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Former NASA Director Says Muslim Outreach Push 'Deeply Flawed'
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Posted on 07/06/2010 11:46:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Former NASA Director Says Muslim Outreach Push 'Deeply Flawed'

The former head of NASA on Tuesday described as "deeply flawed" the idea that the space exploration agency's priority should be outreach to Muslim countries, after current Administrator Charles Bolden made that assertion in an interview last month. fox news

The former head of NASA on Tuesday described as "deeply flawed" the idea that the space exploration agency's priority should be outreach to Muslim countries, after current Administrator Charles Bolden made that assertion in an interview last month.

"NASA ... represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other cultural entity," Michael Griffin, who served as NASA administrator during the latter half of the Bush administration, told FoxNews.com.

Bolden created a firestorm after telling Al Jazeera last month that President Obama told him before he took the job that he wanted him to do three things: inspire children to learn math and science, expand international relationships and "perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: charlesbolden; elections; finalfrontier; military; nasa; nasaislam; obama; palin; politics; space
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He sure stepped in it........
1 posted on 07/06/2010 11:46:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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2 posted on 07/06/2010 11:48:46 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: Sub-Driver

No, he lives in it.


3 posted on 07/06/2010 11:49:27 AM PDT by JPG (Mr. Gore, or is it Mr. Stone or Mr. Woody? Whatever, you're under arrest.)
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What a steaming pantload. NASA has nothing to do with Muslim “outreach”.

FUBO

4 posted on 07/06/2010 11:50:44 AM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy is an embarrassment. Only a Muslim could even think of relating NASA to Muslims. Gawd how much longer with this usurper hold the office of President of the United States.


5 posted on 07/06/2010 11:52:10 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Obama: A government to shove the people, deny the people, and ignore the people)
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“NASA ... represents the best of America.”

NASA represents a gvt bureaucracy, only one involving space.


6 posted on 07/06/2010 11:52:19 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: Sub-Driver

HANG ON A SECOND FOLKS!!!!!!!

HOLD YOUR FIRE!!!!

It is a well know fact that most Muslim’s heads are filled with space - empty space.

Give that NASA’s main mission is space exploration, then an outreach to Muslims might well be within their mission scope.


7 posted on 07/06/2010 11:52:39 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy is an embarrassment. Only a Muslim could even think of relating NASA to Muslims. Gawd how much longer will this usurper hold the office of President of the United States.


8 posted on 07/06/2010 11:52:45 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Obama: A government to shove the people, deny the people, and ignore the people)
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Obama an undercover agent for al-Qaeda (a.k.a. al-Qaida, al-Qa’ida)? He won’t secure or protect our border with Mexico....Obama orders dance classes, movie nights and bingo for illegal aliens, he is suing Arizona for Federal Law that he won’t enforce, Missouri has had and enforces these same laws....why is Obama not suing them? Something is mighty wrong with this picture.....the Muslim in our White House seems intent on getting rid of Americans.


9 posted on 07/06/2010 11:54:06 AM PDT by yoe ("N" is for NO for Progressives in government.)
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I guess that NASA will now open relations with the Vatican and also reach out to Israel. Ya think? Can anyone name something that the muslims have contributed, in a positive sense, to society?


10 posted on 07/06/2010 11:54:56 AM PDT by RC2
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Didn’t any of y’all watch Battlestar Galactica in the 1970s? “There may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens?” Well, here’s the reality: the Klingons are the brothers of our very own earthly Muslims. A NASA outreach to Muslims now may prevent a devestating war with a technologically superior Klingon empire in another century or so. As such, it’s perfectly sound interstellar policy, and under the jurisdiction of NASA.

I mean, come on. Think ahead. All hail the Obamamessiah.


11 posted on 07/06/2010 11:56:08 AM PDT by Yet_Again
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Coming soon, the ISS Sharia Law, looking for infidel alien races to behead and blow up.


12 posted on 07/06/2010 11:57:08 AM PDT by Hexenhammer (sic semper tyrannis)
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What's the uproar about? I'm all for sending as many Muslims into space as we can. They'd love the moon. Women have to wear a full burqa there, so to speak. And if they take it off, well the punishment is more swift and final than any from some Sharia court. The landscape is much like the Mid East too.
13 posted on 07/06/2010 11:58:26 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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Obammy is a MooSLIM!
14 posted on 07/06/2010 11:59:12 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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I think NASA SHOULD be used as a form of outreach to Muslim countries...

A space station with a weapons platform containing nuclear-tipped missiles is an excellent outreach program.


15 posted on 07/06/2010 11:59:59 AM PDT by moovova
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So we’ll reach out our hand to the clenched fist and guarantee that space will be weaponized. Smooth move. Metallurgic technology was turned into scimitars, “vests” have been turned into bombs, commercial planes turned into guided missiles, soon we’ll see crude orbital rockets cobbled together to create EMP bombs overhead. Nothing good will come from this “outreach” to the 14th century minds bent on the destruction of their supposed “Great Satan”. I think sheep should have an outreach program for the wolves - see if that works. Take care of your sheepdogs!


16 posted on 07/06/2010 12:01:42 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Sub-Driver
Mecca meets 2001 A Space Odyssey


17 posted on 07/06/2010 12:03:29 PM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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Obviously, we have a muslim in the WH. Not that it is a crime, but he hasn't been honest about his religious affiliation. Of course, the lack of honesty part is par for the course for this jerk.
18 posted on 07/06/2010 12:04:22 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (ClimateScandal.org)
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“Obama told him before he took the job that he wanted him to do three things: inspire children to learn math and science, expand international relationships and “perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.”

So apparently, space exploration/scientific research didn’t make the list.


19 posted on 07/06/2010 12:07:39 PM PDT by drierice
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If the Muslim scum put even a hairline scratch on the foundational stones of even one of the great Western Catholic Cathedrals, their gaudy shoebox should be immediately vaporized by the USAF.


20 posted on 07/06/2010 12:09:11 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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