Three Muslims from the UAE become first non-U.S. citizens to train at NASA

Barrack Obama's recent advocation of increased collaboration with the Arab world in the realms of science and technology.

Rasool Obama did not say Arab world, he said Mahoundians...

Infiltration. Subversion. And endless opportunities for sabotage and intellectual espionage - A Q Khan all over again.

Every day I think I can't be more shocked than I already am concerning America's appeasement of the Mohammedans. And, America's PC MC suicidal Stupidity.

And every day I'm proven wrong.

Better to fly a space shuttle, bigger faster than a Boeing.

With all the money they'll save on water, do you think they'll give us a discount on oil?

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Nah, I don't think so either.

"I will definitely go back to the UAE and try to return some of the favours it did for me. I just want to utilize my knowledge and expertise."...

Who is "it" that did the favours which this grateful and excited Emirati Arab believes deserve repaying? Apparently "it" is not, as one might think, the generous government of the United States, having this special Muslim Outreach Program at NASA, designed to help Muslims with self-esteem problems but, rather, "it" turns out to the government of the U.A.E., a collection of seven statelets, one of which, Abu Dhabi, has oil, and another of which, Dubai, has made itself the vulgarest third-world Las-Vegas-Cum-Rodeo-Drive on stilts that can be imagined, a tribe of parvenus, with their hideous conceptions of what constitutes the "good life" -- which is to say, luxury beyond measure, gold souks, and of course an army of wage-slaves to attend to every need of the locals, and then some.

Why has this been done?

It has been done because someone had the bright idea that what ailed the Muslims and Arabs was a "lack of self-esteem" But it is quite the reverse that ails them, for Islam teaches that Muslims are the "best of peoples" and it is Muislims who rightly lay claim to all the lands of the earth, if only those pesky Infidels would just get out of the way, with their silly laws, and customs, and notions about human freedom, and refusal to accept -- those ingrates, those Kuffar -- the Messazge of Islam the way they should.

Islam, we can agree, is history-haunt5ed. Again and again Muslims keep coming back to, harping on, never leaving for a second, the "greatness of Islamic civilization" in the past." This is one of the identifying features of Fascism, or its even worse variant, Nazism. Mussolini kept telling the Italians about the Roman Empire, about the Mediterranean as "Mare Nostrum," about the new Italy that would recapture, with such feats as the seizure of Abyssinia, that greatness some two thousand years old.

Hitler had all kinds of Teutonic myths about the Germanic tribes in the wooded forests of 1400 years ago, and part of the demand for Lebensraum was based on the idea that the native energy, power, strengh of those ancestral Teutonic tribes was now bottled up in lands too limited for the energies of the Germanic, Aryan race, and that is why they had a right to seize the lands now occupied by the Slavs, to give themselves the chance to recover, and in full, their ancient glories, at least the putative glories described by Nazi "historians" and "scholars."

The same kind of exaggeration, and more importantly, the flight from reality into a past that is party mythical, can be observed in Islam. There is no need to feed "self-esteem" of Muslims; what is necessary, in fact, is quite the opposite -- to constantly reiterate what the well-educated all know to be true, that is that the habit of mental submission in Islam, the discouragement of free and skeptical inquiry (in the first place, about anythning to do with Islam, but since Islam covers all areas of life, such discouragement in the end extends to discouraging free and skeptical inquiry about practically everything).

We need to learn, and to have all non-Muslims learn, and then Muslims overhear us talking about, all the ways that Islam itself explains the many failures -- political, economic, social, intellectual, and moral -- of Islam itself. We need to demoralize Muslims, to give them the same doubts that allowed Ataturk, when he came to power, to systematically constrain Islam in order, as he put it, to rescue Turkey, to bring it into the moderrn world which, Ataturk understood, was not a world with which Islam could co-exist.

I suspect that those who run this program do not understand is wrong with it. Just three kids now, another nine to come, just a dozen sweet kids, Arabs from the Emirates, and besides, the U.A.E. will be contributing money (I assume the U.A.E. is footing the bill), what's the harm? The harm is this: as long as the Muslim world think that it can have access to Western education, Western medicine, Western technology - just look at how many among the elites of the Arab countries, of Iran, of Pakistan, send their children to schools run by Christians (as Baghdad College, or Victoria College, or various schools run by nuns for girls in Pakistan), and yet fail to recognize that the reason they do so is that the education that schools run by Muslism are always going to be inferior schools, precisely because they are Muslim, and do not teach students how to think, or even allow for that possibility. But the students who go to these schools, and then go on to further education in the West, do not -- unlike non-Muslim students from everywhere -- come away recognizing the great privilege they have been granted. They seldom begin to question their own ways and views, for that means questioning Islam, and that is something that only a very few, the most intellectually and morally advanced (as Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, Magdi Allam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali) are capable of doing.

We should not encourage the world's Muslims to think they will have access to our schools, our programs, our hospitals, our technology (the same technology that has been appropriated by Al Qaeda, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and many other terrorist groups "too numerous to mention," , to disseminate their message, the full message of Islam).

Nor should we be sending a message to the non-Muslims of this world, especially in countries,as in sub-Saharan Africa, where Christians must fend off Muslims, a message that says: the mighty United States favors Muslims, has special programs for Muslims. What, logically, does this do, if not to dishearten Christians who, in such places as Nigeria and Sudan, know exactly what Islam has meant for them? And what does it do save to encourage Muslim triumphalism, the quiet satisfaction that those Americans are going to keep trying, trying, trying, to win hearts, win minds, as they did in Iraq, as they are doing in Afghanistan, as they do, with still more squandering that reflects a failure on the part of those in the American government charged with dealing with Islam and those who most ardently take the message of Islam to heart, of lack of knowledge, of inability to think clearly, of a lack -- perhaps based on poor training in both history and literature -- of imagination.

Programs that are for, that favor, Muslims only, however Americans may think of them, will be taken in much of the world as a sign that there are benefits to be reaped -- look at all that money poured into Iraq, into Afghanistan, into Pakistan (or Egypt, Jordan, the "Palestinian" Authority)-- by being Muslim, and apparently none if you are not-Muslim.

This is a very small, seemingingly innocuous, but non-trivial part of the madness.

It's got to stop.

By the time the Democrats, progressives and Obama finishes with you, you'll be calling for alla's mercy.

Oh, c'mon. What is the US getting out of it? The undying love of hundreds of billions of Muslims.

Can't we pack the rest of 'em into that spacecraft and put in the pilot seat one of those guys who only learned to fly, didn't want to learn to land?

Please?

Everyday I see more and more suicidal steps taken by the present administration. NASA Chief was telling the truth regarding getting Muslims in the space program per Hussain Obama's wishes and yet the WH liars denied the story. This is but one lie among many other that we have seen from top of White House. I am amazed that the fellow citizens did not see the lies coming from Hussain's past and elected him with a large majority. Naive, stupid, guilt ridden,...come to mind.

Will people wake up before 2012????

This is typical of this traitorous administration. All goodies reserved for non americans while we have to suffer through a failing economy and now high taxes. They are taxing us so they can send billions to failed states, goons and cutthroats around the world. And now this crap, like we have ran out of our own deserving young people. If we have to go out of the country for these NASA training programs why can't we get some of the people who actually likes us?

From The National link:

Mr Bani Malek said one invaluable byproduct of participating in the programme was the enhancement of cultural ties with the US.

“Forget about the technical stuff, it’s a great way to meet new people and tell them about our culture and exchange information and ideas,” he said.

What else to say?

He said he believes his project could have a direct impact on water-recycling technology in the UAE.

"The UAE suffers a lack of water resources," he said.

Instead of spending all that oil wealth on--oh, I don't know--water towers!, the UAE builds artificial islands and ski slopes.

The fact that these young men overlooked any expression of appreciation for the US funding and hosting of this activity is telling.

The fact that the young lady apparently wasn't interviewed along with them, even more so.

What level of sharia compliance is the Ames Research Center at? Will interns be given enough time to go pray. Is the cafeteria up to speed? Have all the racists been cleared out? etc.

"Three Emiratis who are the first non-US citizens to train at the Nasa space agency...." I would like to make a small correction to the usual BS coming from Islam: these persons are not the first non-US citizens to train at NASA. Eight Canadians have flown in space on US space shuttles, and were trained at the Canadian Space Agency and NASA. EVERYTHING Muslims say must be questioned. Everything.

I must say, this is truly bizarre, even by the standards of Obama's Theater of the Absurd...

At a time when funding for real science investigation and technology development is being rolled back at NASA, we've got this outreach to Moslems going on. Why? Can the American taxpayer expect to see any benefit from this effort? Are the UAE states undertaking the full cost of this venture? And even if they are understaking the costs, how do we make up the time of the personnel needed to train the UAE astronauts?

Such ventures have been undertaken in the past as a way of promoting teaming for future science ventures. Such teaming involves the influx of capital as well as a give and take in the discussion and setting of science/mission goals. What sort of goals are we to expect? Who is providing oversight on this program?

I wonder if muslim astronauts would step on the moon?!?!
Allah, the moon god in "The Perfect Man" (video)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/07/perfect-man.html

Will she wear the headscarf under her space helmet?
Nothing would surprise me.

So let me get this straight......Cape Canaveral is laying people off because of budget cuts but we can afford to train people from other countries?!! Muslims no less!!! Oba-mao is a scumbag traitor who needs to be removed from office.....by force if necessary!!!

What is the U.S. getting out of this?

APPEASEMENT POLICY DOESNOT HELP: IT IS LIKE FEEDING THE SNAKES. CRUSH THEIR HEADS EVEN BEFORE THEY CAN USE THEIR FANGS. ISLAMISTS ARE UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE.

Nothing new here. Remember the Chinese at Los Alamos under Clinton?

What does the USA get out of this?

Fewer seats for Americans to occupy in NASA education.

Special treatment for people who have a supremacist political ideology above Americans.

The blurring of the line between state and religion.

"...which was previously reserved for US citizens."

This Change is Obama approved, especially since it is still unclear whether or not he is in fact a US citizen himself.

Send them to the moon, then they can prove Mo didn't split it.

It's just like Mohammed Atta, et al, getting their flight training. Crashing aeroplanes into buildings is so outdated now, so they're planning on moving up to spaceships.

"engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering"

What historic contribution? Even the so-called Arabic numerals are actually Indian in origin. The much lauded Islamic contribution is largely mythical.

"Barrack Obama's recent advocation of increased collaboration with the Arab world in the realms of science and technology"

That has to be one of Obama's daftest ideas.
Who are we fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Muslims
Who carried out the attacks on 9/11? Muslims
Who have since carried out over 15000 terrorist attacks worldwide? Muslims
Who's trying to subvert our countries and destroy Western civilization? Muslims
Who is the next big war going to be against? Muslims

So Obama's brilliant idea is to help them improve their science and technology. A good parallel would be Franklin D Roosevelt advocating cooperating with Nazi Germany on the Manhattan Project, or Eisenhower with the Soviet Union on developing the H-bomb.

Now,Barack Hussein Obama has again shown his true colors! Are we going to elect him again? He must be kicked out of white house.We must not repeat our mistake again folks.
This news item about NASA is so digusting to read!

Ah Jeez! Glad I'm getting out of Houston. Guess I'll have to cancel my rocket ride. I really don't feel like becoming a new kind of casualty. Check those gaskets twice NASA.

Ah Jeez! Glad I'm getting out of Houston. Guess I'll have to cancel my rocket ride. I really don't feel like becoming a new kind of casualty. Check those gaskets twice NASA.

Ah Jeez! Glad I'm getting out of Houston. Guess I'll have to cancel my rocket ride. I really don't feel like becoming a new kind of casualty. Check those gaskets twice NASA.

We had some Danes - of both sexes - who were not accepted as ESA astronauts last time there was an opening for applicants. They were fiercely competitive, experienced and clever people.
I bet they stare with some wonder at these three kids being granted access to NASA in the name of outreach.

I simply can't wait for the same opportunity to be extended to Israeli students - you know, the ones who actually contribute mightily to the US' military expertise, technology etc.

The appeal of reaching out to Muslims is of course that Obama is educating his desired people, the Muslims, to take over all the resources and "kingsdom" of the USA - he is readying them for power by taking resources away from the US and its satellites, weakening them from the inside and redistributing their wealth to those who threaten it.

That's the way I see it anyway - already Muslims have inside information and the power that comes from being in the top offices of the Administration. Their job is to make the world good for Muslims and to rule it. All this outreach is jizya.

thats how it starts my dear friends...

First step: a muslim is hired to nasa...
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-Thirteen's step: Nasa employee blows himself up in spaceshuttle and many killed.

Good job americans good job!!

The problem with the american constitution is that it applies to a moderate society. You cannot apply the principles of the american constitution to terrorists, coz then they will start asking for rights that will send the US back another 2000 years.

To me one of the real values of Jihadwatch is the opportunities it offers the readers to bring their more intimate knowledge, experiences and corrections to the wider public in the comment section. The one by Eastview here is very much to the point.

NASA chief Charlie Bolden said it: "Perhaps foremost, [Obama] wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering." The White House later denied this, but this news item confirms Bolden's contention that Obama told him to make outreach to Muslims his priority at NASA.
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Yep. The irony—as noted by several posters above, especially Eastview-is that Obama has done a great deal to hamstring the already much diminished space program.

The shuttle program is dead. Like Dumbledore's Army, I'd love to see a mission to Mars, or at least a resumption of Moon missions, but this is unlikely to happen in the immediate future.

So—the space program is just a shadow of its former self, but there's plenty of money for Muslim "outreach". What madness.