Monday, January 22, 2007

"Critics interrupt speaker's talk on Islam":

...Muslims have lived alongside people of other religions for centuries and that much of the religious-based tension in the world today is created for political purposes. Violence in the name of Islam is "a real corruption of the understanding of the religion," Mourad said, adding that every society has a segment of miscreants.
"Diversity of interpretation in Islam":
Islam is like a clear stream, with well defined characteristics, which is the same everywhere. But the soil over which the stream flows can be very varied. Moreover, in each case, the water will take on the color of the shores, the sand or the earth which forms its bed.
"Dark matter and gravitational lensing":
Scientists have confirmed the existence of Dark Matter. This mysterious Dark Matter provides the bulk of gravity that holds galaxies (not the regular matter that forms stars and planets). This Dark Matter has weird collision properties (collisionless). Simply put: we cannot see Dark Matter nor collide with it but we can detect its gravity. According to the Qur'an, we cannot see nor collide with Jinn but they have weight: [Quran 55.31] We [Allah] will settle your affair, both you of weight (man and jinn)