Westerners
Find $cience in the Quran!
This article was published in The News
From Bangladesh April 18, 2001
The
tales of Bucaille
and Moor, two
occidental
charlatans
By
Abul Kasem
The new Mullahs and other Islamists feel
very happy whenever they find occidental (western white person) talks
in favor of their faith (Islam).
This is especially true when these western people try to
associate Qur’an and Hadith with anything resembling an inkling of
scientific truth. For the
last 25 years or so, the Islamists have found an infidel supporter
(pseudo) of their faith. He
is none other than Dr. Maurice Bucaille who was in France in 1920.
At one time, he was the chief of the surgical clinic of the
University of Paris. In
1976, he published a book entitled "The Bible, The Qur’an and
science.” Ever since
its publication, the Islamists have found a great sanctuary in this
book whenever the question of science and Qur’an is raised.
Bucaille’s writings have become not only a source of
inspiration for them, but it also has become their principal source to
confront the secularists who point out the various ambiguities,
inconstancies and the unscientific nature that one could find
scattered all over Qur’an.
In his book, Dr. Bucaille discusses the
following main topics as revealed in the Qur’an
The Creation of the heavens and the Earth
Astronomy and the Qur’an
The Earth
Human Reproduction
If one reads Dr. Bucaille's discourse on
these topics, it does not take much intelligence to note the twisted
logic and his clever selection of only those verses that serve his
purposes. There is not
enough space in this short essay to deal with each and every aspect of
Dr. Bucaille's topics. One
striking point however is that he only elucidates a natural phenomenon
as described in the Qur’an and interprets that natural phenomenon as
the scientific explanation in the Qur’an. (For details to a rebuttal
to Dr. Maurice Bucaille please visit www.freespeech.org/rationalthinking
or refer to "The Qur’an and the Bible in the Light of History
& Science" by Dr. William Campbell, publisher Middle East
Resources 1992). This is absolutely unacceptable to anyone who has the
slightest idea what scientific knowledge is all about.
Take for example the case of "water
cycle.” Dr. Bucaille
tries to depict that the Qur’an had the advance knowledge of this
natural phenomenon before anyone could discover it.
This is totally untrue. Water
cycle is really an observable natural fact that is understood even by
an illiterate and uneducated (in modern science) person.
This water cycle consists of the following phases. (1) Water
evaporates from the land, lakes, rivers; seas etc. (2) Water is
transformed in to cloud. (3) Cloud gives rain. (4) The rain
replenishes the water in land. (5) Water runs to the rivers, lakes and
then to the sea. The
cycle then repeats. There
is no doubt that this phenomenon was clearly understood even by the
pre-historic people that enabled them to invent the system of
agriculture, which is largely dependent on this cycle.
Today, even the primary school children are aware of this cycle
of nature. To say that
the "water cycle" is something that is discovered by the
Qur’an is simply laughable and reveals nothing but the real motive
as to why Dr. Bucaille is so inclined in pleasing the Islamists.
Let us look for some clues to this matter.
Dr. Bucaille was appointed the family
physician of the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
King Faisal introduced him to the Islamic religion and its
source, that is, the Qur’an and Hadith.
At that time, Dr. Bucaille was a stereotyped westerner who had
prejudicial ideas about Islam and the Qur’an.
He was acutely aware of the perceived de-humanized face of
Islam outside the Islamic world.
This charlatan found a great opportunity to make good money out
of this situation. He
thought that if only he could please the Islamists by writing a few
good things about Islam he can have a good share of the petro-dollar
that was pouring in Saudi Arabia.
This will be better than remaining as a lowly physician to the
king. So he learned the
Arabic language and started to study the Qur’an and wrote the book,
"The Bible, The Qur’an and Science".
Money—he did make and plenty of it.
This is due to the fact that almost all the Islamic countries
have translated his book in their languages and it is a must read book
for the new Mullahs. Also,
consider how much blessings he had received from all the oil rich
Seikh doms. For all of these, he is deeply grateful to his paymaster,
the Arabs. In fact, in
the lengthy introduction part of his book he writes "The debt of
gratitude I owe to the late King Faisal, whose memory I salute with
deepest respect, is indeed very great: the fact that I was given
signal honour of hearing him speak on Islam and was able to raise with
him certain problems concerning the interpretation of the Qur’an in
relation to science is very cherished memory. It was an extremely
great privilege for me to have gathered so much precious information
from him personally and those around him".
Dr. Bucaille's book leaves one with the
impression that he (Dr. Bucaille) is convinced that Islam is the
truest religion of all on earth and the Qur’an is indeed the words
of Allah. Now when a
person is so much convinced in a faith we naturally expect him to be a
Muslim, isn't it? But Dr.
Bucaille is not so stupid to follow this path.
Having digested the Qur’an and the Hadith thoroughly he knew
what fate awaits him (and his family) if ever he changes his mind on
Islam (death for apostasy in Islam).
He also realized that he could make more money if he does not
convert to Islam. Therefore,
until today, he is a Catholic. What
bugs him to become a Muslim and follow the Qur’an, which he claims
to be so divine and scientific? Being
a man of science why does not he lend his ultimate allegiance to the
scientific Qur’an? What
answer the Islamists have for this enigma of Dr. Bucaille?
Qur’an has
114 Suras and thousands of
verses. Why Dr. Bucaille deliberately chooses those verses that deal
with a handful of natural phenomena?
He very cleverly chooses to quote the following benign verses
"There is no compulsion in
religion" (2:256)
"(God) has not laid upon you in
religion any hardship" (22:78)
This is deliberately done by him to give
an impression that Islam is very merciful and tolerant religion. This
is aimed at people who have very little knowledge about the real Islam
(especially the western people). Does not this tactic sound like the
tactics used by our new Mullahs?
Dr. Bucaille cleverly avoids the political, social and the
violent parts of the Qur’an. Are
not political and social matters scientific too?
After all, there are such subjects as political science, social
science, etc. Dr.
Bucaille writes that he could not find any verse in Qur’an that is
against science. If we
have to believe this blatant lie emanating from his pen, then
Hilla
marriage must be scientific.
Mut’a
marriage must be scientific.
Hijab
must be scientific.
Having four wives at any time and plenty
of concubines (possessions of the right hand) must be scientific.
Cacophony of azan
(loud prayer call, a chief source of noise pollution in Islamic world)
must be scientific
Tayammum
(ablution with dirt and stones) must be scientific
Slavery must be scientific
Death for apostasy must be scientific.
Islamic genocide (like Bangladesh) must be
scientific.
Cutting off hands and feet for petty theft
must be scientific.
Using stones to relieve oneself must be
scientific.
Drinking the Camel’s urine must be
scientific.
Beating the wives to make them obedient
must be scientific
Killing infidels must be scientific.
All the actions of the Talibans must be
scientific.
And so on.
If the Qur’an is scientific then why not
Kama Sutra (Sanskrit
treatise to love making) scientific too?
Why not the Bhagabat
Geeta, Monu’s Sanghita,
the Vedas and the Mahabharata scientific?
If the Hindus could generate billions of petro-dollar they can
surely employ many western professors to do just that.
When I was in high school, I had a devout Hindu teacher. He
always used to say that Hinduism is the basis of all science. How?
He used to give examples of the mention of Vimana (air craft),
Garuda (probably flying saucer or space ship), Trishul Chakra
(probably rotary space station), Agni Baan (ballistic missiles), etc.,
to prove that the Hindus knew how to make those things, which are very
common in to-days world. 'Do
not these examples prove that Hinduism is more scientific than any
other religion?' he used to say.
We just used to nod our head in agreement.
That was just to please him and to ensure a good mark in his
subject. Dr. Bucille is
there to please the Arabs, the Islamists and to make money; tons of
it. He also employs
another tactic. He declares that his own faith (Catholic Christianity)
is not as scientific as Islam is.
What a great news for our new Mullahs!
There can be no news sweeter than this, no news happier than
this, no news more pleasant than this.
Nonetheless, he actually fools the Islamists by throwing dust
in their eyes. Never does he covert to Islam.
But Mullahs are too docile and cretinous not to see his
stratagem. How sad!
Dr. Keith Moore
Another great sanctuary for the Islamists
and the new Mullahs is the embryologist Dr. Keith Moore.
He was the former President of the Canadian Association of
Anatomists and professor Emeritus, Department of anatomy and cell
biology, University of Toronto. When
he was offered a faculty position in King Abdul Aziz University, right
away he smelled the sweet scent of petro-dollars and plenty of it in
Saudi Arabia. He worked with the embryology committee of the King
Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah. His job was to interpret the many
statements in the Qur’an and Sunnah referring to the human
reproduction and prenatal development. One wonders why the Saudi
Government has to employ an infidel to interpret the Qur’an when
there are no shortages of Islamic scholars for this job. Why did not
the Saudis have qualified people from the 'Islamic brother' countries?
How come the Saudis cannot trust the interpretation of the
Qur’an from their 'brothers'? The
answer lies in the fact that the Arabs practice overt and covert form
of racism (call it Islamic racism if you would like).
Any dark skinned people who have worked in the Arab countries
will attest to this fact. There
are separate pay structures and perks for the whites and the dark
skinned people in most Arab countries.
A statement from a dark skinned people no matter how much
education and knowledge he or she does have is not acceptable to the
Arabs. Whereas, a sworn
statement by a western white skinned person with a very little
expertise is totally acceptable to them.
As you know, bulks of American Muslims are blacks.
However, the Arabs will seldom employ a black American to do
the job of Dr. Keith Moore even though the Black American may be as
competitive as a white American.
The white population knows this craving by the Arabs for white
recognition. And they
take full advantage of this weakness of the Arabs to make more money
out of them. Any way, let
us hear what Dr. Keith Moore had to say to please his paymaster.
At a conference in Cairo, he presented a research paper and
stated:
"It has been a great pleasure for me
to help clarify statements in the Qur’an about human development. It
is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from
God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not discovered until
many centuries later. This
proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God or
Allah".
Bravo!
What could be a better statement than this from an infidel to
please the Islamists! Notice that he never mentioned whether the
statements in the Qur’an are scientific or not. He simply stated
what the Islamists wanted to hear, took his money and went home.
He never converted to Islam.
He just fooled the ever-gullible Islamists and the new Mullahs
and laughed all his way to the bank. In the West, they say that a
sucker is born every minute. I
have to say that as long as Islamists are there they will produce
gullible folks ad infinitum
and in turn these new simpletons would be taken for a ride by the
clever ones such as Maurice Bucille and Keith Moore.
(For a full rebuttal of Dr. Keith Moore's findings visit
www.freespeech.org/rationalthinking/)
Readers, have you ever noticed that most
of the white skinned westerners that wrote anything good about Islam
have either been on the enormous pay roll of the Arabs (petro-dollar)
or were engaged by them (the Arabs) to do research work on Islam (in
the infidels land) with a fat budget.
This type of research works on Islam is very seldom properly
supervised or checked by an independent third party. The only thing
that matters is the white skin of the researchers. There are plenty of
talented researchers in many Islamic countries. But the petro-dollar
does not reach them. Why?
This is because the researchers are mostly non-whites even
though they (these researchers) are good Muslims and are dedicated to
their work. Many a time I
have received unsolicited research findings on Islamic matters from
some obscure Universities in countries like US, Canada, U.K.
The researcher's name involved is always the name of an
Anglo-Saxon or similar race. At
one time, I received a research finding that was designed to prove
that the Islamic halal method
of animal slaughter is better than the western style of slaughter
(that is, halal meat is
more scientific than non-halal meat).
They used EEG machine to measure the pain threshold and pain
duration of the animals when slaughtered in the halal
way and compared that with the haram
(forbidden) way of animal slaughter. Now, it does not take a genius to
guess what was the conclusion of this research. If a genuine
researcher reads these research reports, he will simply dump that in
the dustbin. Because the report breaks all the rules in designing,
conducting and presenting research findings. These research reports
are aimed at the gullible new Mullahs who feel great in the scientific
authenticity of their belief. The
western researchers are very clever.
They do the science a
priori. They know what the Islamists want.
So they do the research backward; that is, they draw the
conclusion first (according to what the Islamists want) and then they
conduct the research experiments in such a way that the conclusion is
confirmed. This route of a
priory research makes Islamists happy.
The researchers are happy and money pours in to the starved
faculty of the obscure University in the West.
This is what I call is a ‘Triple Win situations’
(win, win, win situation).
Just imagine how much money the Islmists will throw if ever the
research findings go against what the Islamists want to hear!
When will the new Mullahs learn the lesson
that these infidel western white researchers on Islam have only the
dollar sign in their mind and that they just want to fool the
Islamists and make more and more money out of them?
Islamists views are delusional.
All these testimonials from some charlatan occidentals are not
going to change the gross inanity and incongruities in Islamic holy
book Qur’an. The Arabs
do not realize it that within the next century all that black gold
buried beneath their soil would be exhausted.
When that happens (believe me, that would happened one of these
days), how would they finance another Maurice Bucaille or Keith Moore?
There is still enough time to give up on this shoddy practice
of hiring testimonial givers from the West.
Qur’an, which was compiled more than 1400 years ago, should
stand on its two feet. The
book may have served its purpose to Arab society then.
But like any other book, its time has expired.
All the testimonials from Nobel Laureates will not be able to
bring back its original lustre, which may have dazzled the eyes of
Seventh century’s Arab Bedouins.
The sooner the modern-day Islamists realize it, the better it
is for prejudicial Islamic world; because, they have a lot to catch
up.
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Abul Kasem pens his essay from Sydney,
Australia where he teaches civil engineering.
His e-mail address - [email protected]
For a response to the ridiculous claim
that Quran is scientific please see the following website. http://answering-islam.org/Responses/It-is-truth/
To read more about Dr. Bucaille and
whether he became a Muslim please check this site. http://www.answering-islam.org.uk/Campbell/bucaille.html
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