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Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth
INN ^ | 2/17/2015, 10:36 AM | Tova Dvorin

Posted on 02/17/2015 2:43:13 PM PST by Olog-hai

The sun revolves around the Earth, a Saudi cleric insisted to a student panel Sunday—prompting a social media storm.

Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari told a student that the Earth is “stationary and does not move,” according to Al-Arabiya, justifying the statement with religious texts and statements.

But then he tried to debunk the common knowledge about the Earth’s rotation using “logic,” in a visual demonstration that prompted the speech to go viral.

“First of all, where are we now?” he asked. “We go to Sharjah airport to travel to China by plane, clear?!”

Khaibari argued, confusingly, that the Earth cannot rotate because it would render air travel impossible. …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: galileo; geocentrism; rop; saudiarabia
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To: cripplecreek
"By his logic, I should be able to jump straight up in the air and move a considerable distance."

And how an individual lands would depend on the shape of the individual.


41 posted on 02/17/2015 3:09:08 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Beowulf9

Actually that was a white house spokes idiot.


42 posted on 02/17/2015 3:09:21 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Beowulf9

State department spokes idiot. They all look the same to me.


43 posted on 02/17/2015 3:11:50 PM PST by Cold Heart
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44 posted on 02/17/2015 3:12:02 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Olog-hai

See, this is why we cannot give Muslims nice things.


45 posted on 02/17/2015 3:13:06 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Olog-hai

46 posted on 02/17/2015 3:14:22 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Olog-hai

So how would this affect the airspeed of an unladen swallow?


47 posted on 02/17/2015 3:15:00 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: mountainlion

Didn’t some mudslime leader get mad at NASA showing a picture of earth from outer space and say the picture was offensive to mudslimes
because the earth is round?


48 posted on 02/17/2015 3:17:32 PM PST by Chainsawj (I'm a 1 shot, 1 kill bringer of fate.)
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To: Olog-hai

This is why Muslims have a hard time with the NASA aptitude test.


49 posted on 02/17/2015 3:20:08 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Olog-hai
RETARD 3
50 posted on 02/17/2015 3:21:24 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: Olog-hai

So stupid he probably has someone count cadence to remind him to breathe.


51 posted on 02/17/2015 3:22:22 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Olog-hai
The Sun Revolves Around the Earth

'And the Earth revolves around me.'

52 posted on 02/17/2015 3:24:13 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: Olog-hai

Did Muslims also invent the internet? All Gore is gonna be pissed?

How about the combustible engine?

Flight?

The wheel? Maybe but only a few years ago.


53 posted on 02/17/2015 3:26:01 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: BigEdLB

Multi-generational incest and marriage among first cousins has a definite trickle down effect.


54 posted on 02/17/2015 3:26:12 PM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: OldNavyVet
What an idiot ... Earth's atmosphere is most definitely a part of Earth.

I'd save the intellectual power. Trying to point out what's wrong with this guy is going to significantly affect your IQ. Hell, it might cause a brain tumor.

55 posted on 02/17/2015 3:27:17 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: Ken H

I turned into a newt trying to figure out that question!...(but I got better!)


56 posted on 02/17/2015 3:29:55 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: Olog-hai

A little bit of NASA Muslim Outreach goes a long way.


57 posted on 02/17/2015 3:31:19 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Olog-hai

Literally, seventh century. They’re like cancer cells - develop too fast, retarded, reproduce rapidly,and malignant.


58 posted on 02/17/2015 3:34:07 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Olog-hai

Given all the inherent ignorance engendered by Islam, screwed up cosmology seems innocuous.


59 posted on 02/17/2015 3:35:25 PM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: Olog-hai

In his defense, all the islamic scum “teach” in their “schools” is memorization of Koran.


60 posted on 02/17/2015 3:39:45 PM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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