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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1689)9/12/2011 4:48:52 PM
From: Brian Sullivan7 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
Type the words "nasa islamic outreach" into any search engine for the background.



To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1689)9/12/2011 4:52:27 PM
From: Brian Sullivan3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
These are the kind of bureaucrats that Obama has selected to run the US government.
Now do you understand why we can hardly wait until Novemeber 2012.

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

Published July 05, 2010



Shown here is NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. (YouTube)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, 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 dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.



To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1689)9/12/2011 5:19:55 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie5 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
1. What's this "Islamic outreach" stuff?
abcnews.go.com
A few days ago, in Cairo, Bolden told Al Jazeera that when he became the NASA administrator, President Obama charged him with three things: "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; 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 dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering — science, math and engineering."

2. I think I'm going to change my mind about that statement I made about you thinking well of your fellow man.
I think I am very realistic about my views of my fellow man. Some have a solid foundation of values. Others have flexible values that change with how it benefits them most.