too…What Does This Mean?’ (Aug 15, 2012),
‘Fungible Definition of Who Is A Terrorist Invariable Leads To Support Of Islamists In Syria, Sudan & Elsewhere..When Politics/Ideology Trumps Morality (embedded policy paper)’ (Aug 14, 2012),
‘Dhimmitude Comes To The US…Stealthily Knocking…Blowing Down Its Doors..A Nation (Mostly) Unaware’ (Aug 12, 2012)
and much more contained at my blog – google Adina Kutnicki, or put in 3 w’s + my name + .com
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Hey Adina,
Where’re you at? Im in Jerusalem. So, did you pick up gas masks? I kinda feel that they are not going to be a huge help, but in the end will probably stand in line like everyone else…Anything else i should prepare??
“the inventions and discoveries attributed to the Muslim world were actually stolen from conquered peoples”
It is really kinda nifty how jihád careerism sympathizes with the stolen from in this one case, but snorts with Dr. Limbaugh against the notion that Western Sieve may conceivably have done a little … ahem … “exploitative borrowing” as well.
Happy days.
Did you know muslims invented soup?
Soup is first mentioned in the Bible. Jacob was cooking lentil soup when Esau, his brother, sold his birthright to him for a bowl of it. I’m sure that it predates the Bible. Stone age, pre copper and bronze, cultures used pottery type pots to heat their soups.
Obama said that printing was an Islamic invention. That must explain why Muslims produce so many books.
Don’t tell the Koreans! Thems fightin words! When I lived in Korea we heard all about their accomplishments in their 3000 yrs of recorded history.Apparently they invented everything and then it was stolen by the Chinese and Japanese. Considering how often they were invaded and occupied, its more believable that Koreans invented printing than the muslim world.
Not to miss an opening for a Star Trek reference, the old gag on the original series used to be Chekov saying, “It was inwented in Russia” as was the common socio-political meme of the 60′s during the Cold War.
Seems totalitarian regimes love to lay claim to all the inventiveness and success of things, yet ignoring the fact that their populace cannot afford even the more meager appliances resulting from breakthroughs achieved by allowing independent thought.
The Koreans did invent their own writing system.
They sure did and will gladly tell you about Sejong the great inventing writing for the people, about how scientific and brilliant it is,how it is simply the best ever. It even has its own holiday called hangul day. I made the mistake of going to a Dr appt on the road one hangul day. Shoulda took the subway.
But they also insist they invented printing & even sushi. They do have a roll called kimbap,similar but not the same.
Many people have developed printing, usually wood-block printing. What Gutenberg perfected was cast metal type, where you make a few negative masters of each letter from which you can then make a lead positive printing plate. What’s amazing about Gutenberg’s work is not just that he developed the entire printing-press technology essentially from scratch, including not only the type but the ink and inking process as well, but that his Bible – only the second major project that he did, after some pamphlets – is practically flawless.
Gutenberg is a good example of free-market enterprise at its best. He had gotten some supporters to invest in the manufacture of souvenir badges for a major pilgrimage (declared every so often by the Pope) and had (oops!) gotten the year wrong. His investors were getting rather perturbed and he had to raise the money to pay them back, fast. I suspect that he had been working on printing for a while, but he essentially put the whole thing together in less than a year.
Well, now one can see how effective NASA’s involvement in making Muslims feel good has been;
especially since they must be using the expertise of James Hansen.
I think you just got extra points!
Here’s a list of other amazing things the Muslims invented:
The internet
Post-it notes
The Clapper
8-track tapes (the bastards!)
Etch-a-sketch
Velcro
Sliced bread
Pong
Cookies
Call waiting
Twister
Singing
Everything the guys at Apple have come up with.
Oh nose. Samsung ripped the umma off?
Don’t forget stretch Mohammed, and GI Jihadist… Only thing they can claim is suicide bombing
Tamil tigers did suicide bombings first. Not to mention Samson.
“Tamil tigers did suicide bombings first.”
But it took the Japanese to do it with style.
Actually Jeff the Jews invented terrorism as a political toll when forcing the British to recognize the Jewish state.
THERE IT IS!
The jooooooooooz! Those awful joooooooooooz!
Hey knucklehead. The Irgun gave the Brits warning. Show me an islamic attack where they do that.
Billy Jack: Terrorism has been with us for hundreds of years – You might want to go back to the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France, or maybe the anarchists in the late 1800s Tsarist Russia, or closer to home – John Brown at Harpers Ferry, as a prelude to the US Civil War.
Behold, the ignorant speaketh!
Hey, you might want to be careful tossing around that Billjack moniker. Tom Laughlin may be old, but he’s still dangerous.
Actual, he’s certifiable.
The internet. Does that mean that AlGore is a Mooslim?
No! — Al Gore is a µSlim, that is, mentally!
He did invent AGW scare tactics, however, and ways to cash in on them!
Come to think, that’s kind of like what Bro Mo did, 1400 years ago?!
LOL! Hawk, you are my hero! Between Roger’s “Bro Mo”, the “Stretch Mohammed” and this exhaustive list, I can giggle all day long! I heart PJ Media!
Islams “Golden Age” just so happens to coincide their violent expansion BY THE SWORD when they appropriated all the ideas and inventions of the peoples they conquered. What really exposes Islam for what it is is the fact that in spite of all this knowledge and invention that fell in to their hands BY CONQUEST they were unable to sustain it nor were they able to capitalise on it nor improve it . Instead they fell back into the forever warring tribal cesspit societies they have always been.
I mean they could not even find the OIL which was right beneath their feet. Just as well of course as they did not have the ability to recover it nor refine it and no Mohammedan ever invented ANYTHING , except maybe a LAMP, that you could use oil for. No they needed and STILL need KAFIRS for that.
Ah!!! the greatness of Islamic Science you know where a YEAR is only 355 days. A world where Moon God Allah does not know the world he supposedly created has a North and South Poles and so telling Muslims to “fast’ (AKA delayed eating) between sunup an sundown is just plain STUPID.
Muslims will give you all sorts of excuses for all this scientific STUPIDITY but its there in Black and White in the Koran Allah’s ACTUAL and UNALTERABLE words.
Once Upon a Time Islam conquered the Eastern (far wealthier, more heavily populated and with more complete infrastructure) half of the Roman Empire. They then proceeded to steal from, intimidate, murder, and forcibly convert the native populations and their ideas until now they rule over a bunch of sand while their citizens experience one of the most repressive civilizations in history.In direct contrast Christianity inherited the Western (a bunch of Balkanized states formed from dysfunctional barbarian kingdoms) half, and then proceeded to turn the weakest part of Rome into the modern world, creating more wealth, scientific inventions, and medical advancements than every other civilization in history combined.
This exhibit is only the latest in the 1000 year old mission of Islam to conquer the world. The West couldn’t be taken by force of arms, so now it’s subterfuge and deceit that will undermine us until, like socialism has done, they subvert our system entirely.
Gotterdammerung, your have it right. It’s called Taqiya, which condones lying by any Muslim in the furtherance of the Islamic faith. These people are nothing but fascists!
I saw this bullsh*t exhibition in Istanbul. Nonsense.
But as suggested, let’s just suppose for 1 second it’s all true. What do they do with it all? Nothing – absolutely nothing…
“…Adams points out that Prince Charles and other luminaries have praised it…”
…which in turn corrupted thought, at least among the more impressionable.”
Prince Charles. Meh. “More impressionable”. Double meh.
So the full-on rewrite of history is aawwwn (using my ‘street-cred’ lingo). Well, let me know how that works out for you. Next thing we know, grade and high-schools will be required to have courses espousing the limitless creativity and engineering prowess of the sand-people.
Yet, let me axe you dis: How’s come Saudi Arabia hires exclusively Westerners to do all the deeply complex tasks? ie: flying airliners.
Just askin’. If they’re inventors of 1001 things, well, then my answer to that is that the West is an inventor of 100,000,000,001 things by comparison.
Then, to add to all that, the attempts in the past whereby members of the sand-people actually DID invent something, the ongoing religious oppression by the power-mongers stopped it dead in its tracks, for centuries and perpetually.
Very appropriate reading is Bernard Lewis’ book, “What Went Wrong?”
Amazon.com: What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and …
http://www.amazon.com/What-Went-Wrong-Between…/dp/0060516054
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East [Bernard Lewis] ….” end paste.
As the title reads, the Arabs preserved some Greek knowledge, but…but…something went wrong.
When you resort to boasting of long-past glories, you just highlight your current inadequacies. Why not call the exhibit “How Far We Have Fallen: The Longer you Stay Muslim, the More you Stifle Innovation”?
This is very true. I am highly skeptical of any “Golden Age.”
National Geographic, another place where “science” has morphed into “politically-correct science”. They were also one of the early Global Warming alarmists.
That was no “transformation”. They’ve just been more obvious about it over time.
The “1,001 Inventions’” sister exhibit – “Islamic Science Rediscovered”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7c3LMNDIS4&feature=relmfu
Charles Bolden and a bunch of NASA bureaucrats toured the ME to ostensibly promote whatever the bureaucratic soup de jour was in Sept 2010. One way Pres Romney can cut millions from the fed budget is stop bureaucrat tax-payer-funded vacations. Folly, NASA as a muslin outreach program, embarrassing folly.
Its funny but their supposed Golden Age just happened to die out as soon as the conquered cultures became basically 100% percent Muslim. Shouldnt it have gotten better at that point, if Islam is so great?? Why did it get worse?
Wait a minute. Invent what? Allah gave them everything. There is no need for inventing. That’s why there are about as many patents issued in the Muslim world in a year as there are in Omaha in a month.
and for everybody worried about Islam, better to concern yourself elsewhere. Yes they are murderous thugs, but the world is full of murderous thugs. Without assistance from the Russians, NK’s and Chinese, they can’t keep their equipment working for a month, so militailly, they are hapless and helpless.
Islam’s only civilization-threatening weapon is their allies, Western leftists, including our Leftist in Chief.
The enemy worth worrying about is the Marxists, under all of their flags.
Stop and consider a world under Islam. Back to merit and survival of the strong. The weak don’t inherit under Islam nor have a voice to complain. The strong get all the gals. Speaking of which, no more gross gratuitous exhbitionist pop stars, goodbye to Barabara and Oprah and Garafolo, no more Berekely lesbians dressed as cunce demanding abortion. You will have to take a bag of gravel to gay parades, who incidentally wont be appearing on T.V in token anymore. The crook who robs from you will hobble out of jail if at all. Racism will be gone as all are servants under Allah, and to disrespect your culture will be to disrespect God and not tolerated. Your cultural achievements will actually be honored again and science will thrive for they like their heart bypasses as much as anyone. As for the weaponry and right to bear arms, gold plated kalashnikovs for everyone who can afford them. Religion back into the schools. Drug and alcohol problems largely gone as compared with the present. Taxes gone. Fast red cars with big engines will become popular again. Emphasis back on the family/families. Really it wouldnt be that bad, you would just have to redirect some elements of your faith. The prophet saw the flaw in christianity you see, nice guys finish last.
All you moslems are criminals because, by your own rules, you must endorse in public every word in the Qur’an.
And the Qur’an tells you that you are so “superior” to all non-moslem humans, that it’s not only your right, but also your holy duty to your god, to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-moslems in the world, simply for the “crime” of not being moslems.
So the Qur’an is a written hate-crime book expressing a permanent death-threat.
And all threats are psychological attacks (aka: coercion, duress, extortion, “terrorism”) and all non-defensive attacks are already classified as crimes.
After all, when you attack the Others first, then, by definition, you are the predatory criminal aggressor, and they are your innocent victims – there’s no two ways about it!
(Attacking second, in defense of one’s self and/or of innocent others, is always OK, and is in fact a mandatory requirement for having any sort of deterring justice in the world at all, ever)!
We in the West obey the Golden Rule of Law, which, by simply defining all situational morality as: “Do Not Attack First!” enables trust, progress, and Civilization.
(See all “Western” countries)!
You moslems obey the brazen rule of chaos, which embodies immorality as: “Our god says we always have to attack all ‘The Others’ first!” and so inflicts distrust, stagnation, and Barbarism.
(See all ‘moslem’ countries)!
Here’s islam’s “holy Message from god” as exemplified by the collective words and deeds of your Founder:
“I will save humanity by lying to, extorting, torturing, robbing, burning out of their homes, kidnapping and ransoming, enslaving, raping and murdering everyone who even only verbally disagrees with me – and you can, too!”
-Muhammad-
So obviously, islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where you say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
So, for the last 1,400 years, islam has openly declared criminal, aggressive war on all of humanity, right in your “holy” Qur’an.
And you’ve acted on it, too – with a historical average of a lot less than 1% of the global population, you’ve still managed to be responsible for over HALF of all murders (and all other crimes). Islam has killed over 270 million people (that’s OVER A QUARTER-BILLION INNOCENT LIVES SACRIFICED TO ALLAH so far)!
Islam has committed more murders (and all other crimes) than EVERY other human creed (both secular and religious)!
So, because of your official, “THOU SHALT KILL!” creed, (and even with having bred yourselves up to be one fifth of the world today,) you moslems are still from between four and several hundred times more likely to commit murders (and all other crimes) than EVERYONE ELSE, combined!
BAN ISLAM – because everything moslems pretend to consider “holy” is already a crime!
When religion is forced, cancelling free will, it isn’t a faith at all, nor are you able to be righteous nor wrong, because you’re only a slave! The “god” you can only fear and obey, never understand, reason with, nor love, is only PAIN.
“La ilaha il ALLAM; Allam Rasul Muhammad!”
Also, you’re all really only atheists, because you have no faith in even your own pain-god’s desire nor ability to enforce even it’s own, us-versus-them, might-makes-right rules!
Because, at WORST, all real religions only say:
“Obey our silly rules, or GOD (/’the gods’) will get you!”
But ONLY islam says:
“Obey our silly rules, or WE will get you (‘for god’)!”
So, your: “Submission, the religion of Pacification,” really only amounts to: “Extortion, the religion of Thieves!”
;-(
Dear U.Vladdi,
I grew up in an Australian muslim area and was spat at some 35 years ago by a youth we tried to welcome to our primary school. Their personal treatment of us only got worse and I could furnish you with endless anecdotes to support your claim. More recently they have introduced the drive by shooting to Sydney in prolific number. (That would be the fault of poor gun control according to our media however, just as it was we who spat at them causing the intitial rift apparently).
But the fact is, I was considering the irony that I might prefer to live under their cultural values than the unsavoury new-left-pop culture as it is in Australia (Y’know we dont even have organised reistance like a conservative movement in the states, we take all their whims up our proverbial for fear of ostracism/legality).
Is it possible that christians and muslims hammer out differences? Probably not, the sexual abasement of women and warrior ethic are hard to square up, but they do have much more in common with each other than they do with rampant free markets and rampant leftism.
What have they done for humanity lately? A BIG FAT ZERO.
This exhibit is only the latest in the 1000 year old mission of Islam to conquer the world. The West couldn’t be taken by force of arms, so now it’s subterfuge and deceit that will undermine us until, like socialism has done, they subvert our system entirely.
This is what its all about conquering the world.Our dear leader Mohammad Hussein may try and make Islam look so wonderful and inane but history never lies. Only Mohammad.The mad muzzies are a lot like commies and Marxists. Evil people hell bent on conquering the world at any cost and no matter how long it takes.
As far as inventing stuff they are too stupid to invent much of anything with the notable exception of some really great toilet paper.
…and yet TP for these bungholes is entirely missing in moslem countries!
They use their fingernails for toilet paper…
Muslims also discovered North America.
I read it in the NYTIMES.
Islam invented absolutely NOTHING. It simply violently invaded and enslaved many previously Greek, Christian countries, (and India,) destroyed them, and then, centuries later, pretended to rediscover their inventions.
Islam is a barbaric, us-versus-them, might-makes-right-based, predatory parasite. It stifles thought, it invents nothing, makes nothing, and does nothing but enslave and live off the works of all the civilized people it attacks.
Islam’s own most official instruction manual, the Qur’an, declares islam was created by “god” to violently destroy and replace all “other” religions and cultures in the world. The subsequent actions of their followers confirm this.
Further, they have declared it their “right” to murder anyone who even only verbally declares their defensive opposition to the moslem’s attacks, in declaring it punishable-by-death “blasphemy” to resist their extortions.
And it’s quite simple, really, to see how and why this is: our “Western culture” is based on Confucius’ (wholly Eastern,) Chinese morality, on the Golden Rule of Law (basically: Do Not Attack First! and on “THOU SHALT NOT KILL!”) and so we enjoy trust, progress and civilization.
Islam, however, is based on the exact opposite – on the immoral, brazen rule of chaos, (basically: “It’s our holy right and duty to always attack all ‘the others’ first!” and on “THOU SHALT KILL!”) and so they suffer from distrust, stagnation, and barbarism.
By an amazing coincidence, Islamic innovations stopped when they ran out of cultures to conquer. The fact the Koran is partly a manual on how to manage conquered populations should give someone a clue – they’re cowbirds.
“Cowbirds” — excellent!
I have it on good authority that Muslims invented telemarketing. That’s an act of war if there ever was one.
OMG, tedh754! I think you are right!
I have subscribed to Nat Geo for 30 years and have had it. There mag has dwindled in content to about 15% of the pages and they feel this need to interject politics into every story.
So National Geographic has gone from an organization dedicated to scientific inquire, to a promoter of legends.
This is a crumbling of our culture.
NG has NEVER been “an organization dedicated to scientific inquire (sic)”.
It’s been dedicated to Marxism since its inception.
You’ve been played.
Anything produced by an infidel is plunder. It can be land, religious shrines, doctrine, inventions, ideas…. anything. The infidel exists only to serve. That is Sharia. Anything that doesn’t promote islam is not fit to exist. From Buddhist statues to entire countries. That is also Sharia.
Listen to Maimonides, who ran from Islamic Cordoba in fear for his life-
” God has hurled us in the midst of this people, the Arabs, who have persecuted us severely, and passed baneful and discriminatory legislation against us…. Never did a nation molest, degrade,debase and hate us as much as they … ” .
That is what the Dhimmi will feel when Sharia becomes law.
Menachem
I recall that in Jewish Thought G-d offered the Torah to the other nations prior to giving it to the Jewish people, with the Ishmaelites being associated with the nation that rejected the Torah on the grounds that stealing was forbidden.
That leads to the question, from a Jewish perspective can Stealing (which islam has constantly committed on a grand scale from its inception right up to today) ever be equated to or ever be considered worse to Murder?
While it may be the case that one cannot bring a murdered person back to life, I’ve always been of the opinion that Stealing can also encompass Murder in the context of stealing someone’s life.
Stealing can include anything from stealing chewing gum to (as islam has done) stealing lands, peoples, women and children, booty, possessions, monuments / holy places, religious identities / figures, religions and even histories, which taken together with stealing the lives of others makes Stealing arguably worse than Murder from my point of view.
Muslims want to kill Americans, Kill our children and kill our grand children,
never forget muslims are our enemy for life,
if you see a muslim you must kill the muslim!
Muslims will be at war with Americans until every muslim is dead,
all muslims must be killed
every muslim,
start with the flying moderate muslims kill them first.
Please Remember
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Teach your children and grand children spread the word at Sunday school
Muslims are our enemy, muslims are Satan, muslims are a disease—- that needs to be evicted, kill all muslims, immediately
Why is such an exhibit popular? Why was it created, financed and distributed in the first place? Why are we so willing to accept the contrivances of presumed islamic contributions to the rest of humanity?
I postulate that none of this could ever happen without a large reservoir of cowardice and indifference in our modern world, ready to be exploited by the islamists, who have perfected the art of conquest for centuries. We might be tempted to indulge and rationalize by saying that our ignorance regarding the ways of Islam are enough to explain our gullibility and the misplaced benevolence that goes with it. But that misses the point: It may have been more or less excusable on September 10 2001 to know nothing about Islam, its ambition and its methods. Today, if we are still asleep and naive, we only deserve to be subjugated, literally, because the word Islam means submission, no more, no less.
So what are the tools Islam has always used to vindicate its axiomatic superiority? Intimidation and deception, regardless of the state of military parity, simple as that! Nothing short of courage and knowledge can meet the challenge, what part of this can’t we understand?
Ultimately, everything that applies to ordinary bullies applies to the islamists: The only sensible thing to do is to confront and defeat them. Ordinary bullies simply back off when confronted, and often seek accomodation. In the case of the islamists, they have their own particular method to deal with defeat: They just say “This is how Allah wanted it this time, we have to try again later!”. So, who is delusional and who is awake? If we do not exercise our choice and gather our courage to fight and win, it will be their choice to conquer and exploit, including soon finance and produce exhibits claiming that the prophet Mohammed himself invented the helicopter and the iPhone! Why not?
The National Geographic also has an Israel problem. They labelled Masada (pre 1967 Israel) as occupied Palestinian territory. It is likely no accident, as they probably feel that Tel Aviv is also occupied Palestinian terrortory
Muslems all eat ham sandwiches.They also have sex with thir mothers
I grew up in the fifties and will never forget the Cold War threat, “We will destroy you from within.” And now we have the current day version as you describe here.
If I was a conspiracy “nut” I would say it’s going like this:
1. Devalue the men in your society and everything that they have accomplished. Minimize their importance as providers and protectors. (Seems pretty much well underway already.)
2. Play up (and simply create where necessary)the “accomplishments” of the adversary culture and start preaching it to the young.
Then they won’t miss their own culture so much when it’s time to morph it into the new one.
Maybe the word “nut” wasn’t exactly the right one to use.
WHY NO MAJOR INVENTION OR DISCOVERY HAS EMERGED FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD FOR OVER SEVEN CENTURIES.
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Perish the Thought Who killed the spirit of inquiry in Islam? David Aikman April 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 29 The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly ISI, 244 pp., $26.95 What happened to Islamic culture? Why did a civilization that may have produced more books in Muslim Spain alone in the ninth century than existed in the entirety of the rest of Europe subside into a civilizational torpor that is the wonder even of the U.N.? Why do countries of the Arab world always come close to the bottom of a global list that measures things like literacy or schooling for women? Why, in Freedom House’s annual compilation of countries that are “free,” is there not a single Arab country listed? (The closest to the coveted description are Lebanon, Morocco, and Kuwait, which are only “partly free.”) Why, in 2006 to take a recent example, were there more foreign books translated in one European country, Spain, than were translated in the entire foregoing millennium in the entire Muslim world?
These are hard questions, and they call out for a rational, unemotional answer. Robert R. Reilly comes closer to providing a persuasive explanation than any other account I have seen. As Reilly succinctly shows, Islamic civilization, not just in the Arab world but later in Anatolia, in the Indian subcontinent, and then throughout Southeast Asia, threw out of the intellectual window the principles of rational inquiry that the Greeks had first introduced to the West half a millennium before Christ. The collective Muslim ulema—theological leaders—decided that it would be too “dangerous” to allow free inquiry—not just of the Koran itself but of the daily reality before our eyes.
The reason, as Reilly makes clear, was a theological controversy within Islam. Formalized Islamic doctrine holds that the Koran existed from all eternity with Allah, and that it was only when the Angel Gabriel revealed its contents to Muhammad that the world was able to hear, through the Koran, what Allah was saying. A sect of Islamic philosophers called the Mu’tazilites, who had great influence in the court of the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad in the first half of the ninth century, held that the Koran must have been created at a specific point in time. Otherwise, they said, where would free will be, since the events described in the Koran itself must have been foreordained? The Mu’tazilites believed both in free will and the ability of human reason to discern truth and justice. They considered that Allah must be subject to the moral laws that he, himself, created, and that humans themselves, not Allah, were responsible for any evil they committed.
The Mu’tazilite philosophy at first proved useful to the Abbasid caliphs as they attempted to assert the primacy of their political power over the influence of the ulema. But these first caliphs overplayed their hand, requiring all clerics to swear loyalty to the concept of a created Koran, on pain of imprisonment, torture, or worse. Inevitably, there was a reaction, and it then became the turn of traditionalists to insist on the “eternal” Koran and the associated idea that nothing in all of creation could be philosophically or scientifically examined without challenging Allah himself. The opposing school to the Mu’tazilites were called Asharites, after their founder, Abu al-Hasan al-Ashari (873-935). The Asharites completely denied that good and evil could be discerned by human reason. Instead, they argued, Allah’s nature was, quite simply, his will. Will precedes knowledge itself—which is the exact opposite of Christian thought, as it developed in the West. Christian thought proceeded from the assumption that God himself was reason, and that since all creation had come into being through Christ, the Logos, reason could and should be applied to the examination of all creation.
The Asharites would have constituted a serious blockage to Islam’s philosophical development, but even they were topped by a Muslim theologian who nailed down the hatch on the use of reason even more tightly than the Asharites. He was Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), one of the most influential thinkers, if that is the right word, in all of Muslim history. Al-Ghazali vehemently rejected Plato and Aristotle in The Incoherence of the Philosophers and insisted that, in nature, there was no such thing as cause and effect: Everything is a direct consequence of Allah’s particular will at a particular time. He also said, “Nature is entirely subject to God: incapable of acting by itself; it is an instrument in the hand of the Creator.” To question this, subsequent Islamic jurists averred, was to commit blasphemy by implying that there were limits on Allah’s power and authority.
One tragic consequence of this mode of thinking was the complete withering on the vine within Islam of the spirit of scientific inquiry. Reilly quotes a prominent Pakistani scientist, Pervez Hoodbhoy, on this subject:
Science in the Islamic world essentially collapsed. No major invention or discovery has emerged from the Muslim world for over seven centuries now. That arrested scientific development is one important element—although by no means the only one—that contributes to the present marginalization of Muslims and a growing sense of injustice and victimhood.
Another, of course, is the alternative universe in which many Muslims continue to live. Conspiracy theories about 9/11—it was all the Mossad’s doing, or Seventh Day Adventists, not to mention the CIA—are widely believed, even in “secularized” countries such as Turkey. Where is the evidence? It doesn’t matter. What has evidence got to do with cause and effect?
Reilly has mischievous fun in citing question-and-answer columns from the Egyptian media as recently as 2006. One reader’s question: “If a woman gets out of the bath naked and there is a dog in the apartment, has she done anything forbidden?” Answer from the expert on Islamic law: “It depends on the dog. If the dog is male, the woman has done something which is forbidden.” Another conundrum: “While I pray, a woman goes by. Is my prayer valid or not?” Answer: “If a donkey, a woman, or a black dog goes by, the prayer must be repeated. Why? The donkey is an impure animal, the black dog could be Satan in disguise; women are impure regardless.” But while such anecdotes can be amusing to outsiders, they illustrate a lunar landscape of the mind where rational thought itself is difficult, if not actually dangerous. The significance for political freedom of Islamic philosophy’s intellectual suicide is well stated by Reilly:
The primacy of reason, theologically and philosophically understood, is the prerequisite for democracy. Otherwise, what could serve as its legitimating source? . . . In such circumstances, man will not go about writing constitutions, for constitutions by their very posture imply a belief in a stable external order, in man’s rationality, and in his ability to formulate and establish a rational mode of government, founded in a rational creation.
The absence within Islam of any ontological basis for belief in the equality of human beings is what led to the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, signed in the Egyptian capital by 45 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 1990. The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that such rights apply to the entire human race, without exception. The Cairo declaration added the chilling stipulation that all rights mentioned in the Universal Declaration were subject to Islamic sharia: In other words, they were null and void.
Islamism, or the transformation of the Islamic faith into a political ideology, is the end result of the refusal to apply reason to either scientific or political problems. Ed Husain, a young, onetime British Islamist who abandoned the quest for totalitarian political victory, recalls how his superiors at Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic organization seeking to reestablish a global Islamic caliphate, ruled that buying insurance polices was haram—Islamically unclean—because all natural events such as car wrecks were “acts of God.” That was the wake-up call for one Islamist; but what use is reason in the face of the Iranian education ministry official who claims that the Tom and Jerry cartoons were concocted in the United States to improve the image of mice because, during the 1930s in Europe, Jews were called “dirty mice”?
Ultimately, as Reilly demonstrates, the whole human race is in the same boat when it comes to issues like science or the equality of all human beings. “To say that there is an Islamic (or a Christian or Hindu) science is, of course, to deny that there is such a thing as science, as what stands scientifically must be the same everywhere for everyone. Is hydrogen Islamic? Is there an Islamic light bulb?”
No. But that didn’t stop some Muslims, in the 1980s, in their attempts to render science sufficiently Islamic, from trying to measure the temperature of hell or study the chemical composition of heavenly djinns. As Hoodbhoy (cited by Reilly) notes dryly, “None produced a new machine or instrument, conducted an experiment or even formulated a single testable hypothesis.” Or even observed that, to live in a politically temperate climate, you need to employ reason.
David Aikman is the author, most recently, of The Mirage of Peace: Understanding the Never-Ending Conflict in the Middle East. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/perish-thought_556134.html
Or, to put it another way:
WHEN YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN CAUSE AND EFFECT, YOU BASICALLY DON’T BELIEVE IN SCIENCE.
The only good muslem is a dead muslem. Mohamed preached baby raping nuter all of them. They are as usless as OBAMA.
Valerie Jarrett Obama’s closest aide is Shirazi
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett
Preach this to the white house Pamella. They might decide to stop
getting behind all the terrorists now along with turkey. The white house
might even leave alone those muslim leaders who know how to handle their
people. Preachy article and right on most accounts but still a pile
of shit.
if the Muslims are so “inventive”,why did all that black gold sit under their feet for centuries,waiting for the Brits and Americans to invent a way to bring it out,and invent a way to make it a usable commodity?
Wow. There is a lot of hate in here..
I haven’t seen this exhibition, but it would not surprise me if it attempts to rewrite history. So has every other society, culture, and religion. Let’s not get ignorantly pedantic, ok?
Quote: The exhibit is almost unfailingly dishonest. As Adams explains, even if everything it says about Muslim inventions were true, it does not and cannot explain why Muslims never followed up on these inventions.
I can answer that. The Islamic empire spanned the greatest continuous land mass. Because of that, it was able to absorb all the research done by other civilizations up to that point and to start amalgamating the various disciplines and spheres of knowledge, creating the basis of modern science..
Unfortunately science forces a society to question God on an uncomfortable level. Same thing happened with the research and knowledge Christians have accumulated up to that point.
It wasn’t until the protestant movement that thinkers where able to reconcile their beliefs in God with science. They did it by breaking free of the Catholic Church’s stringent ideology and realized that the science they are partaking in is not ant-thesis to God, but rather a part of God’s universe. The fathers of modern science were all staunchly religious.
Hence why modern science is attributed to Europe during the time of the Reformation. And this is why Islamic science never really took off.
Also, for the record. If any of you bothered to read the Quran you would find that it reads pretty much exactly like the Bible, if not less violent. Please don’t confuse the actions, interpretations, and motivations of a few select groups of people to represent an entire religion. Christianity, and most other religions, also have bloody histories. Many times, far bloodier than Islamic history. Just read about the French Crusades, if you don’t believe me.
The west and Western religious traditions have, unfailingly, supported intellectual inquiry, endeavoring to champion those whose scientific research has expanded our view of the universe. It has been our religiosity, the very basis of Christian America, that has exhorted scientists to extend our understanding of the universe, and ourselves. Thus, Galileo was apotheosized by the Church for his observations! Yes, and there’s Darwin, for instance, a man universally hailed here in the west by Christians and the like. As are scientists who seem — we all understand it’s false, but they are just interested — to believe humans are contributing to a warming climate.