Via MEMRI:
In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, prominent Egyptian geologist and cleric Dr. Zaghloul Ragheb Al-Naggar called Egypt’s ruling party “illegal and unconstitutional,” and said that the Old and New Testaments were “forgeries” and that “the things the Old Testament says about the creation of Man are completely wrong.”
Dr. Al-Naggar, who holds a Ph.D. in geology from Wales University, U.K., is a member of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of Egypt, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has lectured at universities in the West, including the University of Wales, as well as at universities in Arab countries. In 1977-78, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of California.
He is a member of the board of trustees of the Bridges Foundation, which states on its website, http://www.bridgesfoundation , that its vision is to “… train Muslims on becoming public speakers and presenters of how to present Islam as a culture and way of life to their fellow non-Muslims.” He is also chairman of the Committee on Scientific Notions in the Glorious Koran and Purity Sunnah Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo and a fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences.
According to the English section of Dr. Al-Naggar’s website (www.elnaggarzr.com ), the website’s aim is, inter alia, to “invite non-Muslims to think of the Scientific Facts which came in The Glorious Koran and the Pure Prophetic Sunnah [one] thousand and four hundred years [ago that] science is still discovering,” “to respond to the directed suspicions [of] Islam & Muslims,” and “to [make] know[n] Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar [to] the West and informing them [of] his science & neutralism.”
Following are excerpts from the Al-Jazeera interview with Dr. Al-Naggar, which aired August 9, 2008, as well as a response to his statements which aired on Al-Hayat TV on August 28, 2008.
To view this clip, go to http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1849.htm.
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September 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Ohhh…
There go 2000 years of Christian scholarship, and 3500 of Judaism in one swipe.
smoothstone Says:September 19th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Leave it to Muslims to deny everyone else their religion so that they could purloin one for themselves.