Nasa and Islam

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1080246
Muslim pandering 'not good for the country'
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 7/8/2010 5:00:00 AM
A conservative media watchdog thinks the mainstream media has virtually ignored the NASA administrator's recent outlandish statement that the "foremost" mission of the space agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden made that announcement on the English language version of Al Jazeera, which Jeff Poor of the Media Research Center's Business and Media Institute believes was a questionable move in and of itself.

He questions how Bolden described space travel as an international collaboration in which Muslim nations must be a part.

"My suspicion is it's just one of those PC things that he was directed...from the Obama administration to do, trying to send a new message," Poor presumes. "I just don't think that's good for the country."

He feels that the strongest condemnation of Bolden's comments perhaps came from syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on the Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier.

"This is a new height in fatuousness. NASA was established to get America into space and to keep us there," Krauthammer argued. "This idea to feel good about their past [and] trying to make achievements is the worst combination of group therapy, psychobabble, imperial condescension and adolescent diplomacy."
He further suggested that the NASA administrator should have been fired for deviating from the intended purpose of NASA.