1001 Islamic Inventions 1001 Islamic Inventions ?? According to conventional wisdom Islam was a civilized and enlightened creed during the Dark Ages, while the Christian world was wallowing in depravity and ignorance. Islam was, therefore, the guardian and savior of all ancient science, knowledge and wisdom. But that is not true in the slightest. Islam took over many highly educated and highly advanced regions of the Byzantine Empire, at the point of the sword, and forced whole populations to convert to Islam. There were many sects in those times, just like the Alawi, Alevi, Ahmadiyya, Sui, Druze and Ishmailis of the modern era, who adopted a cloak of Islam to avoid persecution and death. Those who refused to change their beliefs were forced to live as dhimmis - they were effectively reduced to serfdom in their own lands. The Jewish, Christian and Sabaean dhimmis of the East did the work and paid the taxes, while their Muslim overlords ran the administration and army, and lived in comparative luxury. This is how dhimmi unbelievers have to live in a Muslim controlled society, as the long-suffering Christians of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey fully understand. Christians don’t bother complaining that their Muslim neighbour has wronged them, because the social and legal system will not help them in the slightest. Even in supposedly modern and Westernised Turkey, a friend of many years whispered that he was not really Muslim but had to say that he was to keep his job. He made me swear not to tell anyone, that his family had been secret Christians for generations. So the lands of the East were not majority Muslim at all, during the Dark and Middle Ages. In fact many regions, like Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Anatolia, were not majority Muslim until comparatively recently. They were controlled and oppressed by Muslim overlords, that is for sure, but none of these lands were majority Muslim. Furthermore, because Muslim education concentrates on religious studies, and because most Muslims spoke Arabic, Eastern academia was largely run by Syriac Christians. The language of science was Greek while the lingua franca of the East was Aramaic; and 1 1001 Islamic Inventions the only people who spoke Greek, Aramaic and Arabic were the Syriac Christians. In addition, most of science is haram to Muslims. The Koran is sacrosanct and inviolable, and yet the Koran teaches that the Sun orbits the Earth and sinks into a muddy pool over the horizon; so strict adherents to Islam were never going to make good freethinking scientists. Thus time and time again, if we look at the lives of supposed Muslim scientists and inventors, it will be seen that they were actually making their discoveries and advances despite Islam, not because of it. Omar Khayyam, for instance, the great Muslim mathematician and poet, was actually a Sui Agnostic: From his youth to his death Khayyam remained a materialist, a pessimist, and an Agnostic. Khayyam looked at all religions questions with a skeptical eye, and hated the fanaticism, narrow-mindedness, and the spirit of vengeance of the mullahs. 1 And Khayyam himself once said: We are the victims of an age when men of science are discredited, and only a few remain who are capable of engaging in scientiic research. Our philosophers spend all their time in mixing true with false and are interested in nothing but outward show; such little learning as they have they extend on material ends. When they see a man sincere and unremitting in his search for the truth, one who will have nothing to do with falsehood and pretence, they mock and despise him. 2 In Khayyam’s day, to challenge the veracity of the Koran and to deny many of its core teachings was a deadly path to tread. The punishment for Islamic apostasy was death - just as it still is today. Which is probably why Khayyam’s advice was to live life one day at a time, in case the Dark Force caught up with you; and so he invariably settled down to enjoy his women and wine. Like Galileo and his disputes with the Catholic Church, Khayyam advanced the cause of science, knowledge and 2 Fig 1. Omar Khayyam: mathematician, poet and Sui mystic, and not a Muslim. 1001 Islamic Inventions understanding despite Islam, not because of it. Nevertheless, despite the well-known vacuous nature of Islamic science, an enterprising exhibition has been touring the museums of the world, promoting the virtues of Islamic inventions. It is called 1,001 Islamic Inventions and has been put together by Abdul Latif Jameel, a Saudi Arabian car importer, and it seeks to extol the remarkable and indispensable contribution that Islamic inventions have made to civilisation and to the betterment of mankind. The tour’s website is keen to note the many endorsements and praise given by the sycophantic Western media, especially the UK’s leftleaning Independent newspaper. Yet these enthusiastic endorsements by seemingly knowledgeable media outlets will obviously inluence the foolish and the ignorant, which is why we see the likes of the president of the USA aping these claims as if they were proven fact. Obama said in his 2009 Cairo speech: As a student of history, I also know civilisation’s debt to Islam ... It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra, the magnetic compass and tools of navigation. Our mastery of pens and printing, or understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic architecture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires, timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. 3 Vid 1. The speech by President Obama in Cairo, in June 2009, praising Muslim inventiveness. (Please see the tablet book for the video.) But Obama is a particularly biased student of history, just as one might 3 1001 Islamic Inventions expect, and so we ind that the reality of Islam is very different. The magnetic compass was actually discovered by the Chinese, who had been playing with magnets since the 4th century BC, as, indeed, had Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD. We know that the Chinese were using the magnetic compass for navigation by the 12th century AD, if not before, more than a century before the lands of Islam borrowed the device. And as to Islam giving us timeless poetry and cherished music, we should not forget that Muhummad himself had a loathing of poets and bells, and put many poets to death for the satirical verses they created. The rollcall of the Dead Poet’s Society, poets that Muhummad himself ordered to be murdered, include Al Nadr bin al Harith, Uqbah bin Abu Muayt, Asma bint Marwan, Kab bin al Ashraf, and a poor one-eyed Bedouin who happened to sing the wrong song to the wrong people. 4 1001 Islamic Inventions. But if Obama has erred in his assertions, and we shall see more evidence of this shortly, then the fawning Independent newspaper has penned a real howler. The Independent has printed an article that heaped praise upon the 1001 Islamic Inventions exhibition. But even a cursory glance at the exhibits in this touring extravaganza should have revealed an unbelievable number of halftruths, misrepresentations and downright lies, that this hopeless newspaper failed to uncover, or at least failed to inform its readers about. And how eminent institutions like the London Science Museum could display such overt deception as being historical fact is anyone’s guess. One presumes that the museum’s parsimonious hands were greased by liberal amounts of Saudi gold, and so the curators held their collective noses and praised this wonderful exhibition - especially as they could exclaim that it was all done in the spirit of multiculturalism. But this should be seen as a clear illustration and a grave warning of the inluence that liberal dollops of Islamic money can have over the Western media, Western educationalists and especially Western politicians: for there are many quislings out there who would seek to inluence the West merely for personal inancial gain. The following examples of the exhibits on display at this exhibition, and the numbering system utilized here, come from the fawning and totally uncritical article that was printed in the Independent newspaper. 5 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html 4 1001 Islamic Inventions 1. Coffee. Rather than being a Muslim beverage, the irst usage of coffee as a stimulant drink is thought to have been Ethiopian. And yet Ethiopia is a majority Christian nation, and has been ever since the 4th century, many centuries before Islam was invented. The mythology from the region suggests that coffee originated in Kaffa province in either the 4th of the 9th centuries AD, and the province donated its name to the beverage. And while the legend of Kaldi may be fanciful and apocryphal, it is known that all of the arabica coffee plants around the world originated from this very same region. 2. Photography. The Independent newspaper said that the term camera obscura comes from the Arabic qamara referring to a dark room. But this is complete nonsense. In reality, the phrase comes directly from the Latin, where a ‘dark room’ is called a camera obscura. The word camera is the Latin for an arched or vaulted ceiling, from which we also derive the German kammer and the English ‘chamber’. The reason for adopting this name, is that early camera obsuras were not small boxes for family entertainment; instead the scientists and magicians of the era made a projection into a small darkened room, with the inverted image being formed on the rear wall, to amaze the aristocracy and royalty. The Chinese philosopher Mozi knew about the camera obscura in the 5th century BC, as did the Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC. In addition, it has been suggested in the book Jesus of Edessa, that the apparition of a small boy that Simon Magus created, as is narrated in the Clementine Recognitions, was also a irst-hand account of a 1st century camera obscura. And Simon Magus, as readers will recall, was the primary disciple of John the Baptist. And not only did 1st century Judaeans know and write about the camera obscura, but so too will any late risers in a decrepit Mediterranean bedroom (you need very bright sunlight outside to see the effect). I remember lying in a pension (a very cheap hotel) and seeing all the people and trafic in the town square, walking and driving across my bedroom ceiling in a dazzling display that closely resembled the image from a modern LCD projector. This very ancient version of a cinema screen was actually caused by the pension’s threadbare curtains creating a whole series of pinhole cameras (camera obscuras), projecting tens of interconnected images of the street below onto the ceiling of the bedroom, thereby creating a complete panoramic scene. Such chance events must have been noted by tens of thousands of people throughout all ages and eras, and it would not take much common sense and intelligence to recreate this amazing effect and amaze your family and friends. 3. Chess. 5 1001 Islamic Inventions Rather than being Islamic, chess originated in India and was perfected in Persia, and predates Islam by a considerable margin. The inal exclamation in chess, that of ‘check mate’ is said to be derived from the Persian shah mat meaning ‘the king is dead’. But even that is not the true origin, for many of these ancient languages are interdependent and derived originally from much more Fig 2. ancient sources. Thus the true origin An Egyptian game of senet, from the of this phrase was probably from the New Kingdom era. No rules for the Egyptian sah mut , *2 game have been discovered, but it meaning ‘the prince is dead’, which appears to be like a cross between halma became the Hebrew sahren moot twm and draughts. Nro, the Persian shah mat, the Latin cae-sar mort, or even the Franco-English sire mort (sire meaning ‘king’, and mort as in mortuary). 4. Flight. The irst kites were actually invented in China as far back as the 8th century BC. The irst written account is of the Chinese General Han Hsin of the Han Dynasty, who used a kite to measure the distance to the walls of a fortiication in the 2nd century BC. The general was trying to determine the distance his undermining tunnel needed to travel, to reach the fortiication’s wall. From China, the knowledge of kite lying moved to India, where the sport of kite ighting was developed. And it was from Mogul India that the kite eventually arrived in the Islamic Middle East. 5. Soap. Rather than being a Muslim invention, soap was recorded in Babylonian texts going back as far as the third millennium BC. Soap was also used extensively in ancient Egypt, the early Roman Empire and even as far north as Gaul. In fact, the word ‘soap’ comes from the Latin sapo, which was mentioned in Pliny the Elder’s 1st century Historia Naturalis. *2 The Egyptian Sah was Orion, the king of the constellations in the heavens, which is why this word now means ‘king’ in so many languages, including ‘sire’ in old English. The Egyptian Maat was the goddess of truth and law, but since she was also the judge of the dead she became associated with death, which is why the Latin for death became mort. 6 1001 Islamic Inventions 6. Distillation. One might initially wonder why a good Muslim would be inventing an alcohol distillation apparatus. Anyway, even if Jabir ibn Hayyan was indeed fond of his strong liquor, the process was not invented by him, for distillation was well known to the Greeks, and the 4th century BC philosopher Aristotle says of distillation: Salt water when it turns into vapour Fig 3. becomes sweet, and the vapour does A working distillation apparatus, not form salt water when it condenses by Zozimos of the 3rd century again. This I know by experiment. The AD. same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all luids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modiied by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their lavour. But this subject must be considered on another more suitable occasion. 6 Aristotle not only knew of distillation, and mentions it in respect of wine, he also realised that rivers came from rain and that rain came from the evaporation of the sea (which is why the sea does not get ever more full from river low). Although his explanation, that fresh water is lighter than salt water and will therefore evaporate more easily, is slightly wide of the mark, the resulting principle of distillation is solid. Moving on a few centuries, the 3rd century alchemist Zozimos of Panipolis drew a very good diagram of a working still (ig 3), and this was a long before Islam was invented. 7. Crankshaft. Rather than being invented by al-Jazari in the 13th century AD, the Romans were very familiar with the crankshaft in all its many guises and uses. The Fig 4. A very well crafted Roman crankshaft from the 2nd century AD, demonstrating Roman familiarity with the crankshaft long before Islam was invented. It is likely that this device was made for hoisting up a rope, that coiled around the center section. 7 1001 Islamic Inventions Roman sawmills at Hierapolis, Gerasa, and Ephesus, all had crankshafts that turned the rotary motion of the water-wheel into the linear motion of the saw, and these date from the 3rd century AD, long before Islam was invented. Al-Jazari is also said to have been the ‘father of robotics’, which is a rather peculiar assertion as any decent historian (not something the Independent newspaper would employ) would know that this attribute was irst given to the 1st century Greco-Egyptian inventor, Hero of Alexandria. Fig 5. The Qasr Ibn Warden Byzantine church just south west of Aleppo, which used subtly pointed arches. 9. The pointed, Gothic arch. While the pointed arch does appear to have been discovered and used in the Near East, its invention predates Islam. The irst pointed arch is recognised to be from the Qasr Ibn Warden, a Christian church in Syria which used very subtly pointed arches, and it was this prototype which was taken and developed into the fully pointed ogive arch of many mosques and the European Gothic cathedrals.7 And in a tragic twist of history, the Qasr Ibn Warden church resides in one of the many Dead Cities of Aleppo, the hundreds of towns and cities that were destroyed and 8 Fig 6. A complete set of surgical instruments, dating from the 2nd century BC, at the Egyptian Temple of Kom Ombo. 1001 Islamic Inventions Fig 7. The incredible 3rd century AD arch in the Deyrulzafran Monastery, in Mardin. This arch has been made so lat it looks like a modern concrete roof, but it is actually an arch. abandoned as Islam spread death and destruction through Christian Syria. In other words, Islam only inherited the pointed arch through the genocide of Christian Syria. How apposite of this nihilistic creed. Another example of a non-semicircular arch devised long before Islam was invented, is to be seen at the Deyrulzafran Monastery in Mardin, eastern Turkey. Here, the enterprising architect has managed to construct an arch that is so shallow it is actually completely lat. The image in ig 7 may look like a modern concrete ceiling, but it is in fact a 3rd century arch made from thirteen rows of wedge-shaped stones. 10. Surgical Instruments. The claim that al-Zahrawi invented modern surgical instruments in the 10th century AD is utterly preposterous. Undoubtedly the Chinese had many such instruments, but just as one very obvious earlier example, the adjacent image is of an entire surgeon’s instrument table, from the Temple of Kom Ombo in Egypt (8.34). This temple was constructed in the Ptolemaic era of the 2nd century BC, and so predates the invention of Islam by a considerable margin. 9 Fig 8. A windmill designed by Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD. 1001 Islamic Inventions 11. The windmill. Rather than being invented in the seventh century for an Islamic caliph, the principle of the windmill has been known about for millennia. See the diagram of a windmill by Hero of Alexandria, designed in the 1st century AD (ig 8). This is a good example because it is a useful machine, using the wind to drive a pump to play an organ. Note that the pump is activated by a cam, rather than a crankshaft, which is an interesting alternative solution to the rotational-to-linear motion problem. 12. Inoculation. The continual championing of Islamic medicine appears to be part of a concerted effort to denigrate the West for being dirty and unhygienic, because the Koran speciied cleanliness after sex and before prayer. But it should be pointed out that the Asclepeion on Kos in Greece was the largest hospital in the ancient world, dating from 400 BC and capable of treating dozens if not hundreds of patients. They appear to have not simply dispensed herbs and potions as cures at the Asclepeion, but to have undertaken complex surgery too. In regards to inoculation, rather than this being a 17th century Islamic invention, the Chinese book Tou Chen Hsin Fa had already described this procedure in the 16th century. There are additional reports of inoculation being used in India as far back as 1000 BC, but these remain unconirmed. 14. Numbers. They may be called Arabic numerals, but rather than being Islamic, or even Arabic, the Arabic and Western numbering systems were based upon the Brahmic numerals from India, which date from the 3rd century BC. This Indian system was adopted and modiied into the 3rd century AD Bakhshali number system, which included the zero point. And although Algebra may similarly have an Arabic name, it was the 7th century Indian mathematician Brahmagupta who wrote the Brahmasphutasiddhanta, an exposition of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, that included the irst real usage of the number zero. This, together with the undoubted contribution to the ield of geometry by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, predates the majority of Islamic claims to be the founders of mathematics and algebra. 16. Carpets. How anyone can say that carpets were an Islamic invention is beyond comprehension. This is as good an example as any, of the misinformation that we in the West are being deliberately fed in order to foster the expansionist 10 1001 Islamic Inventions aims of Islam. As just one of many such examples, the image in ig 9 is of the Pazyryk Carpet from the Pazyryk burial mound in Siberia, and it dates from the 5th century BC. Not only is this a true pile carpet, but it is a very intricate carpet, which demonstrates that this manufacturing technique had already had a long and illustrious history prior to this time. Fig 9. The Pazyryk Carpet, a 5th century BC pile carpet from the Pazyryk burial mound in Siberia. 18. The spherical earth. Again, it is a gross and highly irresponsible distortion of historical reality to claim that Islam discovered the spherical Earth. Even within classical history it is well understood that the ancient Greeks knew the Earth to be spherical. Not only that, but Eratosthenes calculated the Earth’s circumference in the 3rd century BC, long before Islam was invented, and he nearly got the right answer too. And if one wishes to speculate on the more esoteric and occult knowledge of the Earth, it is apparent from masonic teachings that the spherical Earth was known in the era of King Solomon, in the 10th century BC (see the image on the next page). Likewise, the Great Pyramid happens to measure one half of a nautical mile around the base, and simultaneously lie upon the 30th degree parallel north. Since the nautical mile measurement system is based upon the circumference of the Earth, as is the system of latitudes and longitudes, it is quite apparent that the pyramid’s architect understood the spherical form and dimensions of the Earth. And since the majority of pyramids are based upon mathematical formulae, which would later become known as Pi and Pythagoras, it is quite obvious that much of our mathematical knowledge was also derived from Egypt. 19. Gunpowder. According to the Independent’s cerebrally challenged reporter, although the Chinese invented gunpowder it was left to our hero Islamists to ‘reine the formula by adding potassium nitrate for military use’! It is dificult to 11 1001 Islamic Inventions Fig 10. The twin pillars of Jachin and Boaz from the Temple of Solomon, according to the designs of masonic lore. Note that they are surmounted by the globe of the cosmos and the globe of the Earth, indicating a very early knowledge of the spherical Earth. know what to say about this statement, apart from ‘never trust anything the Independent newspaper says’, or better still, ‘never buy the Independent’. Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese in about the 9th century AD, and by the 11th century rockets and ireworks were being manufactured. By all the accounts available, the nitrate used in this gunpowder was the standard gunpowder ingredient of saltpetre, or potassium nitrate. Therefore, it is simply not possible for Islamic ‘scientists’ to have ‘added potassium nitrate’ at a later date. However, the fact that Islam saw great potential in gunpowder for furthering its many genocidal wars, is not so surprising. 20. Gardens. According to this exhibition of inventions and to the Independent newspaper, it was Muslims who irst developed the ornamental garden as a place of beauty and meditation. Again this is sycophantic drivel, written by quisling apologists for murder on the streets of Europe. Undoubtedly the majority of wealthy civilisations have at some point discovered the delights of bringing a tamed and cultured countryside into the city, and the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon would surely have been one formal garden that even the dimmest of Independent reporters could have recalled (ig 11). However, if we travel a little further west and a little further back in time, we ind that the Egyptians also had pleasure gardens for the royalty and aristocracy. The gardens of Pharaoh Akhenaton at Amarna would have been known as the Garden of the Aten (Aden), and were probably the origin of the legend of the Garden of Eden (Aden). See the book Eden in Egypt for further details. Nobel Laureates If Islam has been singularly unable to advance science and technology in the 12 1001 Islamic Inventions Fig 11. An artist’s impression of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which are thought to have been created in about the 6th century BC. Image by Juan Alvarez de Lara Sieder. An Egyptian formal garden (below), complete with ornamental pool, from the tomb of Nebamun, approximately 14th century BC. A formal garden at Amarna, the city of Akhenaton, 14th century BC. These gardens would have been known as the Garden of Aten (Aden), and it is from these very gardens that the mythology of the Garden of Eden (Aden) was derived. See the book ‘Eden in Egypt’ for details. 13 1001 Islamic Inventions past, the same is even more true today. Because Islam has not been able to take over any vibrant free-thinking nations recently, it has stagnated into its own fetid cesspit of absolutism, and done absolutely nothing for civilisation and mankind for the last 500 years or more. The igures speak for themselves. These are the numbers of Nobel Laureates in all disciplines, except for the peace prize.*3 Jewish laureates Jewish population 172 13 million Muslim laureates Muslim population 3 1,700 million Total of all laureates Percentage Jewish laureates Percentage Muslim laureates 723 24% 0.5% Number of laureates per million Jews 13 Number of laureates per million Muslims 0.002 8 This low number of Muslim Nobel laureates is not due to any lack of populations, nor due to a lack of wealth. The oil rich Middle East sports any number of richly sponsored universities and Saudi Arabia spends billions of dollars on sponsoring madrassas across the Islamic world. However, most of those madrassas only teach students Arabic and the Koran until they are eleven years old, so it is not surprising that they struggle with mathematics and science at a later point in their education. The same is true of many of the better Middle Eastern schools for infants and juniors (and Saudi sponsored schools based in the UK and America too). Nevertheless many Muslim students go on to study in well-funded and well-appointed universities in the Middle East, and also to some of the inest universities in the West. And yet their Nobel Laureate tally is, well, woeful. Why is this? It is racism (theism), as some might cry as a relex reaction to any perceived difference between cultures and peoples? I think not. The Nobel system is like any British education establishment, and therefore brimming with liberal multiculturalists who would do anything in their power to promote the image and standing of Islam in the world, and yet Anyone can win the peace prize. Barack Obama won it simply for coming irst in an election. On that basis, why did they not give a Nobel Prize to Saddam Hussein, for he ‘won’ a few elections too. *3 14 1001 Islamic Inventions they have failed to do so. Why? This is only a theory, and not based upon any particular research, but it has to be observed that Islam is, at its very core, an idle and apathetic religion, with no concept of a work ethic. The Koran preaches that this life is but a sport, and the real life is in the next life - which will be all idle luxury comprised of ornate couches, sumptuous cushions and every food and drink imaginable, supplied by the busty black-eyed virgins that god will provide for you. The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. Surely better is the life to come for those who fear god. Will you not understand? 6:32 The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. It is the life to come that is the true life: if they but knew it. 29:64 Know that the life of this world is but a sport and a diversion, a show and an empty boast among you ... It is like the plants that lourish after rain ... but then they wither and turn yellow, soon becoming worthless stubble. 57:20 This apathetic or existential nihilistic philosophy was just wonderful for Muhummad’s genocidal armies, as this is exactly what you want soldiers to believe: “Don’t worry about death, for this life is only a sport.” The Koran was written during Muhummad’s genocidal war against the Jews, Christians and Pagans of Medina, and it relects that war in urging its followers on to martyrdom. This is why it is so easy for Muslim leaders and clerics to train suicide bombers, for Islam is cult of death with the Koran as the supreme manual for inciting hatred, death and war. However, having won the battles and the wars, Islam then has an almighty problem. This existential nihilistic cult of death, which was so useful in winning wars, is absolutely useless when it comes to nation building. How do you instill a work ethic in a population who believe wholeheartedly that this life is a useless distraction from the true and worthy objective of death? How can you build a nation, on such a belief system? A nation depends on many different people and their families striving towards a common goal, to build and create a better world for us, for our generation, and for the many generations to come. That is why we build nice houses and great cities, and that is why we strive for a better future for our children. But why should anyone do all this, if the ultimate goal of the dark force is death? Why should anyone strive to educate themselves, with all those countless sleepless nights spent in study and prep to pass an exam, if everything in this life is but a sport? Why work hard to earn a good wage, if Allah will provide for you, even if you sit on a doorstep all day smoking 15 1001 Islamic Inventions hash? This is a problem for Islam, a big problem. And it is not simply education that suffers under the lethargy of the Islamic creed, so too does sport. Take a look at the following tally of Olympic gold medals won, dating from the start of the modern Olympiad. Islamic Ummah Nation Afghanistan Algeria Egypt Kuwait Indonesia Iran Iraq Libya Morocco Pakistan Saudi Sudan Tunisia Turkey UAE Total Golds Population 0 4 7 0 6 11 0 0 6 0 0 0 2 37 1 74 (30m) (35m) (80m) (1m) (130m) (75m) (31m) (6m) (32m) (171m) (27m) (40m) (10m) (80m) (8m) (764m) Western Ummah Nation Golds Population Aus/NZ Canada Germany/GDR France Italy UK USA USSR/Russia Total 180 59 383 202 198 236 976 697 2931 (26m) (34m) (81m) (66m) (60m) (62m) (312m) (290m) (869m) Since the beginning of the 19th century the lands of Islam have provided us with 74 gold medal champions, while the small number of Western nations listed here have won no fewer than 2,931. And the tally in the 2012 Olympics was very similar, with Islam claiming 8 golds and the Christio-secular nations 16 1001 Islamic Inventions mentioned above gaining 143 golds. Could there be any clearer illustration of the sloth and lethargy that Islam breeds in a population? And again this is not a problem of inance nor population levels, because many sports need very little in the way of investment, and even the sports that do could be easily inanced by the wealthy Middle East. What sport requires, the very thing that is markedly lacking in all Islamic nations, is dedication and perseverance. Another thing that cannot be done very easily in sport, is to cheat the system to any great degree. University degrees and technical diplomas can be bought for cash, or given away as nepotistic awards, and I have witnessed both issues on many occasions. But with sport, lashings of money or highlevel political inluence within a society means absolutely nothing, for the stopwatch is the inal arbiter of talent. Even the drug taking that we have all heard about, would be of no advantage to the indolent Muslim with wads of cash in his hand. Most sporting drugs merely allow athletes to train harder and longer, they do not produce champions from the idle who make no effort. Islam may be able to buy the 2022 World Cup football tournament, but it cannot buy the gold medal in the men’s 100m sprint. And as further evidence for this assertion, look at those Islamic medal totals again. Turkey, the most Western and least Islamic of all the nations in that list, won a full 50% of all the Islamic gold medals. This is clear evidence that the fault lies with Islam itself, for it is a nihilist creed that preaches that nothing in this world is of any signiicance. In Islam, only the next world matters and so striving to achieve anything in this world, even a humble sporting achievement, is both pointless and meaningless. But where Islam is diluted, even with a small portion of Western secularism, as it is in Turkey, suddenly the people can achieve greater success. Islamic success But perhaps we should not be too harsh on Islam and Muslims, for there is one ield of human endeavour where they outshine all other religions, creeds and cultures put together - acts of terrorism. The website Religionofpeace has been counting the number of Islamic terrorist attacks since 2001, and it has thus far reached the impressive tally of 22,000 deadly Islamic attacks across the world since that time, resulting in about 120,000 deaths. That is nearly ive terrorist attacks and 25 deaths, each and every day for ten whole years. That’s more murders in four months than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition, and more murders in four months than in all 36 years of the Northern Irish Troubles. Bravo for Islam, the so-called Religion of Peace, bravo. Think about this for a moment, we wring our hands about some of the many atrocities committed in the past, and yet the majority of these 17 1001 Islamic Inventions pale into insigniicance when compared to Islamic murders across the globe. And this is not some fabricated mythology derived from a diet of rabid Western bias against everything Islamic, it is the reality of the world around us - this is the sole reason why we are subjected to lengthy and humiliating security searches at airports, for there is no other worldwide terrorism to protect us against. So let us look at the world’s trouble hotspots over the last few decades, and readers will ind that they will include: Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Darfur, Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Kurdistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Bali, New York, Washington, Mumbai, Beslan, Moscow, Madrid, London and Glasgow. And now, just to add to all that woe, tragedy and mayhem, we now (in 2011) have civil unrest on the streets of the feudal nations of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Yemen. Just what is it that links all these trouble hotspots? Let us think for a minute. It is Hinduism? Is it Judaism? Is it Christianity? Is it Buddhism? Is it Agnostic Atheism? Is it blackness or whiteness? Is it tallness or shortness? Is it Western or Eastern culture? ... Or is it just, perhaps, Islam? But no, none of this terror can be the fault of Islam, because the liberal Western media says it is all our fault for being too critical, or perhaps it is the fault of Israel, or maybe George Bush, or those evil oil companies, or perhaps even the tooth-fairy - but it is never the fault of Islam. So let’s pause for a minute, and think logically and rationally. It is time we faced the facts, instead of inding an excuse for each and every terrorist outrage - all 22,000 of them since 2011. Let’s call a spade a spade: the fundamental problem with all the world’s civil wars and terrorism is Islam. Ralph Ellis June 2011 Extracted from: Mary Magdalene, Princess of Orange. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Ruba’iyyat-i Hakim Umar Khayyam, by Sadegh Hedayat. In Search of Omar Khayyam. Trans. L.P. 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