"It's fairly pathetic when an initiative boasting of one's achievements has to borrow those of other people."

Thats Islam for you.

Posted by: Elric66 at November 19, 2007 4:22 PM

Frank Zappa was most certainly not a Muslim.

He was the anti-dote...

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at November 19, 2007 4:31 PM

Oh, you'd be surprised what you can learn about Vincent Mohammed Zappa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa
http://www.zappa.com/flash/wazoo/index.html

It is as if the Yellow Pages were anticipating future histories by Muslim authors. "Yes, we have always been a productive and creative Ummah, especially Moon Unit."

Dear Yellow Pages:

Do you mean for people to hear your name and say, "What $&@*"? Just askin'.

Posted by: StillBreathing at November 19, 2007 4:51 PM

Weasels ripped my flesh...

Posted by: MP at November 19, 2007 4:53 PM

Brown shoes don't make it!
Quit school, why fake it?

Posted by: MP at November 19, 2007 4:54 PM

What contribution are those?

Nothing like

Isaac Newton - Calculus (along with Leibniz), Calculus of Variations, Gravitational laws, Laws of motion, prisms.
Kepler - Discovered motion on bodies was ellipitical and laws of motion.
Daniel Rutherford - discovered Nitrogen
Alexander Fleming - discoverer of Penicillin
Joseph Priestley - Isolated Oxygen
Michael Faraday - discovered Benzene, electrolysis, contributed to electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
James Clark Maxwell - contributed to understanding Magnetism

and that has not even begun to scratch the surface. I dont know of Muslim contributions to Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Geology etc, at least nothing that is indisputable, because all they are interested in is the Quran.

They cant claim to have invented Chess because China and India make claims there and there is nothing in Arabic records that say otherwise.

Their contribution is near zero. It is pitiful.

Posted by: UK Infidel Lover at November 19, 2007 5:02 PM

Here is the enlightening website of Irfan Yusuf, an activist lawyer and Muhammedan agit-prop Downunder, aptly named 'Planet Irf'-

http://planetirf.blogspot.com/

in it he claims not only Maimonides as ' Shaykh Musa bin Maymoun al-Qurtubi' but also predicts the fall of America (check the flags on the right side of his blog) within 50 years, and the fall of India within 60 years. The green hal-moon with star-flag probably means the world within 60 years (it can't be Pakistan, because the Islamo-perversion could hardly be more extreme enywhere) Yusuf makes a living furthering Muhammedan causes in Australia.

Claiming the achievements of the Islamo-Christians under the Islamic system as their own is really beyond stupid, it is mental as anything.

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at November 19, 2007 5:06 PM

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySeOBozQG98

Posted by: no-one at November 19, 2007 5:19 PM

Sununu is a Lebanese Christian. Mitchell has spoken often of his Jewishness.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at November 19, 2007 5:31 PM

According to this article (http://www.myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=michael_debakey), Michael DeBakey is no muslim:

His parents were Lebanese immigrants Raheehja DeBakey and Shaker Morris, and Dr. DeBakey attributes his 70-plus years of service to their teaching by word and example "the highest principles of honesty, integrity, compassion, service and altruism." Though the doctor scoffs at the notion that his Lebanese heritage ever served to impede his ascent to the most respected echelon of medicine, there can be no doubt that his traditional Christian upbringing still reverberates in his thoughts and deeds. “The traditional values of honesty, integrity, compassion and service are still relevant. I believe all of us should strive to make some contribution, however small or grand, to society and should observe The Golden Rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you) in living our lives. If that rule were universally observed, we would have attained that precious goal – peace.”

Posted by: kamala at November 19, 2007 5:33 PM

And Joseph Abboud is also a Christian, married to a Jewish wife in fact!

http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/movies_theater_tv_and_music/Interfaith_Celebrities_Paul_Wolfowitzs_Arab_Girlfriend_and_The_Naked_Brothers_Band.shtml?rd=1

In the United States, Christian Arabs and Jews have been marrying in reasonable numbers for decades. Famous men's clothing designer Joseph Abboud , who is a Christian Arab-American of Lebanese descent, wrote in his autobiography that his American Jewish wife's family and his family had many cultural affinities and politics was never an issue between them. He added that he never had any problem being an Arab in the American fashion industry, which is heavily Jewish.

Posted by: kamala at November 19, 2007 5:42 PM

I saw this at LGF earlier.

After noting that many of the 'Muslims' in that YELLOWPAGES.travel/SearchBoth.com video are NOT Muslims, I sent a note to their 'trouble desk'.

Within in minutes, I received the following response:

We have received a lot of complaints about the MuslimHeritage site. We will be taking the site down within the next few hours until our board makes a decesion.

Thank you.

YellowPages Team

The video has been pulled, at those two sites, but is still available at YouTube.

Posted by: PRCS at November 19, 2007 5:56 PM

UK Infidel Lover said:
Their contribution is near zero. It is pitiful.

Actually, they didn't even contribute Zero as usage of zero predates "Arabic" numbers.

Posted by: Romney at November 19, 2007 5:58 PM

It gets more weird. The Yellow Pages site in question says they donate 15% of their profits to charity. When you follow the link (http://us.searchboth.net/charity/) to find out what charities they support you find four:

Red Cross
American Cancer Society
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Israel Defense Fund

Posted by: Mazama at November 19, 2007 6:12 PM

FYI: Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1940 to Francis Zappa (born in Partinico, Sicily) who was of Greek and Arab-Christian descent, and Rose Marie Colimore who was of three quarters Italian and one quarter French descent.

Politically, Zappa was a self-proclaimed "practical conservative", an avowed supporter of capitalism and independent business. He was also a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion. Zappa was a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship, and his work embodied his skeptical view of established political processes and structures. Although many assumed that he, like many musicians, used drugs, Zappa strongly opposed recreational drug use.

Zappa was married to Kathryn "Kay" Sherman (1960–1964; no children), and then in 1967 to Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death in December 1993 of prostate cancer. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa handles the businesses of her late husband under the company name the Zappa Family Trust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

Zappa was no Muslim and opposed everything that Sharia stands for!

Posted by: Provoslavni at November 19, 2007 7:22 PM

How about in the UK where there is the Muslim Yellow Pages aka Muslim Business Directory.

http://www.tijarapages.com/aboutus.asp

Posted by: Armoured Passionfruit at November 19, 2007 8:20 PM

Sheik Zappa:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=zappa+sheik+yerbouty&spell=1

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at November 19, 2007 8:28 PM

You can invent all you like, but you have to exploit the invention. The chinese invented gun powder but used it to make fireworks, Europeans used it to make guns. The muslim world may have invented algebra, but what did they do with it?

Posted by: pak152 at November 19, 2007 10:53 PM

Why is it necessary for corporate entities to laud a particular creed? Not ethnicity, creed. That which Muslims collectively share is their creed; not, strictly speaking, culture or origin.

What relevance does theology have in such an aggressively secular society such as ours?

This campaign looks like WHITEWASH; sounds of INDOCTRINATION; feels of DECEPTION; tastes of POISON; and smells of HYPOCRISY.

Posted by: John C at November 20, 2007 12:11 AM

Somehow the entire thing, video and all, seems to me to be one huge joke!

No matter who made the video, it's too funny for words that these supposed islamic heroes actually aren't muslims.

And the press article reeks of sarcasm:
"The three-minute emotional rollercoaster takes you through the trials and tribulations of Muslim-Americans before leading into the vast contributions Muslims from around the world have made."

It had to have been done on purpose - even muslims aren't that stupid, are they?

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at November 20, 2007 7:03 AM

How many of you remember this from Dumb All Over

It says in the book:
"Burn 'n destroy...
'N repent, 'n redeem
'N revenge, 'n deploy
'N rumble thee forth
To the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
'Cause they don't go for what's in the book
'N that makes 'em BAD
So verily we must choppeth them up
And stompeth them down

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/09/you-are-dunb-all-over.html

Posted by: shiva at November 20, 2007 9:10 AM

ImNoDhimmi said

It had to have been done on purpose - even muslims aren't that stupid, are they?

Maybe, maybe not, but they obviously thought we were.

Posted by: special_guest at November 20, 2007 5:12 PM

"I dont know of Muslim contributions to Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Geology etc, at least nothing that is indisputable, because all they are interested in is the Quran."

Muslims as Muslims living within and drawing exclusively from Islamic culture have made relatively few significant scientific contributions.

However, to be clear, the pre-Islamic Persians and Babylonians and Egyptians did make astronomical and mathematical contributions that were significant in the ancient world. Furthermore Muslims individuals working within alternative cultural frameworks have made significant strides.

Muhammad Yunus, for example, pointed out an extremely serious disconnect between economic theory and real-life lending practices, and pointed out the economic problems and human suffering these led to, and further managed to create (microlending) institutions to address these problems.

I'm pointing this out because clairity on the distinction between certain Muslims as individuals and Islamic culture as a culture, an integrated mutually reinforcing set of practices and beliefs (centered on Islamic traditions and texts), is important for confounding strawman claims of "racism", and for accounting for what examples of Muslim scholars today, working within or educated within a non-Islamic framework, there are or might be (biologists, doctors, etc.).

Posted by: hope_and_justice at November 25, 2007 10:15 PM