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posted at 10:20 pm on August 12, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“According to Islamic teaching, I discovered, the foetus becomes a full human being only when it is “ensouled” at 120 days from the moment of conception, and so the research at Royan on human embryonic stem cells is not seen as playing God, as it takes place at a much earlier stage. Thus, while there is much that the west finds unpalatable about life under Islamic rule, when it comes to genetics they are not held back by their religious doctrine.”
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Funnest headline…evah
Lance Murdock on August 12, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Islamofascists don’t respect life??? Shockah!
jgapinoy on August 12, 2008 at 10:24 PM
??
jaime on August 12, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Some people think it’ll create a miniature black hole that will grow by absorbing matter around it and eventually engulf our planet. Based on my limited knowledge of black holes, they need to be a certain size or they’ll just disintegrate due to leaking too much Hawking radiation for their size.
The scary part is that AFAIK scientists didn’t actually know this until AFTER they tested it.
“sure, it might annihilate our
planetsolar system but what the hell*pushes button*”Darth Executor on August 12, 2008 at 10:30 PM
heh. the brits are so screwed.
Bush ackbar!
elduende on August 12, 2008 at 10:30 PM
On topic: it looks like some muslims and most atheists finally found a common point of agreement: annihilating human life that doesn’t pass some stupid arbitrary age. Huzzah.
Darth Executor on August 12, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Figures. Islam is wrong about everything else. It’s not surprising that it would be wrong about this too.
Islam doesn’t hold it’s followers back from lot’s of things. Like killing rape victims, honor killings, hanging gays, blowing themselves up and killing innocent fellow muslims in the name of Allah, etc..
Guardian on August 12, 2008 at 10:32 PM
ALALALALALALA! *Fires
AKXM8*Darth Executor on August 12, 2008 at 10:33 PM
It’s harder to move past ethics when you actually have them.
emailnuevo on August 12, 2008 at 10:33 PM
So when did they make up this 120 days after conception business? I mean who knew?
bloggless on August 12, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Damn! Allah must be weeping. I thought that Mohammad was Islam’s “perfect man”, so I would have thought that HE would have been much more precise than just a rough number like 120 days. Maybe something like 118 days, 21 hours and 8 minutes? I dunno, more precise than 120 days anyway.
When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane, not in all things, but in religious matters. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic—for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on August 12, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Not anything like their vast military arsenal I’m sure.
4shoes on August 12, 2008 at 10:36 PM
………………….. he calls himself a scientist?
Seven Percent Solution on August 12, 2008 at 10:37 PM
No, no it doesn’t. If you just let sperm swim around, or just let an egg hang out, they’re not going to become human. Ever.
On the other hand, a zygote/fetus/whatever will certainly become a human. It’s called biogenesis, a word you won’t come across in learning how to write poorly for British newspapers.
emailnuevo on August 12, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Plus women are only considered to be worth half of a man, you can have four of them as wives, live sanctified as a pedophile, and are allowed to force mentally defective people to become suicide bombers, popularly known in the faith as ‘martyrs’.
Islam- what a religion!
profitsbeard on August 12, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Guys! Guys! Guys!
It’s the Hadron Collider.
Watch that spelling!
Leopold Stotch on August 12, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Ah, the wonder that is Islamic science and technology: it takes my breath away.
snaggletoothie on August 12, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Oh, right.
jaime on August 12, 2008 at 10:54 PM
It sure is a drag being held back by my religious doctrine, since what I really want to do is kill babies.
TexasDan on August 12, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Words fail me.
SouthernGent on August 12, 2008 at 11:01 PM
“Don’t touch it! It’s the history eraser button you fooool!”
-Ren
Rhinoboy on August 12, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Yes, the fabled Muslim advances in technology, which include, um, wait a minute… let me think now… it’s coming to me…
Okay, besides suicide bombers and EFPs, I’m stuck.
Meryl Yourish on August 12, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Snicker… snicker… I’m so immature.
I don’t care if it’s a spelling mistake.
Frozen Tex on August 12, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Well, I dunno know about him but Mohammad Himself was a GREAT scientist.
hari:V7B71N590 “The climate of Medina did not suit some people so the Prophet ordered them to drink camel urine as a medicine.”
Bukhari:V2B21N245 “A person slept in and missed the morning prayer. So the Prophet said, ‘Satan urinated in his ears.’”
Bukhari:V4B54N516 “The Prophet said, ‘If anyone rouses from sleep and performs ablution, he should wash his nose by putting water in it and then blow it out thrice because Satan has stayed in the upper part of his nose all the night.’”
MB4 on August 12, 2008 at 11:23 PM
What? You didn’t consider what a huge advance in technology we find in the Bhurka? It’s virtually an invisibility cloak for the muslim woman terrorist bomber!
Vntnrse on August 12, 2008 at 11:40 PM
Go on! Your making that up, aren’t you? :)
OldEnglish on August 12, 2008 at 11:47 PM
So let me get this straight. A fetus can’t be killed after 120 days because it is a person, but its bearer, according to Sharia Law, can be beheaded for violating Islamic doctrine?
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 12, 2008 at 11:56 PM
No. I got it some place quite some time ago and saved it. I don’t recall where I got it but it may have been JihadWatch. If it’s not true I got fooled myself, but can anyone really make this stuff up?
MB4 on August 13, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Yup, you got it straight. Charming little religion, isn’t it?
MB4 on August 13, 2008 at 12:04 AM
Um, you’re supposed to be looking on the bright side. If you happen to be a female fetus, you have 120 days–nine years to be safe from the predations of Mo. That’s a pretty full lifetime, looking on the bright side.
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RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 12:05 AM
I’ve read the same things. I think at least a couple of them were in the Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam.
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 12:08 AM
While our scientists struggle with ethics, the Islamic world forges a head, a couple of hands, assorted arms and legs…intermingles them with bomb parts…and straps the whole mess to a child.
(sanitary sewers, 24/7 electricity, motorized transportation, and running water can wait until Islam works its way forward from the 10th to the 19th century…)
landlines on August 13, 2008 at 12:13 AM
Religion and Government and Science should never be either mixed, stirred, or combined.
The first two elements are disastrous compilations when in contact with each other and tend to cancel each other out thus leaving science impotent, sterile and void of life.
Kini on August 13, 2008 at 12:15 AM
Well, there goes my black-hole punchline.
soundingboard on August 13, 2008 at 12:15 AM
I for one welcome our new Genetically Engineered Islamic Overlords.
soundingboard on August 13, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Oh…That’s very different. Never mind!
backwoods conservative on August 13, 2008 at 12:19 AM
You have just insulted the prophet, may peace be upon him! That is forbidden by Islamic law. It is a major act of disbelief and he who commits this is considered a dissident of Islam, because it falls within the framework of supporting disbelievers over Muslims. You can not act against the will of Allah and side with the infidels and their Hotair stooges.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM
RACIST!!!
OldEnglish on August 13, 2008 at 12:23 AM
Screw him, and the other one too. I was accused of blasphemy in an Apple store by one of their employees and lived to tell the tale.
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 12:24 AM
You didn’t!? You didn’t mention Microsoft, did you?
OldEnglish on August 13, 2008 at 12:26 AM
We have almost with our Saudi donations bought up a controlling interest in Apple so you better not come back Infidel! And your fellow Hotair stooges better never show their faces their either!
One of the great dreams of Islam will soon come true. Muslims dream to see flags that read: “There is no God but Allah” fluttering in the wind over all Apple stores.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Ha ha, that blasphemy never even entered my mind. I just pointed out how they were trying to cheat me. (and they were)
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Fine with me. I’ll buy their stuff online.
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 12:39 AM
Microsoft is next on our list Infidel just as soon as we get more contributions from our Saudi supporters we will get controlling interest in it too that way we will be able to put something in its software and get the names of all the infidel Hotair stooges.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM
And I thought I was a bad boy for walking into a Home Depot wearing a Lowe’s uniform shirt.
backwoods conservative on August 13, 2008 at 12:48 AM
We will soon get control of them too infidel and “There is no God but Allah” will be fluttering in the wind over them too, Allah willing.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 12:51 AM
Hey are you guys putting out RFPs for the design work on those flags? I could sure use a little affirmative action over here.
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 12:58 AM
No need It’s so full of holes that you could just walk right in. :)
OldEnglish on August 13, 2008 at 1:02 AM
What is RFP infidel? Request for peace? You can have peace but you must submit to Allah first and pay a tax for the rest of your infidel life.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 1:02 AM
So Islam is okay with sacrificing the innocent…
I never would have guessed.
John on August 13, 2008 at 1:02 AM
Oh thank you infidel we will get on that you may have just saved us a lot of Saudi money that we can put to other good uses.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 1:17 AM
{I think he meant Raunchy Fart in his Pajamas] please don’t tell him I typed this.
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 1:19 AM
Allah knows all and sees all infidel you are in how your former president say in deep doodoo up to your neck now infidel. You had best convert soon and maybe Allah in his mercy will spare you.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 1:26 AM
This is terrible. We just added ‘ensoul’-ation to our house. Is it alive now?
blogagog on August 13, 2008 at 1:28 AM
How’s his nose? LOL
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 1:32 AM
Sorry, that was a rude question. Everybody knows Satan’s camping in there overnight.
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 1:37 AM
Why do I think the “Christians” here will use any cures the Muslims discover if the need arises?
alphie on August 13, 2008 at 1:37 AM
His blessed nose say that you are wearing cheap Old Spice aftershave.
Aleph on August 13, 2008 at 1:39 AM
darn, dead thread.
RushBaby on August 13, 2008 at 1:40 AM
Its OK as long as you cut off their heads first
disclaimer: Author is against embryonic stem cell harvesting. Author is also against clubbing baby seals.
Man, this is a rough subject. I cannot detach embryos or foetuses from their humanity. I love baby kittens too
Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts
entagor on August 13, 2008 at 2:00 AM
Why do I think it’s because you’re an elitist tool who looks down his/her/it’s nose at those folks?
SuperCool on August 13, 2008 at 3:14 AM
It’s about when the first movements of a fetus are detectable by the mother. This is traditionally called “quickening“, and is a common standard, historically, for determining when a fetus should be considered fully “alive.” Interestingly, the Catholic church has made use of this standard in the past as well; as late as the middle of the 19th Century, the Catholic standard was a similar 116 days.
Big S on August 13, 2008 at 3:25 AM
Bwahahahahahahaha….Whatever. Allah can go to Hell, I’ll stick with Christ.
Tim Burton on August 13, 2008 at 5:01 AM
Its good that they’re forging ahead. They only have about 2,000 years of catch up to work on.
Is there an asshat of the day award?
Syd B. on August 13, 2008 at 7:17 AM
Its good that they’re forging ahead. They only have about 2,000 years of catch up to work on.
Is there an a$$hat of the day award?
Syd B. on August 13, 2008 at 7:17 AM
So how exactly is this collider supposed to benefit mankind anyway?
abcurtis on August 13, 2008 at 7:22 AM
I’ve read that historically, the church determined that “ensoulment” occurred at 90 days. I’ve also read that for most Orthodox Jews, a fetus is not considered a human until delivery.
Now I’m curious to know Hindu and Buddhist teachings about abortion.
JiangxiDad on August 13, 2008 at 7:43 AM
Large Hardon Collider?
Akzed on August 13, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Because you’re ignorant and somehow believe they’ll find cures we haven’t already found and apparently don’t know that stem cells can easily be obtained without any ethical dilemmas.
Esthier on August 13, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Yes,
And, he’s a hypocrite on his deathbed:
Bukhari:V5B59N735 “We poured medicine in one side of the Prophet’s mouth and he started pointing to us, meaning to say, ‘Don’t pour medicine in me.’ When he felt a little better, he said, ‘Didn’t I forbid you to pour medicine in my mouth.’ We said, ‘We thought it was because of the dislike patients have for them.’ He said, ‘Let everyone in the house be given medicine by pouring it in his mouth while I am looking at him.’”
Revenge !!!
And then,
Bukhari:V5B59N730 “Aisha said, ‘It was one of the favors of Allah towards me that His Apostle expired in my apartment on the day of my turn while he was leaning on my chest and Allah made my saliva mix with his at his death. Abd-Rahman entered upon me with a Siwak in his hand and I was supporting Muhammad against my chest. I saw the Prophet looking at it and I knew that he loved the Siwak, so I said, ‘Shall I take it for you.’ He nodded. It was too stiff for him to use and I softened it as He nodded his approval. He cleaned his teeth with it, crying, “Death has its tortures.”‘”
Tabari IX:183 “Aisha said, ‘Muhammad rubbed his teeth with it more energetically than I had ever seen him doing before. Then he put it down, and I found him getting heavy in my lap…and he died.’”
I guess, if someone had poured camel’s piss in my mouth, I’d be brushing my teeth too…Imminent Death notwithstanding.
franksalterego on August 13, 2008 at 10:15 AM
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