Therefore we need to stop all the hate that's going on
Therefore we need to stop all the hate that's going on
Ok. I'm in.
Proud Obama Voter wrote:
Therefore we need to stop all the hate that's going on
So the Greeks weren't doing Algebra like 700 years before Muhammed even started Islam in the 7th century?
An Egyptian black Muslim man, Alhazen, invented the Scientific Method in the 10th C. There would be no cures and treatments for polio, cancer, leukemia, AIDS, Ebola, etc. without Alhazen. There would be no twitter, internet, TV, 3-D printing, without Alhazen's invention.
Good luck with all that.
Ibn al Haytham - The First Scientist - Alhazen Biography
Known in the West as Alhazen, Alhacen, or Alhazeni, Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al- Hasan ibn al-Haytham was the first person to test hypotheses with verifiable experiments, developing the scientific method more than 200 years before European scholars learned of it—by reading his books.
Born in Basra in 965, Ibn al-Haitham first studied theology, trying unsuccessfully to resolve the differences between the Shi'ah and Sunnah sects. Ibn al-Haitham then turned his attention to the works of the ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians, including Euclid and Archimedes. He completed the fragmentary Conics by Apollonius of Perga. Ibn al-Haitham was the first person to apply algebra to geometry, founding the branch of mathematics known as analytic geometry.
A devout Muslim, Ibn al-Haitham believed that human beings are flawed and only God is perfect. To discover the truth about nature, Ibn a- Haitham reasoned, one had to eliminate human opinion and allow the universe to speak for itself through physical experiments. "The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them," the first scientist wrote, "but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration."
In his massive study of light and vision, Kitâb al-Manâzir (Book of Optics ), Ibn al-Haytham submitted every hypothesis to a physical test or mathematical proof. To test his hypothesis that "lights and colors do not blend in the air," for example, Ibn al-Haytham devised the world's first camera obscura, observed what happened when light rays intersected at its aperture, and recorded the results. Throughout his investigations, Ibn al-Haytham followed all the steps of the scientific method.
Kitab al-Manazir was translated into Latin as De aspectibus and attributed to Alhazen in the late thirteenth century in Spain. Copies of the book circulated throughout Europe. Roger Bacon, who sometimes is credited as the first scientist, not only read De aspectibus but summarized its findings in part five of his Opus Majus, or Greater Work, referring to Ibn al-Haytham by his Latinized name, Alhazen, and describing his experiments in detail.
Ibn al-Haytham conducted many of his experiments investigating the properties of light during a ten-year period when he was stripped of his possessions and imprisoned as a madman in Cairo. How Ibn al-Haytham came to be in Egypt, why he was judged insane, and how his discoveries launched the scientific revolution are just some of the questions Bradley Steffens answers in Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist, the world's first biography of the Muslim polymath.
Midwest Book Review calls Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist a "fine blend of history and science biography." Booklist concurs, praising Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist as a "clearly written introduction to Ibn al-Haytham, his society, and his contributions." Kirkus Reviews touts Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist as "an illuminating narrative...of a devout, brilliant polymath." Children's Literature comments, "Steffens deftly weaves an overview of Islamic history into this biography. Writing for The Fountain, Dr. Ertan Salik adds: "I congratulate Bradley Steffens for his beautiful work about Ibn al-Haytham and his advancement of experimental science." Writing for the Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, Dr. Husain F Nagamia obvserves, "Steffens has the unique ability of a storyteller that makes the reading of his book as interesting as a spy thriller, unfolding the events in Ibn al-Haytham’s life like the clues being discovered by a forensic detective."
Critics are not the only ones praising Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist; casual readers are lauding it as well. In a 5-star Amazon.com review, Haitham Hamad called it a "fantastic book, written in a brilliant manner." In another 5-star Amazon.com review entitled "Little Book - Big Message," Brian Francis Neary wrote, "First Scientist" is entertaining, educational and inspiring. A great read." Abdul Jabbar Al-Shammari, the director of the Ibn al- Haitham Center for Science and Technology in Amman, Jordan, writes: "I enjoyed reading about the events in the life of the first scientist, Ibn al- Haitham. I congratulate Bradley Steffens on writing a fantastic and accurate book.” The blog Skulls in the Stars comments: "Steffens has written a wonderfully clear and concise account of al-Haytham’s life and work." A. Nor of Ohio adds, "I find the book interesting, for it accords and recognizes a Muslim scientist his proper place as the first scientist who is responsible for advocating experimental work in verifying conceived scientific ideas (hypotheses)." And Reformistan blogger Usman Mirza, of Karachi, Pakistan, writes, "As Muslims, we are subject of taunts for our ‘backwardness’ and lack of secular, scientific achievements. I encourage readers to read a book on the 'first scientist', a Muslim in Islam’s golden age. It is a nicely written biography of Ibn al- Haytham by a westerner, Bradley Steffens. He has written about a neglected subject that needs to be read by all."
You are the only kind of pvssy muslims like.
Proud Obama Voter wrote:
Therefore we need to stop all the hate that's going on
And now muslims are hairy, tent-dwelling, sister raping followers of a pedophile stuck in a time warp that 1,000 years behind like their neighbors in Africa.
The Scientific Method wrote:
An Egyptian black Muslim man, Alhazen, invented the Scientific Method in the 10th C. There would be no cures and treatments for polio, cancer, leukemia, AIDS, Ebola, etc. without Alhazen. There would be no twitter, internet, TV, 3-D printing, without Alhazen's invention.
Freedom Trail wrote:
So the Greeks weren't doing Algebra like 700 years before Muhammed even started Islam in the 7th century?
They used what we would call geometric algebra, but it was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi who helped make algebra independent of geometry. The name algebra comes from Arabic, meaning the reunion of broken parts.
As a former Muslim and raised Muslim I will tell you this.
No Arab Muslim will admit they support the terrorists to a westerners face unless they feel they can scare or convert them.
Most of the peaceful Muslims are either considered kafirs themselves by the "real" Muslims doing or supporting violence or are western young Muslims who are Muslim in name only.
Most support the extremists but are too scared to commit those acts unless forced or are waiting until they have an upper hand.
There are good Arabs and good Arab Muslims, but they just don't follow the Quran as intended as the peacefulness it preaches is in the contexts of an Islamic community not in a multicultural one.
I hope one day we all can have peace but the violent individuals and those harboring supplying and supporting them need to be found and dealt with.
The next time says that we shouldn't judge all Muslims by the violence generated by some, I'm going to say, "Yeah, and that goes for legal gun owners too!"
OP
OK. Are you saying that we should not take it out on all Muslims, for the "small %" of Muslims that are violent?
I'm not aware of any other religious affiliations that are waging war on our country, are you?
Were the pilots of the planes flown into the twin towers catholic, or Jewish? Did I miss that?
Do the Protestants have suicide bombers?
Maybe you are right. Let's do a hypothetical, and say you are right, that only 1% of all Muslims are violent. So what? We as Americans have been attacked. And we have been attacked several times, and had some of our citizens be-headed . And, the common denominator in all of this is ...? Is?
Come on, you can say it...
Thank you, your silence is deafening
Proud Obama Voter wrote:
Therefore we need to stop all the hate that's going on
What have they done lately? Muslim fundamentalists want to keep women in subhuman conditions with no rights. Yet one woman, Marie Curie, has as many science Nobel Prizes as all Muslims ever.
Nonetheless, this is about Jihadists, not Muslims. Christians had a Reformation and left the Crusades, Inquisition, Thirty Years War, etc., in the past. If Muslims want to have a reformation and leave Jihadism in the past, I'm all for it.
easy wrote:
Do the Protestants have suicide bombers?
well, maybe not "suicide", and maybe not in THIS country, but apparently you are unfamiliar with this??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Forcehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6617329.stmThey committed some HORRIBLE atrocities with bombings of innocents, as did their catholic counterparts (IRA).
Yes, jihadists have topped everyone in recent memory with their evil, but don't act Islamists are the ONLY ones who have committed terrorism and atrocities in recent memory.
Math isn't invented.
14,000 or so murders every year in America and 30,000 gun deaths, but this series of shootings in France is somehow a tragedy of world historical proportions that should change how all of us live. The gun-related homicide rate in the U.S. was recently 2.83/100,000, whereas in France it was 0.22.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
The IRA actions were not based on religion. They were politically motivated with the ultimate goal of n ireland gaining independance from G Britain. Don't be a fool in claiming anything different.
Lefty O'Droole wrote:
The IRA actions were not based on religion. They were politically motivated with the ultimate goal of n ireland gaining independance from G Britain. Don't be a fool in claiming anything different.
Exactly, and Islam is a military/political organisation that will never stop until we are all dead or dhimmis living with no rights paying the jizya (half your income) to our new nutjob masters. Note the Imam on the video link blatantly stating that they want Sharia law.
Resist the encroachment of Islam at every opportunity.
Tyrannosaurus Rexing wrote:
easy wrote:Do the Protestants have suicide bombers?
well, maybe not "suicide", and maybe not in THIS country, but apparently you are unfamiliar with this??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Forcehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6617329.stmThey committed some HORRIBLE atrocities with bombings of innocents, as did their catholic counterparts (IRA).
Those were completely political conflicts. You may as well say world war II was also full of protestants bombing innocents.
Tyrannosaurus Rexing wrote:
well, maybe not "suicide", and maybe not in THIS country, but apparently you are unfamiliar with this??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Forcehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6617329.stmThey committed some HORRIBLE atrocities with bombings of innocents, as did their catholic counterparts (IRA).
Yes, jihadists have topped everyone in recent memory with their evil, but don't act Islamists are the ONLY ones who have committed terrorism and atrocities in recent memory.
As has been pointed out by others yours is a horrible analogy. That was a political conflict, not a religious one. You could reasonably compare that to the Palestinians who want to establish a Palestinian state in what is now Israel. But to compare it to this virulent Islamic fascism is absurd.