Seven Myths About Islam Part 7

7. The myth: “The Quran described the development of the Embryo”

The fact: the Quranic description of the development of the embryo is completely wrong.

Muslims usually refer to the following verses

“(Q.23: 12-14) We created man from a product of wet earth, then placed him as a drop of seed in a safe lodging, then We fashioned the drop a clot, and of the clot, We fashioned a lump, and of the lump We fashioned bones, and We clothed the bones (with) meat.”

The above description of fetal development are what we would expect from the women of the seventh century Arabia, but not as we would expect from a doctor, prophet or a god. It is usual for the Quran to repeat the prevailing scientific mistakes of its time, but in the above verses it probably has gone beyond the limits. The suggestion that the skeletal system (bones) is first created then clothed with flesh is simply a lethal mistake.

When Muslims debate this issue they refer to scientific illustrations, articles and western doctors who have no clue what the Quran actually says in Arabic. I do not see the point in subjecting the above verses to scientific scrutiny because there is no science involved at all. The verses are simply a reflection of the prevailing ignorance on the subject.

The Arabs criticized Mohammed whenever he said something that looks absurd to them but on this occasion they accepted the verses without any criticism, which indicates that the verses were in parallel with the prevailing knowledge in the 7th century Arabia (8).

Crackdown on sexual grooming is widened across Lancashire

THE success of Operation Engage, a crackdown on sexual grooming of young girls in East Lancashire, has led to the scheme being rolled out elsewhere in the county.

The £250,000 project has been launched in Preston and police said three cases had been referred to them already.

As well as dealing with cases of sex exploitation the scheme will also try to give advice to people so they do not become victims.

Det Insp Steve Hobson said: “Similar units already exist in other parts of the county. It’s inconceivable child exploitation exists in other parts of the county and not in Preston.

“Some have been extremely significant cases and usually see older males exploiting young vulnerable females.

“The referrals we have had include two to three cases of children in care who have been groomed by older Asian males, taken out of the area and abused by other men.”

Operation Engage was launched in Blackburn, Darwen, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley in 2006.

A year later, following the success of Engage, officers in Pennine Division, which covers Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, set up Operation Freedom.

Go figure muslim men are abusing little girls.

Ex-sailor sentenced to 10 years in terror case

New Haven, Conn. (AP) - A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements and the best ways to attack them was sentenced today to the maximum 10 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz said Hassan Abu-Jihaad, of Phoenix, betrayed his country and endangered his fellow sailors.

“I cannot really overstate the seriousness of this crime,” Kravitz said. The leak “does constitute a fundamental betrayal of your country and of your oath. You endangered your colleagues, you endangered your vessel and other vessels and other sailors, and you endangered your country.”

Abu-Jihaad was convicted last year of disclosing classified national defense information.

Prosecutors labeled him a traitor who was trying to help foreign terrorists replicate the bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors.

Abu-Jihaad did not speak during the hearing. His attorney, Dan LaBelle, said his client maintained his innocence and appreciated the fairness of the court.

He said his client’s demeanor in court has been “very remarkable.”

Prosecutor William Nardani encouraged Kravitz to consider Abu-Jihaad’s actions, not his demeanor in court. He said the former sailor praised the Cole bombing as an operation carried out by martyrs.

“That is a twisted view of the world,” Nardani said.

Kravitz said Abu-Jihaad’s sentence should be a deterrent for anyone who supports terrorism.

“We happen to be engaged in a very different struggle right now,” Kravitz said. “It’s really a struggle about the fundamentals of freedom. That struggle will go on for quite some time and we need to ensure the people that are part of that struggle on our end uphold the oath and protect classified information from getting into the hands of those who stand opposed to those concepts of freedom.”

Abu-Jihaad was also convicted on a charge of providing material support to terrorists, but Kravitz overturned the conviction last month, citing the language of the law.

With a name of Abu-Jihaad one would think that the Navy would have maybe looked into this guy before this could have happened?

German police accuse Kurdish men of "honour killing"

Kleve, Germany - German police charged Thursday that the grisly death of a 20-year-old ethnic Kurdish woman had been an 'honour killing,' and that her brother had confessed to the crime.

Germans have been outraged at a recent series of execution-style honour killings of young women by immigrant families.

The murder of Gulsum S, 20, on a lonely country road one month ago had been made to look as it were a robbery, said police in Kleve, near the Dutch border, as they announced the arrest and remand in custody of the victim's brother, 20, and father.

Prosecutors said Gulsum was lured by a false story to the side road near the small town of Rees on March 2. Her sibling, who was also a triplet to Gulsum, allegedly choked her unconscious with a clothes line. She was then clubbed to death.

The brother admitted to the killing, but the father denied the charge of joint murder, police said.

Police said the family had attempted to force Gulsum into a planned marriage and then discovered she was not a virgin and had undergone one or more abortions.

Gulsum had left home last year with the help of welfare officials and moved to a safe house, but then returned home to Rees.

The brother had taken Gulsum's purse so as to make the killing look like a fatal mugging.

Honour killings occur in conservative central Asian societies which view female premarital sex as a stain on their reputation.

In a similar case, a 24-year-old ethnic Tajik youth from Afghanistan was convicted in February of stabbing to death his schoolgirl sister, Morsal O, aged 16, in Hamburg last year. Read more: German police accuse Kurdish men of "honour killing" -

Ahhh, muslim family values. But hey, she knew the rules. No sex before marriage and daddy gets to pick which of his brother's sons will be the husband.

Pennsylvania: Suicide vest found in house

No worries. Jihad in America -- pah! Obama is President! Probably this thing was left behind by a member of the Tamil Tigers on vacation.

MOUNT WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Workers cleaning out a house in Mt. Washington called police when they found a device with what looked like pipe bombs with wires and nails attached.

"It looked exactly like somebody would wear in a suicide bomber-type of scene or suicide bomber- type of incident," said Sheldon Williams, of the Pittsburgh police bomb squad.

The device was found outside 559 Southern Avenue late Thursday morning while workers from Pittsburgh Iron and Scrap Metal were picking up scrap metal. While loading materials into their truck, they noticed a device and called authorities.

The ace reporters don't seem to have checked on who lived there.

Now we have suicide bombers here in the US? Well, why not? We are now going to bring the terrorists from Club Gitmo to the US. They can show our home grown idiots how they are to use these new toys.

Motoonist says BBC "appeasing Muslim fanatics"

The BBC has been accused of appeasement of radical Islam by the artist behind one of the infamous cartoons of Mohammed.

Kurt Westergaard claims the corporation's decision not to air a recent interview with him came because they are petrified of upsetting Muslims extremists.

Westergaard was one of the 12 cartoonists commissioned by the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005 to produce caricatures of the Muslim prophet.

Islamic tradition says no image of him should be produced or shown....

Mr Westergaard, 73, gave his first-ever English interview to BBC journalist Malcolm Brabant four weeks ago.

It had been expected to go out on BBC World, the BBC News channel, across radio services and on its website. But the corporation has kept the report under wraps amid claims it is frightened that it will 'inflame' Muslims around the world.

Mr Westergaard told the Daily Mail last night: 'I am disappointed on behalf of the freedom of speech. Every time you are afraid I think you make a step backwards. That is depressing me.'

He compared the BBC's behaviour with the way countries tried to appease Hitler before the Second World War and added: 'If you have an appeasement policy towards the radical Muslims then you are on a very wrong way and you have to start marching backwards.'...

The UK and EU are full of Eurodhimmi's. Now our own muslim president is over there bowing to the king of saudi arabia.