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.”
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Israel is not the same place, way smaller, and their people are not the same as arabs. Jews spread out, travelled and were exposed to a lot more of the world.
good one
I join SunkenCiv in thanking you...very valuable info there.
Same reason “Sir” Ben did: $$$$$$$$$$$$.
In fact, it is the word for cow and it was invented by Louis Pasteur, where they would take the scabs of people who had cowpox and stuff them in other people's noses to give them lifelong immunity to smallpox.
Vaca = cow, vaccination comes from that.
(Joke credit: isthisnickcool)
That sounds a whole lot like Romney's "gaffe" in Israel.
And they will hide under your bed with a curved dagger in their teeth and a bejeweled turban on their head and come out in the night and eat you all up!
To the point.
Why is that?
-—and I wonder if Axelrod wrote the script. I kept waiting for the part where Obama says he approves this message.
I’ll give them the Taj Mahal of Agra and that’s about it.
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After they invented everything and ran out of stuff to invent, they’re just kickin’ back.
National Geographic and Smithsonian have been tools of the left for quite some time. I finally canceled my 25-year-long subscriptions about five years ago.
They have been infiltrated and need to be taken back by conservatives before I’ll give them another dime of subscription money.
I snort in their general direction.
It seems pretty obvious that when the Muslim conquests ended (and the enormous flow of wealth, Christian slaves, etc.) so did the era of Muslim “brilliance”.
Islam creates ignorance, poverty and destruction.
Yep. And once the evil Jooooooooos showed up and demonstrated that it was indeed possible to live a life of peace and abundance in the desert the muslims immediately responded by adapting their ways and becoming comfortable, industrious and peaceful.
Oh wait.
On the Spanish Inquisition:
After 700 years of islamic domination, the only ruling model the Spaniards had any real experience with was sharia law, with massive day to day brutality against any minor transgression being regarded as normal, proper and in obedience to their pig god’s law.
The Spanish Inquisition was built on the ashes and rubble of islam. It couldn’t help but absorb some of the preceding practices.
The tortures that islam enthusiastically embraced as wholesome family fun, and indeed, still embrace at places like Chop-Chop Plaza in Riyadh, that the Inquisition briefly held have since been viewed as a horrible anomaly in Christian history.
We are ashamed of what Christians briefly did after 700 years of muslim oppression.
muslims are not only proud of sharia law, but think it would be simply wonderful if they could impose it on the whole world.
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