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| The Miracle of Islamic Science |
| 2005-07-13 |
| Severely EFL "...Westerners have long been credited with discoveries made many centuries before by Islamic scholars." I have to admit that I couldn't finish reading the article. I was struck with the similarities between the Islamic world view and Hitler's "Aryian Race" theories. |
| Posted by:Neutron Tom |
| #11 Suha, Heaven might be worse. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2005-07-13 21:55 |
| #10 Thermodynamics of Hell |
| Posted by: Suha 2005-07-13 16:59 |
| #9 Hogwash. The islamic mindset does not encourage scientific inquiry. When the library of alexandria in Egypt was encountered by the muslim caliph he asked, "what is this place"? When told of the thousands of volumes, he said "If the knowledge in them is true, then it is already in the Koran", If not, this it is unislamic. He then ordered the library burnt to the ground. A similar fate awaited the library of Patripali in India (created during the reign of the emperor Ashoka) when the muslims conquored it. They coated the buildings with naptha and set them alight. They burned for days. Muslim scientific advances mysteriously die out when they are stopped from further conquest. There is no more information to translate from Greek, Persian and Sanskrit. |
| Posted by: john 2005-07-13 16:37 |
| #8 Given, for the sake of argument, that Muslims did invent all these marvelous thingies, one has to ask why have they been sitting on their collective asses for the past 10 centuries? I mean, how long can it take to memorize the K''o'r'an? If I were Allan, I would be totally disappointed that my chosen people were such a lazy, murderous bunch. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2005-07-13 16:14 |
| #7 The very first mention of using Airliners in suicide attacks was by a Pakistani |
| Posted by: john 2005-07-13 16:02 |
| #6 Any mention on who invented car bombs? I'll give them credit for that one... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-07-13 15:56 |
| #5 Some authentic Islamic Science for your reading pleasure. The Jinn- A Scientific Analysis and this As a faculty member at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Hoodbhoy found himself challenging the establishment during the 1980s when he noticed some bizarre, indeed hilarious, ideas creeping into the domain of science. It was the era of Zia-ul-Haq. The erstwhile army general had banned freedom of expression and had set Pakistan on the road to Islam. Hoodbhoy says the period also witnessed an Islamisation of science that Pakistan had never seen before. Scientists began to write and discuss ‘scientific papers’ on such topics as the angle of God, the temperature of Hell, or the latent energy of jinns. One university professor of physics wrote a paper on the speed at which Heaven was departing from Earth. A nuclear reactor scientist argued that jinns were made up of methane gas and proposed that jinn energy may be tapped to meet Pakistan’s energy requirements. And more is coming... The Lowly State of Higher Education in Pakistan HEC has announced that the total number of PhD faculty in Pakistan is to be increased from the current 2000 to over 20,000 over ten years. Many of them will come from a HEC financed increase in local PhD production from the current 100-200 a year to 1000 annually, an increase by a factor of 5-10. This is another disaster in the making. The painful fact is that the near-collapse of secondary schools and colleges means few students are now capable of benefiting from a genuine PhD level education. And, there are few Pakistani institutions capable of supporting genuine PhD level research work. The evidence is not hard to find. In my department, advertised as the best physics department in the country, the average PhD student has trouble with high-school level physics and even with reading English. Nevertheless there are as many as 15 PhD students registered with one supervisor! In the QAU biology department, that number rises to an incredible 40 students for one supervisor. |
| Posted by: john 2005-07-13 15:35 |
| #4 "Computers were actually invented by a brilliant peasant from Minsk...." (oops, got my under-achieving, inferiority-complected cultures mixed up). |
| Posted by: Chutle Thravitle6782 2005-07-13 15:32 |
| #3 JFM will love this one - it refers so many times to the Spanish occupation that the mind reels. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-07-13 15:08 |
| #2 Bears a striking resemblence to what my daughter learned from her 8th Grade American History teacher about Africa. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-07-13 15:03 |
| #1 I have to admit I'm not even going to start reading an article based on such an obvious oxymoron. With the emphasis on the moron. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-13 15:00 |