[Our man in washington]

Now who should go to Mars? Let me think...

Mars is dry, like a big desert. What kind of people would be happy living in a desert? Also, what kind of people can't seem to handle the fact that other people on the planet are different than them?

Yep, raise that crescent flag over Mars. All yours, guys. No Christians, no Jews, and you can have your 14th century laws. I don't see a downside here.

[theFIRMbss]

>Yep, raise that crescent flag over Mars. All yours, guys.

How ironic, as
it was our space program that
convinced some Muslims

that we were living
in the End Times the Quran
prophesied about:

Sura 54 is entitled, "The Moon" and starts right away by giving us the news about the splitting of the moon as a sign of the end of the world. It is interesting to know that of all the available translations of the Quran , it was only Dr. Khalifa's translation that pointed to the fulfillment of this prophecy and pointed exactly to the mathematical miracle of the Quran and its relation to the splitting of the moon.

Let us focus on verse [54:1]: “The moon has split and the hour has drawn closer”

Here is Dr.Khalifa’s footnote on the verse is very interesting and enlightening: “ This important sign of the approaching end of the world came to pass in 1969 when humans landed on the moon and brought pieces of the moon to earth. At the same time, God’s mathematical Miracle was being gradually unveiled. Traditional Muslims opposed it, since it exposed the fallacy of their practices.”

[SPLITTING OF THE MOON, A MIRACLE OF QURAN]