Posted on 06/07/2009 1:55:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Student of history, Barack Obama, spoke to the Muslim World this week. During his speech Obama congratulated the Muslim World for their many accomplishments. Obama’s Cairo Speech - The Transcript:
"As a student of history, I also know civilisation’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality."
Unfortunately, Dear Leader was once again repeating Far Left talking points and not facts. Here is what he forgot to mention:
** The compass- The use of a magnetic compass as a direction finder occurred sometime before 1044, but incontestable evidence for the use of the compass as a navigational device did not appear until 1119 in China. The earliest reference to an iron fish-like compass in the Islamic world occurs in a Persian talebook from 1232- Wikipedia.
** The pen- Ancient Egyptians developed writing on papyrus scrolls when scribes used thin reed brushes or reed pens. The quill pen was used in Qumran, Judea to write some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and then introduced into Europe by around 700 AD before the founding of Islam. Ma'ād al-Mu'izz, the Fatimid Caliph of Egypt, was provided a fountain pen 250 years later- Wikipedia.
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what a dork....similar claims for blacks inventing stuff only to have the evil white man steal it,,,,just read No9t out of Africa
What is NEVER said by the Muslim/liberals/western-haters in the MSM is that while Islam MAINTAINED knowledge through those years, there was no NEW knowledge gained BY the Muslim culture or “universities” during that period. They were static, freezing knowledge rather than advancing anything.
Algebra and the zero? TRANSMITTED through Islamic lands FROM the Hindus. Neither was “original” to Islam.
Most apt picture.
Well, we can’t let facts get in the way of the soaring rhetoric can we? Can’t let facts interfere with his storyline, can we?
Your are right, he is the number-one Flunkee.
0bowdown actually believes all this ridiculous propaganda about Islam. He actually has a lot of nerve to slam Ahmadingyjob about holocaust denial when his examples are cut from the same ignorant revisionist cloth.
Excellent! We now have another name for him. Sifr al-0bama.
LOL! Good one.
Yep, you never know. The word ciphon comes from sifr, and 0bama does ciphon up our tax dollars....
Islam gives us nothing but trouble now and now is what counts. Obama’s speech was full of lies.
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