Muslim creationists tour France denouncing Darwin

[The Straight Story]

Muslim creationists tour France denouncing Darwin

Four years after they first frightened France, Muslim creationists are back touring the country preaching against evolution and claiming the Koran predicted many modern scientific discoveries.

Followers of Harun Yahya, a well-financed Turkish publisher of popular Islamic books, held four conferences at Muslim centers in the Paris area at the weekend with more scheduled in six other cities.

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Harun Yahya, one of the most prolific publishers in the Muslim world, gave proudly secularist France a scare in January 2007 by mass-mailing thousands of free copies of his "Atlas of Creation" to schools and libraries across the country.

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Koran-based creationist views are traditional in the Muslim world. Advised by U.S. creationists, Harun Yahya has developed a series of books that have helped spread this view in recent years beyond the Middle East, including to France, whose five million Muslims make up Europe's largest Islamic minority.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/16/us-islam-creationism-france-idUSTRE74F3GC20110516

[ZombieHorde]

1. Very, very dumb. nt

[eleny]

2. Can we get them plane tickets to South Carolina?

The popcorn concession alone could put us in the chips.

[Fumesucker]

3. Edited for enhanced accuracy..

Advised by U.S. creationists cretins, Harun Yahya has developed a series of books

[GodlessBiker]

4. Fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians have a lot in common. Scary people.

[upi402]

7. ^+1,000 n/t

[sharesunited]

8. Muslims and Jews have very much in common which they are loathe to admit!

[GodlessBiker]

17. This is true. I should have added fundamentalist Jews have a lot in common with their Muslim and

Christian counterparts.

[cali]

18. yeah, but Jews are pretty inconsequential in all this

First of all, they're less than 1% of the world population and secondly they don't even weigh in on issues like creationism.

[applegrove]

13. +100

[Canuckistanian]

5. "Advised by U.S. creationists"

Say no more.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Never keen on facts, mountains of evidence and reality..nt

[madinmaryland]

9. whack-a-doodle-ism is universal. nt

[lbrtbell]

10. Religious fundies of ANY stripe are batshit insane. - n/t

[robinlynne]

11. jsut loike creationist christians.....

[tishaLA]

12. I have a devoutly Muslim friend with whom I've spoken about evolution

and he really is just like a fundy Christian about it.

He misstates what Darwin says. He's never read Origin of Species and doesn't want to watch a terrific PBS documentary about the Intelligent Design/Evolution debate. He has no idea what a "theory" means in the scientific community. He tortures logic.

The worst part is that he's a smart guy. So let's just say that we no longer talk discuss evolution...or we could never remain friends.

[Codeine]

14. I have a much simpler philosophy.

I do not have creationists as friends.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Ah, dumbfuckery truly knows no borders...

...sigh.

[StarsInHerHair]

16. how NICE of Christian creationists to advise & help these Muslims...

nt

[FLPanhandle]

19. Explaining things through science instead of woo....

I can see why the religious don't freak out about Evolution. Doesn't matter which religion obviously.

[WatsonT]

20. Feel free to reject science, just please be consistent

no medicine or cell phones or any sort of modern technology that allah didn't throw your way directly.

[hifiguy]

21. Such ignorant asshattery...

:eyes: Clearly, it knows no sectarian bounds. Religulous fundamentalism of any and all sorts is a profound mental disorder and should be treated as such.