Posted on 05/29/2011 4:50:32 AM PDT by Cronos
In a fresh outreach bid by the Obama administration to the Muslim world, US Secretary of State has launched an exhibition on achievements of the Muslim civilization through ages.
The 1001 Inventions “honors the remarkable accomplishments of Muslims throughout history,” Clinton said in her pre-recorded message posted on the State Department’s website.
The exhibition, which has attracted more than one million over the past year, is set to open Friday, May 27, at the California Science Center in Los Angeles for a seven-month run.
Clinton said the exhibition is aiming at “celebrating a millennium of science and innovation in the Muslim world.”
The “Muslim world has a proud history of innovators,” Clinton said, citing the achievements of prominent Muslim figures like Fatima Al-Fihri who founded the world’s first modern university in the ninth century.
She also praised 13th century mechanical engineer Al-Jazari whose theories on crank mechanisms were helpful in driving every plane, train and automobile in the world nowadays.
Clinton also cited Iraqi physician Ali Ibn Nafi who is also credited for inventing the diagram of the human circulatory system in 1242 CE and being the first to have accurately described the part of the cardiovascular system involving the heart and lungs.
Originally funded by the British government and launched in the United Kingdom in 2006, the “1001 Inventions” exhibition is on a five-year global tour, which has already taken it to London, Istanbul and New York.
The “1001 Inventions” exhibition highlights contributions by Muslim scholars to the development of astronomy, math, architecture, medicine and engineering.
It features exhibits spanning Muslin thinkers in different fields of medicine, optics, mathematics, astronomy, higher education, library science, personal hygiene and even the basics of aviation.
It also shows the works of some of history’s finest scientists and scholars who once extended from Spain to China and lightened the world from the seventh century.
For example, at the 13th-century observatory in Maragha, Iran, astrologists developed new models for understanding the universe which helped pave the way for Copernicus’ ideas of a sun-centered solar system in 1543.
Organizers say the exhibition’s new tour aims to show the world the contributions of the Golden Age of Muslim Civilizations in different fields of science.
“We’re honored that Secretary Clinton agreed to launch our exhibition here at one of the most prestigious science museums in the world,” Salim Al-Hassani, Chairman of 1001 Inventions, said in a press release.
“The goal of 1001 Inventions is to highlight the astounding contribution that Muslim civilization has made in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and how those advances still affect our lives today.”
Hassani said the massive turnout at the exhibition reflects a growing interest in the Islamic civilization and its achievements throughout history.
“More than a million people have already visited the 1001 Inventions exhibition during the first year of its global tour and that is the greatest endorsement we could ever hope for,” he added.
The exhibition was recently awarded the “Best Touring Exhibition” of the year at the annual Museums and Heritage Excellence Awards in London, widely considered as the “Oscars” of the Museum world.
The United States is home to an estimated Muslim minority of nearly eight million.
8 million???
Sorry, that last bit didn’t make sense — where did they get the number of 8 million Moslems in America??? That’s nearly 3% of the population!
And what ever happened to separation of church and state??
This is what Jefferson was talking about....
Just more proof that Obama is a Muslim.
Interesting that the article doesn’t describe any Muslim inventions since the 16th century. What have they done for us lately? (Not much, I’m guessing, although I’m willing to be proven wrong.)
Oh, for a new solidly right-wing administration.
Non-sodomite, non-PC and a government shod of all unnecessary departments.
I would be interested in any “Moslem invention” — I may be prejudiced but I don’t think they have invented anything. All the so called Moslem stuff was from the Indian, Greek and Persian or Syriac civilisations they conquered.
More nonsense to make Arabs/Muslims feel less inferior. Sorry, Hillary, it won’t fly. They’re nothing more than a bunch of envious fanatical savages. If we didn’t buy their oil, which we found and developed by the way, they’d have nothing. They’d produce nothing. They’d continue to live in squalor and hate the world. The world will continue to pass them by since they prefer to follow a cult that promotes living in the ninth century. Talk about stupid.
they have contriubuted considerably to research about how to use terrorism against unarmed civilian populations
the boxcutter, boombox bomb, ink cartridge bomb, shoe bomb, baby bottle bomb, dog bomb, boob implant bomb, and underpants bomb deserve their own exhibits in a future museum
IF Islamists had accomplished so much, they would have not only advanced scientifically in human history, but a social advancement would naturally follow.
They are not socially advanced because they never accomplished scientifically what is claimed.
We and other advanced cultures claim social superiority (yes, I DID say that ... FU PCers !!), because we have a history of scientific advancemets that just flat out swelled our heads .. and our hearts for being AMERICAN.
We don't and didn't need to force anything on anyone .. we .. just ... are ... better !!!
The sociopath of state and the mideastern klansmen have done and will continue to do damage to individual liberty that is incalculable.
And then they forgot...
1. Neat mechanical gadget used in Saudi Arabia to slowly remove fingernails.
2. Special skin glue used to close buttocks of homosexuals in Iran
And does the modified plastic shredder previously used by Saddam Husain to grind up people count?
So next there will be an exhibition honoring Christianity and Bhuddism, too, right?
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
Don’t you know? They invented Abraham, who they claim was “the father of the hajj”.
No joke.
And they invented islam, the Original Lie.
FEARA NOT, AMERICA! Oh, did you see?
The blessed message in Joplin, Mo. A church completely wasted. The cross still standing straight and true! Loud and clear, above the storm, amid the rubble, our Lord Jesus Christ proclaims that He will prevail!
Hallelujah! Sweet promise out of misery, death and destruction! , made of tempered steel and placed upon the rock it did endure! To see it during the Memorial Service in Joplin . this morning amid prayers, and the ringing notes of our national anthem! How can any deny Him? We may not see Him but The Faithful Living Christ will not be silenced! Praise God!
Is this the official Oxymoron of the Day thread?
Even if the Muslims have come up with great things what have they ever done with them? Most of them are still squatting in mud huts on top of their own dungheaps.
Prosperous Muslims have only become prosperous because fate landed them over oil deposits, not by their own merit.
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