July 5, 2010
NASA to boost Muslim self-esteem?
This is a truly remarkable video found at Powerline of NASA administrator Charles Bolden telling al-Jazeera that NASA is now tasked "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering."The agency that sent a man to the moon has been enlisted to improve the self-esteem of Muslims. The steely-eyed missile men who launched a 37 story rocket generating 7 million pounds of thrust to the moon are going to become multi-cultural ambassadors in order to make the Muslim world feel like their contributions to science were responsible for American triumphs in space.I don't mean to be culturally insensitive but which Muslim (Arab) assisted Isaac Newton in writing his seminal work on gravity "The Principia?" Or perhaps helped Einstein get over the rough spots in writing his General Theory of Relativity?" Or helped Max Born and...(Read Full Post)