Agensi Angkasa Islam???

The racist Utusan wrote:

Agensi angkasa Islam bakal ditubuh

Oleh Helmi Mohd. Foad

PUTRAJAYA 9 Dis. – Sebuah agensi angkasa Islam bertaraf dunia akan ditubuhkan bagi meningkatkan keupayaan umat Islam dalam bidang teknologi angkasa lepas.

Angkasawan Negara, Datuk Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor berkata, cadangan penubuhan agensi itu telah mendapat sokongan angkasawan Islam pertama, Putera Mahkota Arab Saudi, Putera Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.

Menurut beliau, dalam pertemuannya dengan anak raja Arab Saudi itu, Putera Sultan mahu agensi itu dianggotai oleh lapan orang lagi angkasawan Muslim termasuk beliau sendiri.

“Putera Sultan menyahut tinggi cadangan menubuhkan agensi angkasa Islam melibatkan angkasawan Islam dari seluruh dunia.

“Baginda berpendapat perlu digabungkan sembilan angkasawan Islam dari pelbagai negara terlebih dulu supaya mereka bersatu mengubah minda negara Islam agar lebih tertumpu kepada bidang sains dan teknologi,” katanya dalam e-mel kepada Utusan Malaysia dari Arab Saudi di sini hari ini.

Sheeesh....another spin by our government to the rural folks?

What everything an Muslim initiates have to coin with the word "Islam"?

What does a religion have to with science or a space program?

"agensi itu dianggotai oleh lapan orang lagi angkasawan Muslim termasuk beliau sendiri"

by a merely 9 persons so called "angkasawan", heading this space program, you can fly to the moon?

“Baginda berpendapat perlu digabungkan sembilan angkasawan Islam dari pelbagai negara terlebih dulu supaya mereka bersatu mengubah minda negara Islam agar lebih tertumpu kepada bidang sains dan teknologi,”

Well you are the richest among them, just cross your finger that your oil money do not end up buying more bombs and gun for the terrorist. You should use your oil money to help poorer muslim nations to build more hospital and school instead off investing in the US of A.

If a Muslim country wants to excel in science, there are many ways to it, a space program is the most rubbish. How about building more Universities with high calibre professors as a start? Formulate a policy that encourage R & D? Partnership with Top universities in the world like Caltech and MIT?

Islam was once a great religion who champion science and knowledge, but unfortunately, nowadays it no longer so. Muslim has to let go its pride and back to the basics, change their current backward mind sets and embrace modern principles in life. Only then one will become a progressive culture and hunger for knowledge.

Muslim world are hunger for recognition! Rethorics like an "Islam" Space Agency will not do any good! The world communities will give recognition to a true "Astronauts" not an "Angkasawan" or "Space Tourist"