Islam and the Fleas of My Cat

That my cat has no fleas is the work of Ibn Sina; Paracelsus, bombastic father of pharmacy; Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry; Pasteur, father of bacteria; Fischer, father of proteins and carbohydrates; and countless other Europeans and Americans

But no Muslim inventors; not since Ibn Sina, known as "Avicenna" died in A.D.1037.

The followers of Avicenna the Muslim claim some credit. But Avicenna's cat had fleas. Avicenna's descendants contributed nothing and all of his cat's descendants have fleas.

A drop of something on top of his head once a month frees my cat of fleas. Avicenna is angry that all Muslim cats still have fleas. Muslims do not invent new insecticides, nor build autos, nor land airplanes.

Centuries ago the Muslims invented nothing, called it "zero," and changed mathematics and called it "algebra." But zero was as far as Islam got. Mohammed, may he and his cats rest in peace, left instructions from God, sent by way of the Archangel Gabriel, telling Mohammedans to learn.

Muslims -- and Christians and Jews as well -- disdain instructions from God. In the Koran, Allah told them to learn. They learned "zero" and stopped. In the words of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir bin Mohamad: "The Industrial Revolution was totally missed by the Muslims". The Christians and Jews, acting on their own, learned the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and Democracy -- and learned how to keep fleas off my cat. But flea-less cats are dangerous

Muslims fear that the West with its flea-less cats will take the hoods from their women and destroy their failed world. Muslim men must hide their women. Both Muslim men and Muslim women are willing to die to protect the head scarves of the women. The children of the Prime Minister of Turkey are too Muslim to attend colleges in Turkey. The girls insist on wearing head scarves and the boy was educated in Muslim schools. They must attend colleges in the U.S.A.

A fifth of Humankind follows Islam: some 1.3 billion human beings - one person in five. But only 370 patents were issued to people in Arab countries in twenty years. In South Korea -- a nation of 48 million -- during that same period, 16,000 patents were issued. No more than 10,000 books were translated into Arabic in the last 1000 years. That many is translated into Spanish each year.

The Arab world governments have the lowest voice of the people and the lowest accountability of any region of the world. There is no Arab democracy. There is only one Islamic democracy: Turkey, where CNN televises airplanes racing along the Golden Horn and democracy is maintained by frequent military coups.

My cat tells us much about Islam and the anger of suicidal Islamists.

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But terrorism is not the main event. The main event is the conversion of Europe into a Muslim continent. If you dare, read Oriana Fallaci. The angry Italian journalist who has interviewed the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, Arafat in Palestine, and Gaddafi in Libya among many others. Read any part of her trilogy: The Rage and the Pride, The Force of Reason, and Oriana Fallaci interviews herself with its postscript,The Apocalypse



link to the Next Cat Tale :

Muslims and My Cat Who Would Be King


My cat thanks Rudyard Kipling for this history.
but would like a better ending.