[Eleutheria5]

The Greeks actually were the first to figure out that it was a sphere and calculate the circumference based on scientific observation. But Ptolemy erred in believing that it was a perfect sphere, and therefore underestimated the actual size.

But back to the Jive Turkeys and their made-up Islamic accomplishments. They have to make them up. They have no real ones.

[ConorMacNessa]

IIRC, Eratosthenes demonstrated the Earth was round and calculated the circumference based upon observations of the sun's apogee illuminating the depths of a well, approximately a millennium before the birth of Mohammed.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."

[beethovenfan]

Camel doots.

[goldstategop]

The astronauts were actually filmed in a secret studio in Istanbul.

Cuz Tayyip Recep Erdogan knows its a Muslim achievement.

The Americans made the moon landing all up.

[humblegunner]

Muslim scientists led by al-Khwarizmi convened by the order of the Caliph Al-Ma'mun and revealed that the Earth is a sphere

Much like the backside of a goat!

[Darksheare]

Obama has NASA complicit with this.
Their current focus is to make muzzies feel good about their accomplishments in space.
And this dovetails nicely with Barry big ears “everything Islam is superior” outlook.

[Brother Cracker]

Muslims discovered dentistry

[rjsimmon]

The Greeks actually were the first to figure out that it was a sphere

Not quite:

"He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth" Isaiah 40:22

[Telepathic Intruder]

It was Eratosthenes, actually, who correctly measured the circumference of the Earth in something like 220 BC, long before Mohammed lopped off his first head.

[ForYourChildren]

Haha.

Eratosthenes

“c. 276 BC[1] – c. 195/194 BC[2]) was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist.”

“He is best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by applying a measuring system using stades, or the length of stadia during that time period. His calculation was remarkably accurate.”

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

So, if he was the first person to calculate the circumference, for how long earlier was it commonly accepted that the earth is round.

[MeshugeMikey]

fact i..... that most muslims.... still dont get the round earth concept....

[fso301]

I thought the Babylonians believed the Earth to be round.

[PIF]

The pre-First Dynasty Chinese, the Jomaran Japanese, the Sumerians, the Phoneticians, the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom to name a few all knew the Earth was round.

It was only the Europeans, locked in the Dark Ages, who were willfully ignorant that the Earth is a sphere. Whatever knowledge they might have inherited from the Greeks, they burned.

Thousands of years before Christ was, various cultures were aware of the Earth’s shape. Minister Fikri is either behind on his history or, like the Europeans of the Dark Ages, willfully ignorant. Then again, maybe it is taqiyya for the muslim masses.

[Cyman]

Before or after they wiped and dipped with their left hand

[BuffaloJack]

> But back to the Jive Turkeys and their made-up Islamic accomplishments. They have to make them up. They have no real ones.

Well stated. All muslims ever did was enslave Greek and other European scientists and take credit for their work.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually he means that Muslims discovered the earth was round last week.

[isthisnickcool]

Which means most moslems pray in to space and not “towards” mecca.

[exit82]

Oh,goodie.

A new Internet meme. Turks say Muslim did amazing things.

Like the Chuck Norris jokes.

I’ll go first.

The Turks say that Muslims were the first to land on the moon.

[struggle]

>>The Greeks actually were the first to figure out that it was a sphere and calculate the circumference based on scientific observation.

Exactly - no Greek writer thought the earth was anything BUT round after 400 BC. That’s a THOUSAND YEARS before the advent of Islam, you know, the language that believed that Christ animated clay birds and that he ISN’T the final prophet but somehow shows up at the end of time.

[ExCTCitizen]

Islams discovered the world is round? When? The only thing I'll give Islam is the Arabic numbers.

Someone wrote that Islam discovered America. Sorry I'd believe America was discovered by space aliens before I believe Muzzies discovered America.

[Jumper]

Islam will be the last to embrace freedom for both its adherents and for the slaves they own.