The Muzzies Are Going To Mars!

[pErvinalia]

A United Arab Emirates spacecraft rocketed into blue skies from a Japanese launch centre Monday at the start of a seven-month journey to Mars on the Arab world's first interplanetary mission.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/science/news/u ... rt-2265561

Will they build a mosque there?

[NineBerry]

Yes. They'll build a mosque. The US mission to Mars is striving to open a Mc Donald's while the German mission to Mars wants to build some Autobahns across the planet.

[pErvinalia]

Imagine the land speed records you could set there on an autobahn!

[pErvinalia]

Wait till the Israeli mission to Mars. Then the shit fight will really begin!

[JimC]

If they ever get there in person, they're going to need some sophisticated programming to line up the prayer mats to face Mecca...

[Seabass]

Are they going to put a jihad on the Martians?

[NineBerry]

Muslims banking on a holiday to Mars will have to cancel their plans after religious clerics took the time out of their schedule to issue a decisive decree on space travel.

A fatwa issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE claimed a trip to the red planet was prohibited by Islam, local English-language daily Khaleej Times reported Wednesday.

“Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to life, and that can never be justified in Islam,” the committee said. “There is a possibility that an individual who travels to planet Mars may not be able to remain alive there, and is more vulnerable to death.”

The committee warned that those who participate in the “hazardous trip” will likely die for no “righteous reason,” causing them to be liable to a punishment of those who commit suicide.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/variet ... atwa-says-

[pErvinalia]

[NineBerry]

It's not stupid. It's a relevant ethical question. Can we send people to Mars when we can't get them back home and they have no means of survival for more than a short time.

[JimC]

If they want to go, with full knowledge of the situation, why not? Weird proscriptions from an imaginary god mean fuck all...

[pErvinalia]

yeah

[rainbow]

We in Africa wouldn't want to go.

There is so little atmosphere.

[Hermit]

It's not stupid. It's a relevant ethical question. Can we send people to Mars when we can't get them back home and they have no means of survival for more than a short time.

The hypocrisy is enormous. What do those Islamic scholars say about the encouragement for volunteers to blow themselves up in the name of Allah? Oh, right. They are rewarded with 72 virgins in their afterlife.

Fuck off, Sunni Muslim ethicists.

[NineBerry]

It's not stupid. It's a relevant ethical question. Can we send people to Mars when we can't get them back home and they have no means of survival for more than a short time.

The hypocrisy is enormous. What do those Islamic scholars say about the encouragement for volunteers to blow themselves up in the name of Allah? Oh, right. They are rewarded with 72 virgins in their afterlife.

Fuck off, Sunni Muslim ethicists.

for no “righteous reason,”

[pErvinalia]

Spreading Islam (to Mars) is surely a righteous reason.