“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” – Samuel Adams

NASA now an instrument of the Ummah*

Suggestions that Barack Hussein Obama was a “Manchurian Candidate” controlled by powerful unseen forces were once the realm of tin-foil-hat conspiracy nuts. They claimed that he was in fact a stealth Muslim brought to power to help take down the Great Satan opening the door to the international advancement of Islam and Sharia law.

Mainstream conservatives shunned such silliness. “Let’s stick to the issues and take on the Obama administration in Congress, the courts and the polling places. There is no need to be distracted by absurd allegations regarding Obama’s Muslim heritage, birth certificate, college records, religious alleviations, etc. There is plenty to deal with without crossing the line into absurd conspiracy theories.” Perhaps, but how much longer can we ignore the obvious?

For eighteen months we have seen time and again that Mr. Obama has an inordinate interest in the interests of Muslim countries, reviving regularly what Robert Spencer calls the “Question That Won’t Die.” From his bow to the Saudi King, to his apologies to Muslim countries, to claiming that America is not a Christian nation, to his historically inaccurate claim that Muslims have always been an important part of the American experiment, to his insistence that his administration refrain from using the term “Islamic extremism,” to his admission to Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit that he is indeed a Muslim there just seems to be no end to the instances of Barack Hussein’s apparent allegiance to Islam and disdain for American Judeo-Christian ideals.

Today we learn that Obama has directed the NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to make it a primary mission of NASA to “reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.”

If this was April 1st this story would be hilarious, but sadly our president is serious. He intends to take the most powerful and successful space exploration program in the world and reduce it to nothing more than a political agency whose goal is to advance the philosophy of a people who have sworn to destroy us. (Before you berate me with claims of “the majority of good, peace-loving Muslims” please read what the Quran says on the subject.)

In NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World Fox News reports the following:

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his ‘foremost’ mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

‘When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.’ Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

Bolden added ‘It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations),’ he said.

Despite much revisionist history to the contrary, Muslims have contributed very little to science, mathematics or engineering and hopes that they will be important partners in future endeavors is more than ridiculous, it’s dangerous.

Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, six centuries ago said “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” Little has changed in the Muslim world since that observation.

I believe our President knows this very well but science and engineering are not his real interests. Using NASA to advance Islam makes perfect sense if your larger agenda is to hasten the decline of the West and the rise of Islam.

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  • LYNN

    And we can’t get our legislature to pass a law limiting our laws to only those compatible with our US Constitution!

  • The Master

    GOD BLESS YOU !!! Someone who has his eyes open and is willing to talk about what he sees. If you were running for office I would vote for you! When will this clown in chief finally be impeached (brought to trial) for violating his sworn oath to protect and defend to constitution. He is a disgrace to the office. I only hope someone can find the interview comments from Egyptian minster from just after he was elected. They seem to have vanished. Find them and find the Rosetta stone to transcribe what he is really doing.

  • brianrutledge

    I think President Obama has listened to Diana Ross too much when she sang ” Reach Out and Touch “.

  • Mike

    What if Obama was controlled by iran…. that would explain why he Despises Israel and andy Israeli interests. WOW IF OBAMA IS REALLY “THE MANCHURIAN CANIDATE” then god help us all…

  • WXRGina

    Once again–We're in such TROUBLE!!!

    And, that's NOT hyperbole!!

  • Braden

    First of all, the interview was done by Al Jazeera. Saying that you're reaching out to the Muslim world in an interview with Al Jazeera is like pretending Saint Patty's Day is your favorite holiday when your in an Irish pub full of Irish people. It's even worse if you're a politician.

    Second, the line “Despite much revisionist history to the contrary, Muslims have contributed very little to science, mathematics or engineering.” I don't know if I should laugh and blow it off or cry. It's really no use arguing with you, that would be like arguing with someone who said, “The Greeks contributed nothing to philosophy”, “the Romans couldn't build worth crap,” or “the Mongols were a bunch of wussies.” It is a well known historical fact that the Umayaad Caliphate was the global center of math and science while Europe suffocated in the Dark Ages. I think your hatred of Islam trumps your ability to appreciate the past.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_medieva...

  • monkeydriven

    Braden, your first comment regarding pandering to certain groups for whatever particular reason is troubling. The NASA Chief was not just graciously handing out compliments for political reasons. He clearly states that it is NASA POLICY to reach out and uplift the Muslim world about what they have contributed to science and math. Using NASA, whose primary duty has always been national security, to uplift the feelings of other nations by order of the president is not the same as saying “I really enjoyed the kabob I had for lunch at the Bazaar.” I think it is disingenuous to dismiss his comments when he clearly says it is and has been NASA policy since before he was appointed to his current position.
    Secondly, I thoroughly read the link to Wikipedia you included in your response to Dr. Theo's article. Maybe you should have done the same. Here are some quotes from that Wikipedia link you may have overlooked:
    “In the course of the expansion of the Islamic world, Muslim scholars encountered the science, mathematics, and medicine of antiquity through the works of Aristotle, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, Euclid, and others that had been preserved in Persia and the Byzantine Empire.”
    I think we can both interpret this passage to mean that Muslims acquired knowledge from earlier thinkers and cultures.

    “There are several different views on Islamic science among historians of science. The traditionalist view, as exemplified by Bertrand Russell,[10] holds that Islamic science, while admirable in many technical ways, lacked the intellectual energy required for innovation and was chiefly important as a preserver of ancient knowledge and transmitter to medieval Europe.”

    Again, we see that scholars agree that while using the knowledge they had acquired from the lands they conquered, it does not seem as if the Muslims themselves were discovering the truths of the universe.

    There are other quotes from the Wikipedia entry that YOU CHOSE to use to validate you argument but I will run out of comment space if I cut and paste them all for you. Please, re-read your own link and reassess your position. What Muslim culture was during the Dark Ages in Europe was a repository of knowledge(as were monasteries) and most of it was from Judeo-Christian Culture. I think it is very clear that while the Muslims were very good at conquering and using acquired knowledge and treasure (much like pirates), they were nowhere near a fountainhead off wisdom, knowledge, and enlightened thought.

  • Braden

    Of course Islamic culture encountered the teachings of Greek and Roman scientists and thinkers. No society in human history has started completely from scratch. Societies learn the knowlege of their neighbors and their ancestors and build upon it. The idea that Muslim scholars took Greek and Roman knowledge and simply sat on it for a few hundred years is laughable. I don't know any society, especially one as powerful as the Caliphate was then, that has done that.

    I'll mention the Islamic contributions to astronomy, since that is the area I am probably most familiar with. Christian teaching at the time was that the Earth was flat, at the center of the universe, and it was covered by the heavens making a sort of dome shape, with the stars being points fixed to that dome. Islamic scholars were light years ahead of this at the time. They built some of the first observatories, and realized that the Earth was not the center of the universe. They realized that the stars were not tiny points of light, but actually massive objects far, far away, and that these objects were subject to the same physical laws as Earth.

    But I shouldn't have to point out all the advances in science under the Caliphate. They were they most powerful empire on Earth at the time, logic would dictate that they made countless advances, as empires have done before and since then. However many on the far right see history solely through the lense of their conservative worldview. It makes them uncomfortable to imagine Islamic culture as the most powerful in the world, so they dismiss any evidence that it was once so.

  • monkeydriven

    Actually, could you please “point out all the advances in science under the Caliphate?” I say all because I'm sure it will only require a paragraph or two. Also, logic DOES NOT DICTATE that they made countless advances….facts and evidence do. I suspect I'll be waiting for quite some time. In fact, I can name more remarkable achievements by solely Americans in the 20th century than you can for 800 years of the Caliphate.

  • http://www.dakotavoice.com dr. theo

    Braden, the Bible indicates that the earth is a globe, as in Isaiah 40:22, where it mentions the “circle of the earth” and Job 26:10, where it teaches that God has “inscribed” a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness. Such early Christians as Clement, Origen, Ambrose, Augustine, Isodore, Albertus Magnus and Aquinas all accepted the Earth was a globe. There is not a word in Hebrew that translates well to “sphere” or “globe” and that leaves some ambiguity according to some critics.

    It is a myth that the earth was widely believed to be flat. No doubt, there were likely some ignorant, uneducated peoples that could not grasp the idea of a globe, but your contention that it was the Muslims that determined the earth was round is just not true. As to astrology, the Chaldeans, the Persians and the Egyptians had the movement of the heavens pretty well worked out a thousand years before Mohamhead. The Muslim invaders simply assimilated what they could from the conquered lands (that which they didn't destroy), including Bysantine archetecture, Egyptian and Persian medicine, Greek and Hindu mathematics, Roman engineering, etc.

    I will ask, as does monkeydriven, that you provide two or three SPECIFIC examples of contributions of Muslims during any period of history.

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