NASAs “Foremost Task” To Make Muslims “Feel Good”, Says Head Of NASA

July 5, 2010 at 5:12 pm

It appears that NONE of the top three missions that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been tasked with have anything to do with space.  Witness see this interview with head of NASA, Charles Bolden on Al Jazeera (via Weasel Zippers and with their bold)

“Bolden: I am here in the region its sort of the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s visit to Cairo and his speech there when he gave what has now become known as Obama’s “Cairo Initiative” where he announced that he wanted this to become a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world.

When I became the NASA Administrator before I became the NASA Administrator – he charged me with three things: One was that he wanted me to re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, that 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 predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”

In TheEye’s day science was all about exploration, discovery and advancement. These noble goals were shared by Muslim scientists and engineers…until about the 17th Century, when it all went a bit quiet.

Now it appears that our scientists are best employed telling other people that that they used to be good. Marvellous.