The Left Stuff: NASA’s Muslim Outreach
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden first mentioned the challenge given him by President Obama back in February, but the story started making the rounds again thanks to Bolden’s laughably patronizing interview with Al Jazeera:
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.
“When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,” Bolden said in the interview.
Obama insists on spreading the wealth around the world, but now, since we’re perilously close to being out of wealth, NASA is charged with redistributing self-esteem? I can already see the Sally Struthers PSA’s: “For the price of only a cup of Apollo 11 feelgood, you can help convince a child over here that their country had something to do with it. Please help!”
Many Muslims youths in the 1970′s didn’t consider being an astronaut to be a viable career option thanks to that infidel Jim Henson and his Pigs in Space, but even still, wouldn’t it be cheaper to Photoshop an Islamic flag on the moon and just tell them they’ve alredy been there? If you’re going to lie, lie big!
There were and are Muslim astronauts — how in the world were they motivated to get the training without Obama’s manufactured inspiration?
In February, Bolden offered a clue about what this is really about:
Specifically, he talked about connecting with countries that do not have an established space program and helping them conduct science missions. He mentioned new opportunities with Indonesia, including an educational program that examines global climate change.
So it’s a combination Muslim outreach/global warming study, which most likely means that Muslim astronauts will be spending considerable time orbiting Al Gore while all parties involved figure out how to stick a landing in America’s wallet (body waste will be jettisoned over the homes of Trey Parker and Matt Stone). Hopefully NASA weeds out any astronaut applicants who are only concerned with learning how to take off and don’t seem too concerned with how to land.
Before anybody in the administration starts using this as inspiration for Muslims, let’s get it out of the way right now: Neil Armstrong never converted to Islam.
My guess is that this program will be discontinued, ending in a crescendo of frustration once everyone realizes the maddening futility of zero-gravity stonings.
Comedy Central is expected to have absolutely no comment on the above story.
Update: Don’t miss Charles Krauthammer’s take on this subject.
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
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Actually I’m surprised Obama didn’t make NASA’s top priority to reduce it’s carbon footprint and develop a zero-emission rocket run on battery power.
NASA was a major co-conspirator in the global warming scam too.
Since Bolden now claims that NASA is no longer capable of anything more than subspace projects, it should be renamed the Federal Aviation Administration and merged with the other agency of the same name. We don’t need two government agencies flying airplanes.
Personally, I think that Petreaus will do a much better job of improving relationships with the Muslim world. My money’s on him.
WOT but very interesting for people like me who hate the one-party system. Wall Street contributions to the DNC are down 65%. Wall Street contributions to the Republicans? No change. If we can’t get rid of these entrenched corrupt weasels this year (McCain in AZ e.g.) we never will.
So,the only eligibility test to be a Muslim Astronaut is the ability to count up to 72 Virgins?
I’m curious to know what positive contribution any muslim has made to science and/or space travel.
Seems they are all for separation of Church and state unless you are Muslim.
Its amazing how much damage one inept, but determined president can inflict. I understand Obambi, et al glee at the destruction they are inflicting on this Nation, They know that a great deal of it will never be repaired. The real fear now is for what consequences there may be to some of their actions, ecological damage, Israel’s destruction, Federal Courts subversion, the total destruction of the world’s greatest economy. We are in the hands of America’s sworn ememies.
NASA: ‘Dirka dirka dirka!’
Time to close down NASA. They have lost their purpose. How much money would that save?
Where is that unlimited intergalactic supply of virgins? Inquiring muslims want to know?
Any “muslim” contribution to science was coincidental to the rise of the mohammadens. Creativity collapsed shortly after.
The ISS Allahu Akbar…it’s 1,000 year mission? To go where none, but Mohammed and his flying horse, dared to venture! Looking not for enlightenment, but rather the planet where all those promised virgins are hidden away…in the name of science and mathematics. of course!
Too bad Moms Mabley is no longer with us, she could do a “Selecting the first Muslim Astronaut” bit.
I knew that obama was a socialist and this pretty well makes it certain that he is a closet Muslim.
NASA will be carbon free now that the Pixies are donating Pixie Dust to lift off the next generation of Space Shuttle, the USS Tinkerbell.
Personally, I find this sickening and I see no humor in it at all. I know it is Mr. Powers style to treat everything as a big joke. I guess that’s how “conservatives” speak truth to power these days, giggling like school girls. Pigs in Space. Ho, ho.
Here’s another take. “African americans,” not content with being a wholly-owned (96%) subsidiary of the democrat party, are now determined to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Islam as well. As was explained to me once by a gentleman of color, the only reason he didn’t convert to islam was because the Mohammedans forbade pork, and he loved his pork.
Fact: AA’s have hated the space program from the 60′s. If you have any doubt where all this is heading, ask yourself “What would Jeremiah Wright do?” and “What would Jeremiah Wright want?” Do you think Rev. Wright has any interest in any aspect of exploring the solar system? Now you have the answer.
I am curious as to what positive contribution islam has made to ANYTHING!
And why are WE trying to improve relations with the muslim world. THEY need to start acting like humans and improve relations with US.
And did you notice in the interview there was no mention of actually putting an emphasis on, you know, space research?!
Ralph Cramden: ‘To the moon Alice!’
I posted this on the previous thread–it goes here.
so jsmid–I agree…
Our government wants to make Muslims hell-bent on destroying us feel better about themselves. Google is honoring a dead bisexual communist on her birthday. Illegals are lining up to boycott the MLB all-star game with no fear of being arrested. Just another day in Obama Land.
If you aren’t registered to vote and reminding every family member, friend and neighbor to do the same then you are surrendering this country.
I know he and the other “progressives” have an overpowering interest in exploring the money in our bank accounts… At least as long as there is an economy in which to spend it. Then I guess they will issue Obama Boodles. Vodka and potato rations for all!
We have got to drive these people from office long before 2012. We can’t hold out that long.
Dr Fatwa Jihad has pioneered the GGPS and sucessfully flew a 6 by 3 Kerman carpet over 70 feet. Goat Gas Propulsion has been on the drawing boards for several years but with the advent of new and improved food stuffs for Goats, the thrust to weight ration has been vastly improved. Dr Fatwa intends to fly from Tehran to Medina later this year.
Surely I’ve mixed up my medications and am hallucinating badly. Is this some sort of sick joke? The U.S. only capable of sub-space projects? NASA doing “Muslim Outreach” and Global Warming”? Maybe if I have a little lie-down, this will all go away.
Following many years of careful study, Islamic scholars were the first to discover that the head doesn’t work as well when it is detached from the body.
Ya gotta know that kind of stuff.
If NASA sent all of the Muslim extremists to Saturn, they would be my friends for life.
http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/2010/07/crash-obamas-war-on-science-historyetc.html
Another possibility besides continuing the global warming scam: rocket technology. This will give the Administration the excuse to just hand over willy-nilly any rocket technology the Muslim world wants from us, to make missiles to destroy us and the Israelis.
I do not believe that flying carpets have yet acieved orbit.
On a more serious note, it is sobering to contemplate the fact that Bolden rose to the rank of Major General in the USMC.
stillontheroad–they have already exhausted the coconut-laden African swallow possibilities. They have moved on to goats.
Just one question??? Where the HELL did this MORON come from, and where was he on 9/11/01
Wouldn’t this overt attempt to influence Muslim culture be a violation of the Prime Directive?
Oh ya, my ultimate fantasy, Lt. Uhura wearing a burka.
Which are what exactly? Muhammad with his army of bandits plunderered the civilized world. Scientific advancement doesn’t emerge from under a sword over your head.
These people are just nuts. If you want to talk about the Persians or the Sumarians or the some others whose contributed to math and science back BEFORE they were forced to submit to Islam then I have no objection giving them credit where it is due.
As was discovered recently, the number one greatest contributor of all time to mathematics and the true father of Calculus turns out to be Archimedes who envisioned the ‘limit approaching zero’ and infinity almost two thousand years before Sir Isaac Newton.
The first place where people used zero in math, (other than as a place holder), was in India, (and maybe the Mayans?). (It wasn’t the Arabs..)
On the contrary, I’d shut down both NASA and the FAA and replace ‘em both with the original National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA).
Among other things, I’d require all non-military space launches to be contracted to private entities as well as following Canada’s lead and privatizing the Air Traffic Control system.
Danceswithdachshunds:
Right there with you — I do believe India was the first place to use the concept of zero in Math — Now as for the Muslim contribution – I do believe it was the convert or die concept.
So lets get this straight. The space program is winding down. We’ve decided to let others take the lead. There’s little left we can afford and have finally decided to stop beating a dead horse and yesterday’s technology i.e. the space shuttle. We have no plans nor challenges nor future technology captivating our minds and our scientist.
But hey, you Muslims out there, we’d like to extend an invitation to you to jump on board?
This is going to mend fences?
Their contribution to math and science involves counting dead infidels.
Obama wants to hand over NASA technology and knowledge for two purposes.
1) The publicly state purpose of getting islamists to like us.
2) The sub-agenda not publicly stated of making America a second fiddle player to a dominant muslim world.
Everything Obama has done has been consistent with this goal.
Uh, has this site been cross-linked to The Onion?
Next, will Obama task the American Nazi Party with improving relations with Israel? Or how about asking the American Communist Party to lead the effort to improve constitutional literacy in school children? Or how about asking NAMBLA to take over the Boy Scouts of America?
What a humiliating end to NASA. This Sock Puppet should be hounded from Office and banned from ever holding any position above Septic Inspector. No, I take that back, from any position above Snipe Hunter.
Septic Inspectors and Snipe Hunters doth protest.
I will agree that we owe some of our scientific terms and our decimal system of math to muslims. Things like azimuth and zero were not part of the roman knowledge.
However, that info was gathered after the fall of muslim Spain. Basically it’s, “What have you done for me lately?”
A: Death, destuction, misery, torture, fear, etc.
In other words, socialism. But this time, with (a phony) religion!
Let me guess, Obama wants them to go clean the footprint on the moon off as well as take down the flag and then he can apologize for the arrogance of America putting the flag there in the first place…
Luckily Obama has cancelled any further trips to the moon, so maybe we wont have to worry about any of those things.
Ironically, Islam did gather analyze and synthesize a great deal of knowledge in the distant past. And then Islam went into another tailspin and went all 7th century on its scientists and the rest is history. These people quite literally never learn…
The translation is…
“Voters are figuring out what we’re up to. Back off a bit so they stop asking questions. When the heat is off, we can resume our mission at full speed.”
Tell me this isn’t a dangerous path for America.
Phil said at #2: Since Bolden now claims that NASA is no longer capable of anything more than subspace projects, it should be renamed the Federal Aviation Administration.
The foremost mandate that Obama placed on NASA to build Muslim self-esteem is obviously the eye-popping sound bite here. But when you take a second look, it is hard not to conclude that this low-earth orbit comment is the more serious piece of it.
The Muzzie outreach bit is mostly BS, although it is important in showing where Obama’s head is. But it is hard to imagine that this ludicrous bit of rhetoric would have much to do with what people at NASA actually did.
But the view — presumably seriously held — by the NASA Administrator that the USA is dramatically less capable in space than it was forty years ago and that to do anything of consequence it must reach out for help from other nations, this is…stutter…stammer…spittle…well, it ain’t exactly what Vince Lombardy would say to ~his~ team. It is what an unpatriotic, defeatist loser would say…Mr. Can’t-Do. Pathetic. This guy should be fired. That, of course, is a small matter, though, compared with the need to fire his anti-American, internationalist, socialist, Kenyan/Indonesian boss.
The muslim world is being given a participation trophy so it can feel good about itself. How progressive of Bho to bestow an award for failure. The muslim world stinks on ice because of the thugs who look at everything through the prism of the koran. They have created such a narrow vision of what is acceptable for the believers to do that the only thing one is free to do is to die in the name of islam. How lofty; how inspiring; how productive. What losers. How pathetic a culture is when its claim to fame is destruction and suicide. How aspiring it is to grow up only to be blown up. A NASA award is hardly needed for those who become airborne with out a rocket. Don’t need math or science to succeed in the muslim world, just detonators and C4 which result in their version of holy smoke.
NASA = Not About Space Anymore.
Islam had the first Astronaut.
Mohammed left from the Dome of the Rock on a Great White Rocket Horse.
Or maybe it was a bad acid trip?
Mushrooms more like…
just more deliberate wrecking and perverting of our institutions that are the bedrock of our society. Obama the Communist-in-chief wrecks and ruins everything that is and has been American, that he touches. and he wrecks it on purpose, as fast as he can, with as much deception and fraud and theft and lying as he can use to control us.
Let’s not jump to conclusions and act stupidly till all the facts are known.
Muslims bring decades of Aviation and Rocketry experience to NASA: Iraqi SCUD Missilery, Hamas skills launching tricky Katyusha Rockets and there is the precision Civilian Jet Piloting as demonstrated on 911 that must be considered here.
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Sorry, Elijah beat him to it.
Not true! Mohammed’s lift-off location was not specified. It wasn’t until hundreds of years later that they started claiming the launch location was Jerusalem.
Obambi is certainly doing all he can do to ensure a one-term presidency.
Now if the Idiot American Electorate can just overcome the Media Flackery that will do everything in it’s power to get this Socialist-Hologram-In-A-Suit re-elected, then the nation *might* be safe again.
How about the Muslim world taking on the mission of coming up to the 21st century?
MM;
Ya ought link the ‘trackback’ story about our ‘Missile Defense Agency’ emblem that was changed to a Star & Crescent to this story.
This regime’s agenda is becoming more clear every day…
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http://www.qando.net/?p=8954
Obama may regret his little tantrum with the Supremes at SOTUS.
From the form NASA Administrator under Bush.
Muslims have contributed to the space program. They have discovered time travel. It says so in the Qur’an. Soon, the western world will be sent back to the stone age when the 12th Imam piglet pops out of a sow.
“He also said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.”
So this is like everyone feeling bad that the little runt of a nothing kid never gets picked to play on either side so after the game is over, one team decides to pick the little runt who has two left feet so at least he can say he was on someone’s team.
And if this somehow makes the Islamic world or us feel better, well I have a bridge I’ve been trying to sell on Craig’s List…….
I think Obama should be the first Moslem in space.
If I remember right, my favorite president (Ronald Reagan) also reached out to the muslim world with rockets…I think he started with Libya…
I don’t mind if we reach out–as long as it’s to ‘stink palm’ them.
I decided a long time ago not to go through life like this — though I’m flattered and somewhat surprised to know that a far more serious, angry, furious display of outrageous outrage in this particular blog post could have single-handedly brought down the Obama administration. I’ll try harder next time.
“Tee hee hee…”
Shirley you jest….
Nope, not goin’ there! Beenthere’s about to lose it as it is…
For what it’s worth, Doug, I think of it more as ‘tittering’, not ‘giggling’.
‘Chortle’ will also do in this case.
“….their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,”
Wonderful. Can any one provide a list of muslim contributions in these area for the last….oh, lets say few hundred years?
Yes he is jesting…………. and don’t call Doug, “Shirley.”
Evidently, they are pretty good in the practical application of division (severing body parts) and multiplication (having lots of kids to use for PR, human bombs and shields).
Not sure about engineering other than bashing together an IED here and the social engineering in which they engage in the nations to which they have immigrated and on which they insist on infecting with their culture.
That may win you a Nobel Peasy Prize of the day.