Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Barack Obama - Historically disadvantaged?
Well, it sure seems that way.
It also seems that saying things that "sound good" are far more important than the facts.
Of course, that what salespeople do...
It also seems that saying things that "sound good" are far more important than the facts.
Of course, that what salespeople do...
At PajamasMedia.com, by Frank J. Tipler points out some of many errors:
"In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, President Barack Obama claimed: “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar University — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing.”
Obama is not much of a 'student of history' if he believes this. Almost every advance he attributes to the Muslims was due to someone else.
The non-Muslim Chinese invented the magnetic compass and printing (Gutenberg invented not printing, but movable type). The non-Muslim Hindu Indians invented algebra and the decimal numbering system. The non-Muslim European Christians invented the university.
I can’t address advances in medicine, but I have studied the history of astronomy and physics. The Muslims contributed nothing."
