Obama's NASA "Outreach" to help Muslims "feel good" about themselves

[Peter]

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Obama apparently thinks it's his job to boost the self-esteem of Middle Eastern Muslims (the way the PC crowd instills a false sense of self-esteem in grade-schoolers) by whoring out NASA to recognize Muslim "contributions" to mankind.

"Bolden created a firestorm after telling Al Jazeera last month that President Obama told him before he took the job that he wanted him to do three things: inspire children to learn math and science, expand international relationships 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." "

Hmmmm..... what are those historic contributions?

September 12, 2005 the Palestinians burned synagogues in "celebration" in Gaza. A little later they gutted out and destroyed the Gush Katif greenhouses, destroying their opportunity to produce over a hundred million dollars worth of produce every year, just like the Israelis did. Today they sit around and wait for international food welfare instead. http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=494.0

Genesis 12:2-3   And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

The Israeli Jews are perhaps the most productive people in the world. In terms of their being a blessing for the whole world consider:

Achievement (from anonymous email source):

"The Global Islamic population is approximately 2,000,000,000 or 33% of
the world's population.  They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
     1990 - Elias James Corey - raised Catholic (erroneously listed as a Muslim in this annonymous email)
1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics: (zero)

Physics: (zero)

Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
     1998 - Ferid Mourad - Episcopalian (erroneously listed as a Muslim in this annonymous email)

(A very kind reader brought to my attention that the author of the email copied here was incorrect regarding two of the persons listed as Muslims. Ferid Mourad and Elias James Corey were not. Thus the tally is even bleaker than it had been!)

TOTAL: SEVEN (FIVE is the actual total barring any future corrections) And Yaser Arafat is one of those!!!!!!!!!!!
"Throwing stones? Under Arafat, 50 tons of explosives and weapons were captured by the IDF on the Iranian-Palestinian terror ship the "Karin-A"
"Arafat's terrorism was directly responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent civilians in Israel, Jordan and Lebanon."
____________________________________

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pa sternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phil lips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Joseph son
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Mil ton Friedman
1978 - Herb ert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Ed elman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Ed ward B. Lewis

TOTAL: 129
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A Muslim mentioned that the email copy and pasted above missed Ahmed Hassan Zewail, not noticing that it missed the category of Chemistry altogether.

Chemistry:

Muslims:

    1999 - Ahmed Hassan Zewail

Jews:

    * 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
    * 1906 - Henri Moissan
    * 1910 - Otto Wallach
    * 1915 - Richard Willstaetter
    * 1918 - Fritz Haber
    * 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
    * 1961 - Melvin Calvin
    * 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
    * 1972 - William Howard Stein
    * 1977 - Ilya Prigogine
    * 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
    * 1980 - Paul Berg
    * 1980 - Walter Gilbert
    * 1981 - Roald Hoffmann
    * 1982 - Aaron Klug
    * 1985 - Herbert Hauptman
    * 1985 - Jerome Karle
    * 1989 - Sidney Altman
    * 1992 - Rudolph Marcus
    * 1998 - Walter Kohn
    * 2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
    * 2006 - Roger Kornberg
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html

"Of course this is due to the great Zionist conspiricy, right? Don't make me laugh!

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims! The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew that has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew that protests by killing people.

The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and
death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel" -Benjamin Netanyahu"

From TheReligionOfPeace.com

"In 2007 Islam and Judaism's holiest holidays overlapped for 10 days.
Muslims racked up 397 dead bodies in 94 terror attacks across 10
countries during this time... while Jews worked on their 159th Nobel Prize."



Straight to article:
http://www.islamfortoday.com/saudi01.htm

What about countries that are 100% Muslim where everyone is ruled under the perfection of Islamic Sharia law? (and increasingly elsewhere (video)).
Bear in mind that this is the same sharia law that the Saudis are exporting to Nigeria and many other parts of the world, and the same that is coming to the U.S. through Saudi built Islamic centers and mosques.

In Saudia Arabia 15 girls were killed because Islamic religious police sent them back into a burning school for trying to emerge from the burning building without head coverings.
"The English-language Saudi Gazette, in a front-page report yesterday quoted witnesses as saying that members of the religious police stopped men who tried to help the girls escape from the building, saying: 'It is sinful to approach them.'"
http://www.islamfortoday.com/saudi01.htm
"A civil defense officer told an Arabic-language newspaper, al-Eqtisadiah, that he saw three members of the religious police "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya"."
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?board=56.0

Basically, about the only thing that Muslims produce, in countries where they have control, is murder, mayhem and misery.

What we learn is that the "age of ignorance" as Muslims refer to the pre-Islamic period, did not end with Mohammed, but for them, rather, began with Mohammed.
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?board=56.0

[Peter]

Obama supports science and technology development in Muslim countries

— By Daniel Gorelick, 4 June 2009

The media and the blogosphere are buzzing about President Obama’s speech at Cairo University in Egypt.

Obama had this to say about Muslim contributions to science and technology:

“It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra;....."

Timeline of algebra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_algebra

"...... our magnetic compass ..........."

Whoops missed again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass#History

"..... and tools of navigation; ......"

"The apparent failure of the Arabs to function as possible intermediaries between East and West due to the earlier recorded appearance of the compass in Europe (1190)[25]  than in the Muslim world (1232, 1242, and 1282).[26][27]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation
Muslim "innovation" in "tools of navigation", when they couldn't even get right the direction to point their mosques in Mecca, that were located in the same city as the kaaba??!!!
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=1230.msg6577#msg6577

"...... our mastery of pens and printing; ......."

So the written word began in the 7th century????!!!!!
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?board=56.0

"....... our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.”

Mohammed's contribution to medicine and wellness!

 “Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said "If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease” (Book of Medicine).
http://www.islam-watch.org/SherKhan/Mohammed-Never-Hurt-Fly-but-Slaughtered-People.htm

Maybe Obama doesn't have internet access!

[Peter]

Initiative

    * Islam and Science Don't Mix  The Washington Times argues that the U.S. has nothing to gain in scientific discourse with Muslim nations. "What's unclear is what Mr. Bolden believes the United States has to gain by reaching out to a part of the world that has been technologically stagnant for centuries. The Muslim world has nothing to offer the United States as a space-faring nation. If anything, America should be discouraging Middle East space programs. ... Islam's meager contribution to human technological advancement is no accident."

    * 'Psychobabble' and 'Imperial Condescension'  The Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer says on Fox News, "This is a new height in fatuousness. NASA was established to get America into space and to keep us there. This idea of to feel good about their past scientific achievements, it's the worst combination of group therapy, psychobabble, imperial condescension, and adolescent diplomacy. If I didn't know that Obama had told this, I'd demand the firing of Charles Bolden the way I would Michael Steele. This is absolutely unbelievable."

    * Proves Muslims Should Love America More  Fox News host Sean Hannity professed, "look, I have a hard time with the president's, quote, 'outreach' to the Muslim community in this way. When he spoke to the Muslim world, he didn't talk about America's contributions to Kuwait. He didn't talk about America's contributions to Kosovo. He didn't talk about America's contributions to Indonesia or Iraq. Doesn't -- I don't hear America being praised enough by the Muslim world. Does the Muslim world give America the credit it's due?"

    * Bush's NASA Head Condemns  Fox News' Judson Berger reports that Bush-era NASA Administrator Michael Griffin "described as 'deeply flawed' the idea that the space exploration agency's priority should be outreach to Muslim countries. 'NASA ... represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other cultural entity.'"

    * 'Ravages of Islamism' Hostile to Science  National Review's Daniel Pipes writes, "Muslims at present do lag in the sciences and the way to fix this is not condescension from NASA but some deep Muslim introspection. Put differently, accomplished scientists of Muslim origin — including NASA’s Farouk El-Baz, who is of Egyptian origins — do exist. The problem lies in societies, and include everything from insufficient resources to poor education to the ravages of Islamism."

    * Waste of Tax Dollars  Reason's Michael Moynihan writes, "Poor dears, feeling bad about their underappreciated contributions to science, math, and engineering. Seems to me an entirely reasonable way to fritter away tax dollars, on the mental health of Yemeni undergraduates."

    * Explains Tolerance of Iran's Nuclear Program  Hot Air's Ed Morrissey makes the connection, "Hey, maybe that’s why Obama hasn’t taken the Iranian effort to build a nuclear bomb all that seriously until now. He just wanted Iran to make the Muslim world feel good about their achievements in science!"