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’1001 Muslim Inventions’ Fantasy Comes to DC: The Presentation of Legend as History
vinienco.com ^ | 8/26/2012 | J. Christian Adams

Posted on 08/26/2012 4:59:28 PM PDT by YankeeReb

National Geographic Explorer’s Hall in Washington D.C. has hosted some of the most prestigious exhibits in America. Previous exhibits have included the Chinese terracotta warriors, as well as the James Caird, the lifeboat Sir Ernest Shackleton miraculously sailed from Antarctica to South Georgia Island in 1916. Currently it is hosting a curious exhibit through February 2013 entitled “1001 Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization.” This high tech, slickly produced exhibit explicitly seeks to debunk the “myth” that the dark ages were dark.

The exhibit purports to provide examples of innovations from Muslim civilization, and some of the claims may come as a surprise to those familiar with the Wright Brothers or Yuri Gagarin.

I recently visited “1001 Inventions” which was housed on the same floor as a fantastic Titanic exhibit. I purchased entry to the museum at a ticket booth staffed by Rebecca Head, a National Geographic employee. Perhaps assuming I was heading to see the Titanic exhibit, Head pushed attendance at 1001 Inventions – “There is a really great exhibit on Muslim inventions you should see.”

The exhibit begins with star power – a short movie starring Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley. Kingsley plays a librarian who faces a trio of young uniformed (presumably British) students seeking information about “the dark ages.”

Kingsley’s character bristles at the children’s characterization, critical of those “filling your head with such nonsense and ripping down the good of former civilizations.”

But “everyone knows the Greeks and Romans invented everything!” one child replies.

Kingsley’s librarian doesn’t equivocate – “some of the most important discoveries” were made by “Muslim civilizations.”

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


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; History
KEYWORDS: discovery; godsgravesglyphs; jihad; longerperspectives; muslim; religionofpieces; science
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To: Venturer

“National geographic is usually pretty much based on fact, why would they display artistically developed fiction.”

Hahaha.

NG is a purveyor (think global warming) of lies wrapped in distortion surrounded by propaganda.


101 posted on 08/27/2012 8:19:51 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: svcw

Please do a websearch on Nestorians.


102 posted on 08/27/2012 8:22:47 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: umgud

WINNER!


103 posted on 08/27/2012 8:38:23 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Recall/ Impeachment Day, November 6, 2012. FUBO, same for RINOs)
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To: Venturer

NatGraph has been eaten up with the politicallycorrect for many years. They just do it with prettier pictures than most.


104 posted on 08/27/2012 10:45:48 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: null and void

??? who said anything about evil Joooooos? I believe they were there way before Muslims.


105 posted on 08/27/2012 3:11:21 PM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Condor51

Is Taj Mahal a Hindu Temple?

http://www.hermesonwings.com/travel/is-taj-mahal-a-hindu-temple/


106 posted on 08/27/2012 3:20:02 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks; Condor51

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CECCkLOsFWA

Taj Mahal: Was it a Vedic Temple? Photographic Evidence, by Stephen Knapp

(Some of the captions were a bit hard to read, link at the end to a site with more info.)


107 posted on 08/27/2012 7:55:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

Taj Mahal: Was it a Vedic Temple?

The Photographic Evidence

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm


108 posted on 08/27/2012 9:43:59 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks
The reason I posted it is the builder, Shah Jahan was a Muslim:
..the Taj Mahal was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage".
There's some nice Muslim Architecture is Spain too but the Taj Mahal beats everything. IIRC it's one of the 'Seven Wonders'.

I don't hate Muslims. I've worked with many nice people in Engineering and Commercial Construction (Hi-Rises) who were / are Muslims (from many countries). Never got screwed over once by them (42 years now). Unfortunately I can't say that about my fellow Christians or Jews (Or agnostics or atheists either) I've worked with or for as a sub-contractor.

109 posted on 08/28/2012 5:14:24 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: svcw

Exactly..they have no place in a modern world..USELESS


110 posted on 08/28/2012 7:27:43 AM PDT by sonic109 (The 1st Revolution was about taxes ..the 2nd one will be also)
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To: Slyfox

The true cause of the Florentine Reanaissance was the rediscovery of Plato and the adaptation of neo-platonism into the workings of the Vatican. His notions about hypothesis and higher hypothesis, wherein new discovery is encouraged to replace the old, was the foundation of scientific method and rigorous analytical thought. This led to the analysis of human sight (one of DaVincis still missing codices was on optics) and the creation of perspective drawing which allowed for accurate blueprints and the birth of the Industrial Revolution, which should be more properly termed the Industrial Renaissance.

Analytic thought also allowed the Italians and others to synthesize various technologies brought from China into far more useful forms. Chinese water clocks let to gear driven power transmission, lens grinding led to telescopes and microscopes, gunpowder led to firearms and industrial blasting, block print led to the printing press, and we can’t forget that won ton led to ravioli.

Any caste based feudal system will stifle invention as technology is considered suspect unless applied to war and domination, where it is rigidly controlled. In China, the Mandarin class kept China a technological backwater in spite of unlimited resources.

In Italy and Europe, the rise of merchants, importers and bankers began the work of breaking down class/caste barriers by the creation of an educated and productive bourgeoise. There was also the Vatican’s policy of founding universities and offering free education via the Brethren of the Common Life as a matter of neo-platonic idealism- the notion that an educated human being is a better human being who is closer to God and better able to create a more ideal society.

The eminent genius mathematician of the period, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, was the spark plug behind the work of Da Vinci, Bruneleschi, Mirandola, Alberti and many other investigators of nature and mind who were patronized by wealthy bankers and merchant dynasties most famously by the Medici family.


111 posted on 08/28/2012 10:51:03 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: Yollopoliuhqui
Sounds like you just finished reading Quentin Skinner's "The Foundations of Modern Political Thought" Volumes 1 and 2, like I just did.
112 posted on 08/28/2012 11:35:58 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Condor51

There are no records Shah Jahan built anything, and a lecture on religous tolerance I didn’t need. Tell it to the taliban.


113 posted on 08/28/2012 1:16:55 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: dead
Sounds like Texas 200 years ago, but they've advanced a tad since.

como?

114 posted on 08/28/2012 1:17:50 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: Fred Nerks
Sheesh, calm down.
Or do you have a Tasmanian Devil in your pocket?
115 posted on 08/29/2012 3:43:02 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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