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| | '''Theo van Gogh''' was an outspoken Dutch film director and columnist.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3974179.stm Gunman kills Dutch film director] - BBC News, November 2, 2004</ref> Born in 1957, he was called Theo after his uncle Theo van Gogh who was a resistance fighter executed by the Nazi occupiers during WWII. |
| '''Keith Leon Moore''' (born 5 October 1925 in Brantford, Ontario) is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy, in the Faculty of Surgery, at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moore is associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences in the university's Faculty of Medicine, and was Chair of Anatomy from 1976 to 1984. He is a founding member of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/honored/moore.html|title=Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM|publisher=American Association of Clinical Anatomists|accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref><ref name="anatomy.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.anatomy.org/content/keith-l-moore|title=Keith L. Moore: My 60 years as a Clinical Anatomist|publisher=American Association of Anatomists |accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref> and was President of the AACA between 1989 and 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/pastpresidents.html|title=American Association of Clinical Anatomists – Past Presidents|publisher=American Association of Clinical Anatomists|accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref> | |
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| ==Islamic Embryology==
| | He was murdered on November 2, 2004 (aged 47), which, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings which were committed exactly 911 days after "[[September 11 Attacks|9/11]]", took place exactly 911 days after the murder of Pim Fortuyn. The killing was in retaliation for his short-film ''Submission'' which was deemed blasphemous due to its depiction of a woman with [[Qur'an|Qur'anic]] verses written on her flesh. |
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| Dr. Moore is notable as the only embryologist directly quoted by [[Islam|Islamic]] sources in an attempt to prove [[embryology]] as described in the [[Qur'an]] is [[Islam and Science|scientifically]] correct. In the 1980s he accepted an invitation by the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University to produce a special 3<sup>rd</sup> edition of his most successful [[Literature|book]] "The Developing Human" specifically for use by Muslim students in Islamic Universities. He was financially patronized by the Saudi royal family for the use of his name, and for no real additional work.
| | A Muslim cleric, Imam Fawaz, gave a sermon several weeks before the murder (in reaction to viewing the short-film) in which he called Theo Van Gogh a 'criminal bastard' and called on [[Allah]] to visit an incurable disease upon him.<ref>Barry Thorne and Claire Cavanagh - [http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/ima061031mc-redirected Did imam's sermon incite Van Gogh murder?] - RadioNetherlands, October 31, 2006</ref> |
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| The textbook he delivered to the Saudi Universities that commissioned the work is titled, "The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology with Islamic Additions."<ref> Keith L. Moore, Shaykh Abdul-Majeed A. Azzindani (1983), ''The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology with Islamic Additions'', Abul Qasim Publishing House (Saudi Arabia) ISBN: 0721664925 </ref> The base textbook was work that Moore had completed years before. He did nothing new for this new edition. The “Islamic additions” are actually the work of an Abdul Majeed al-Zindani, so it alternates chapters of standard science with Zindani's "Islamic additions".
| | Van Gogh's killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, shot him eight times as he cycled along a busy boulevard in broad daylight in Amsterdam. When he fell, mortally wounded, Bouyeri slit his throat, almost decapitating him, and then plunged two knives into his chest, one of them with a letter attached. |
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| ==Links to Islamic Terrorists== | | The letter by Bouyeri threatened Western governments, [[Jews]] and Ayaan Hirsi Ali- the writer of the film who also received several death threats and was given 24 hour protection by government bodyguards.<ref>Marlise Simons - [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02EFDE1638F934A1575AC0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Amsterdam Journal; A Graphic Film of Protest, and Cries of Blasphemy] - NY Times, September 27, 2004</ref> |
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| The co-writer of Moore's book is a leading militant Islamist named Abdul Majeed al-Zindani. He is the founder and head of the Iman University in [[Yemen]], head of the Yemeni [[Muslim Brotherhood]] political movement and founder of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah (one of the organizations that spearheaded [[Bucailleism]]), based in [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref>Josh Devon - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/205426/yemeni-sheikh-hate/josh-devon|2=2013-04-10}} Yemeni Sheikh of Hate] - National Review, January 7, 2003</ref>
| | In court Mohammed Bouyeri declared that he had murdered Van Gogh not because he felt insulted but "because of Allah".<ref>[http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/312 letter left on Theo Van Gogh's body by the militant Islamist killer was 'Jihad Manifesto' -A call to destroy America and all "unbelievers"] - Militant Islam Monitor, November 5, 2004</ref> |
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| Zindani served as a contact for Ansar al-Islam (Al), a Kurdish-based terrorist organization linked to al-Qaeda, has links to John Walker Lindh and Anwar al-Awlaki, and in 2004 the US Treasury Department published a press release stating that the United States had by executive order designated Zindani as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist".<ref name="Loyalist">[{{Reference archive|1=http://web.archive.org/web/20100314033922/http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/js1190.htm|2=2013-04-10}} United States Designates bin Laden Loyalist], United States Department of the Treasury, JS-1190, February 24, 2004</ref>
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| Interestingly, the Acknowledgments for the book recognize a number of “distinguished scholars” who supported the book with time or money. And number 6 on the list is [[Saifullah]] Shaykh [[Osama bin Laden]] (Zindani had a long history of working with bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders).<ref name="Loyalist"></ref>
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| ==Moore's Current Views==
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| The result of Moore's and Zindani's collaboration is not an academic book and subsequent editions omit and contradict the "Islamic additions". Reverting back to his previous description, they basically admit that the embryology in the Qur'an is a repetition of Greek and Indian medicine<ref>Keith L. Moore (Author), T. V. N. Persaud (Author), The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition, ISBN: 0721694128. Page 9</ref>
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| For example, in 1986 he wrote that "The drop or nutfa [in Surah 23:13] has been interpreted as the sperm or spermatozoon, but a more meaningful interpretation would be the zygote which divides to form a blastocyst which is implanted in the uterus ("a place of rest"),"<ref>A Scientist's Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur'an. Journal of the Islamic Medical Association, 1986: vol.18, Page 15-16 .</ref> but in the 8<sup>th</sup> edition of The Developing Human (published 2007), he writes that "Growth of science was slow during the medieval period... human beings [according to the Qur'an] are produced from a mixture of secretions from the male and female. Several references are made to the creation of a human being from a nutfa (small drop). It also states that the resulting organism settles in the womb like a seed, 6 days after its beginning."<ref>Keith L. Moore, T.V.N. Persaud, Chapter 1 - HISTORICAL GLEANINGS - The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 8th edition, 2007, ISBN: 978-1416037064</ref>
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| It is interesting with regard to Dr Keith Moore's sincerity (or lack thereof) to note that during his lecture tours to promote his book to Muslim audiences, he stated many times that he never left his Christian faith to become a Muslim<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IObOzMAQ3hI|Question to Dr. Keith L. Moore: "Are you are a Muslim?"] Youtube video uploaded by Islam Papers on 15th March 2012. Dr Moore conveniently excuses not changing from his Christian faith to embrace Islam.</ref>, and admitted that he had no knowledge of Arabic, that Muslim scholars had translated the Arabic words for him, and that he is not claiming his interpretations are accurate<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgGkHrLjD18|Dr. Keith Moore - Alleged "AUTHORITY" on Quranic Miracles] Youtube video by CaptainDisguise on 14th Oct 2012</ref>. Indeed, it is evident how badly he was misinformed about the Qur'an in the above quote regarding 6 days. There is nothing about 6 days in any statement about embryology anywhere in the Qur'an nor even in the hadiths.
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| This shows that Moore's previous statements on embryology in the Qur'an were not based on a sound knowledge of Islamic scriptures, but merely the result of patronage by the Saudi royal family.
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| J. Needham, a well known authority on the history of embryology and a reference cited in Keith Moore's books, has also dismissed embryology in the Qur'an as merely "a seventh-century echo of Aristotle and the Ayer-veda."<ref>J. Needham, Cambridge, 2nd edition 1959, A History of Embryology, page 77.</ref>
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| Moore's current CV does not reflect any involvement with Islam, the Qur'an or Islamic embryology. It also omits mentioning the 3<sup>rd</sup> edition of The Developing Human and its connections to Islamic terrorists. Nor does he mention his lecture in Saudi Arabia or any of his Islam-related activities in Muslim-majority countries.
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| In 2002, Moore declined to be interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on the subject of his work on Islam, stating that "it's been ten or eleven years since I was involved in the Qur'an."<ref>Daniel Golden - [{{Reference archive|1=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1011738146332966760.html|2=2013-04-10}} Western Scholars Play Key Role In Touting 'Science' of the Quran] - Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2002</ref>
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| *[{{Reference archive|1=http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/11/03/islamic-apologetics-in-the-int/|2=2013-04-10}} Islamic apologetics in the International Journal of Cardiology] ''- PZ Myers, Pharyngula, November 3, 2010'' | | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director) Theo van Gogh] ''(Wikipedia)'' |
| *[{{Reference archive|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Majeed_al-Zindani|2=2013-07-29}} Abdul Majeed al-Zindani] ''- Wikipedia, accessed July 29, 2013'' | | *[http://tundratabloids.com/2010/09/al-qaida-in-north-africa-ready-to.html Al-Qaida in North Africa Ready to Exchange Murderer of Van Gogh for Western Hostages] |
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Theo van Gogh was an outspoken Dutch film director and columnist.[1] Born in 1957, he was called Theo after his uncle Theo van Gogh who was a resistance fighter executed by the Nazi occupiers during WWII.
He was murdered on November 2, 2004 (aged 47), which, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings which were committed exactly 911 days after "9/11", took place exactly 911 days after the murder of Pim Fortuyn. The killing was in retaliation for his short-film Submission which was deemed blasphemous due to its depiction of a woman with Qur'anic verses written on her flesh.
A Muslim cleric, Imam Fawaz, gave a sermon several weeks before the murder (in reaction to viewing the short-film) in which he called Theo Van Gogh a 'criminal bastard' and called on Allah to visit an incurable disease upon him.[2]
Van Gogh's killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, shot him eight times as he cycled along a busy boulevard in broad daylight in Amsterdam. When he fell, mortally wounded, Bouyeri slit his throat, almost decapitating him, and then plunged two knives into his chest, one of them with a letter attached.
The letter by Bouyeri threatened Western governments, Jews and Ayaan Hirsi Ali- the writer of the film who also received several death threats and was given 24 hour protection by government bodyguards.[3]
In court Mohammed Bouyeri declared that he had murdered Van Gogh not because he felt insulted but "because of Allah".[4]
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