Saudi cleric tells students 'Earth does not rotate'

Fretwired

A Saudi cleric has claimed that the Earth does not rotate, and that the Sun orbits the Earth.

Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari, answering questions from students at a university in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, told his audience the Earth is "stationary and does not move".

To prove his point, Mr Khaibari launched into a convoluted effort to explain his theory using the example of an airplane flying to China.

"If we leave Sharjah airport on an international flight to China... the Earth is rotating, right?" he asked sarcastically. "So, if the plane stops still on air, wouldn't China be coming towards it? True or not?"

"If the Earth rotates on the other direction, the plane will not be able to reach China, because China is also rotating as the plane rotates."

So we now have Sharia science ...

lloyd

Can't argue with that logic, where do I sign up?

Phil_aka_Pip

:-O

Fretwired

lloyd said:

Can't argue with that logic, where do I sign up?

Unfortunately you won't be alone .. IS will now execute anyone who thinks the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Religious Fruitcakes R Us.

randomhandclaps

Suck it up dickheads. The earth rotates and in 12 hours time your gonna be breathing western air.

ESchap

I suspect that he also thinks that the world revolves around him

Phil_aka_Pip

randomhandclaps said:

Suck it up dickheads. The earth rotates and in 12 hours time your gonna be breathing western air.

in which I have farted

edit after eating pork

ThorpyFX

What's sad about this is that the Islamic faith, back in the day progressed science a great deal and were world leaders in the field. This guy here is a moron- nothing to do with religion, he is just a straight up moron

bluechargeboy

thorpy6 said:

What's sad about this is that the Islamic faith, back in the day progressed science a great deal and were world leaders in the field. This guy here is a moron- nothing to do with religion, he is just a straight up moron

I came here to say the same thing. Thinking Mr Khaibari is outside his field of expertise here...

imalone

Nice demonstration that there are idiots of all beliefs. It's always been a university debating society favourite in this country to invite along a raving nutter to speak every so often, don't know if it's the same elsewhere. (Cambridge Union nearly had Abu Hamza at one point.)
Anyone else's first thought, "He's even got the direction of rotation wrong."?

Phil_aka_Pip

thorpy6 said:

What's sad about this is that the Islamic faith, back in the day progressed science a great deal and were world leaders in the field. This guy here is a moron- nothing to do with religion, he is just a straight up moron

I wonder if the progress that the arabic world made at that time - in algebra especially (the name is derived from an arabic source) was in spite of not because of the dominant religion? Galileo made his discoveries in spite of the Roman Catholic church.

ESchap

Don't mention Darwinian evolution in Middle America!

Fretwired

ESchap said:

Don't mention Darwinian evolution in Middle America!

A prospective candidate for the US Presidency was interviewed on Newsnight last week .. an impressive black doctor who spoke well, had some good ideas right up until he said 'I don't believe in evolution' .. he's in the running for a nomination for the top job. He's probably a creationist.

Bogwhoppit

I can't help thinking that somewhere along the timeline, these fruit-loafs missed out the scientific revolution.  Which is problematic, when the Islamic transmission of such knowledge defined the start of modern day science and medicine ?

ICBM

He should probably read this, and the sources referenced in it…

http://muslimheritage.com/article/copernicus-and-arabic-astronomy-review-recent-research

I suspect a lot of it may be above his level of understanding though.

chillidoggy

I'm more amazed at the fact that we've had to wait until some foreign crackpot pitches up with this kind of guff, and yet Sambostar's never once mentioned it before.

Weird.

speshul91

I wonder if he uses moon cheese on his sandwiches as well

Chuffola

The scary thing is that some IS nutter will now use this as a reason to attack students / scientists etc.

I'm a pretty tolerant person, I think, but I'm finding it harder and harder to see how we deal with these arseholes without resorting to carpet-bombing them.

And yes, I know that makes me a bad person. 

Adam_MD

Chuffola;526144" said:

The scary thing is that some IS nutter will now use this as a reason to attack students / scientists etc.

I'm a pretty tolerant person, I think, but I'm finding it harder and harder to see how we deal with these arseholes without resorting to carpet-bombing them.

And yes, I know that makes me a bad person. 

No Chuff it doesn't.

scrumhalf

I'll see if I can find the video of the Saudi cleric saying that women shouldn't drive because if the car breaks down they are in danger of being raped.

His solution - allow foreign women drivers. Because, presumably...

jd0272

scrumhalf said:

I'll see if I can find the video of the Saudi cleric saying that women shouldn't drive because if the car breaks down they are in danger of being raped.

His solution - allow foreign women drivers. Because, presumably...

....they won't drive French cars that will break down?