NASA and muslims

Regarding NASA’s mission of outreach to muslim nations for the express purpose of giving them self esteem. Putting aside the fact that this should not be NASA‘s mission and that muslim contributions to science are scant, the reality is that Muslims do not lack self-esteem. In fact they are supremely confident of their superiority to kuffars. They are brazen enough to propose building a mosque near the site where muslims murdered 3000 Americans and don’t give a fig what we think. They are confident enough to demand to be given special privileges in western countries like sharia financing, footbaths in colleges and universities, demand no one consume pork in workplaces that employ muslims, demand prayer space in public schools and workplaces, demand they be given prayer breaks by their employers, carve out their own enclaves within western nations where non-muslims dare not enter, build mega-mosques with minarets and I could go on. Basically muslims in western countries are not here to be equal members of our societies but to dominate us. This is not the behavior of a people who lack self esteem. If anything, its western nations who could use a boost of self-esteem. We lack the pride and confidence to defend our own civilization, culture, values and way of life. We are terrified of demanding that immigrants assimilate lest we be called “racists” at best, at worst incur the violent wrath of these hostile invaders. So we here in the west let muslims walk all over us.

NASA's Muslim Outreach
By Mona Charen

It's not really surprising that President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden that his highest priority should be "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." It fits with so much that we already knew about the president.

It is consistent with his wildly exaggerated concept of governmental and presidential power and competence. Samuel Johnson wrote: "How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure." Obama believes the opposite -- that his presidency can be a transformative moment not just for the nation, but for the world. He will halt global warming and stop the rise of the oceans, transition America to a green energy future, prevent the "cycle of boom and bust" in the economy, provide universal health care while spending less than before, cushion "underwater" mortgage holders without rewarding profligate borrowers, increase taxes on the "rich" without harming the middle class, solve the problem of excessive public debt by amassing more public debt and so on.


How in the world would NASA help Muslim nations to "feel good" about themselves? Would NASA hold science fairs in Tripoli or Tehran? Produce and circulate propaganda films about Great Muslim Men (careful, never women) of Science? Stress our global debt to Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the father of algebra? (That's risky, since al-Khwarizmi reportedly learned his math from the Indians.) How would Obama's NASA chief undertake to alter the civilizational self-esteem of a billion people?

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