NASA’s new project-the Flight to Islam?

July 9, 2010- DAILY BRIEFS #2

High Flight

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds — and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,

I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew.

And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Beyond their obvious significance as a focus of popular enthusiasm for the advancement of scientific knowledge and research, NASA’s programs have been an expression of America’s spiritual ambition- a symbolic way for the heart of a free and religiously diverse people collectively to reach out to their Creator, acknowledging as presence and purpose the God who made us free.

Now comes the word that one of the main purposes of NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is to reach out to the world’s Muslims. And here I thought NASA was supposed to reach out to the stars (or at least the other planets in the solar system.)

I wonder whether, like Obama’s famous obeisance to the Saudi monarch, this superficially idiosyncratic (FYI: a polite way of saying ‘idiotic’) adjustment in the mission of the U.S. Space program is the Obamanauts’ coded message to the cognoscenti of the Muslim world conveying Obama’s dedication to the Islamization of the U.S. No longer will NASA’s work express America’s desire to be close by as “the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.” Instead, NASA will lead the way to the merciful tutelage of Muslim brethren who will proclaim the radiance of the Prophet and the wondrous goals of sharia (Islamic law).

Except as a spiritual metaphor it’s impossibly hard to see what relevance the space program has to making nice with the scientific elite of governments among which even the supposedly friendly ones (like the Saudi monarchy) spend enormous sums financing fundamentalist mosques and Islamic centers that are the frequent incubators for terrorism’s new recruits.  Of course while we’re learning to love the Prophet and lower our heads before his Sword of Justice, our brethren from the Islamic countries might pick up some useful tidbits with which to sharpen its scientific edge.

On second thought, it all makes perfect sense.  Why waste time and money reaching for the moon and stars when the star and crescent is so handy?

Related posts:

1. ‘Despicable him’, aka NASA’s fractured fairy tale

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