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2015-03-31 Arabia

Evil designs of Iranian regime should be exposed, say Saudi intellectuals

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Posted by Fred 2015-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1 Not that I disagree with the basic premise but, Saudi intellectuals?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-31 04:01|| 2015-03-31 04:01|| Front Page Top

#2 My take is it would be easier to agree if it was anyone but the Saudis saying this. (I mean, how many Iranian hijackers were there on 9-11?)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-03-31 07:28|| 2015-03-31 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 hahah grom exactly what i was thinking

that is an oxymoron right there

saudi intellectual

your honour, as evidence I present: Saudi's former top cleric Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz. Died 1999.

In 1966, when Ibn Baz was vice-president of the Islamic University of Medina, he wrote an article denouncing Riyadh University for teaching the "falsehood" that the earth rotates and orbits the sun".

From wikipedia:

In his 1966 article, ibn Baz did claim that the sun orbited the earth, and that "the earth is fixed and stable, spread out by God for mankind and made a bed and cradle for them, fixed down by mountains lest it shake".

As a result of the publication of his first article, ibn Baz was ridiculed by Egyptian journalists as an example of Saudi primitiveness, and King Faisal was reportedly so angered by the first article that he ordered the destruction of every unsold copy of the two papers that had published it.

In 1982 Ibn Baz published a book, Al-adilla al-naqliyya wa al-ḥissiyya ʿala imkān al-ṣuʾūd ila al-kawākib wa ʾala jarayān al-shams wa al-qamar wa sukūn al-arḍ ("Treatise on the textual and rational proofs of the rotation of the sun and the motionlessness of the earth and the possibility of ascension to other planets"). In it, he republished the 1966 article, together with a second article on the same subject written later in 1966, and repeated his belief that the sun orbited the earth.

In 1985, he changed his mind concerning the rotation of the earth when Prince Sultan bin Salman returned home after a week aboard the space shuttle Discovery to tell him that he had seen the earth rotate.

Posted by anon1 2015-03-31 11:22|| 2015-03-31 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Makes no difference, the earth doesn't move.

"But we Muslims also have ideas and brains...are you with me? Concentrate now..."

People like this are so blinded by faith and ignorance that they are impervious to argument - it's a waste of time.

Posted by KBK 2015-03-31 13:24|| 2015-03-31 13:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Impervious, I tell you.

Posted by KBK 2015-03-31 13:34|| 2015-03-31 13:34|| Front Page Top

#6 KBK, kinda like progressives hmmm?

Posted by AlanC 2015-03-31 14:47|| 2015-03-31 14:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Fight! Fight!

Posted by irishrageboy 2015-03-31 17:07|| 2015-03-31 17:07|| Front Page Top

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