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Professor who claimed ancient Malays could fly loses university post (townflex.com)

submitted 1 week ago by stermy4u@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The earliest flight legend in Islamic history is Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi, and even with historical records whether it has been successful is still a topic of debate among historians.

Claiming an earlier flight without any historical record to show as proof is a really dumb move.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ancient Malays would be pre-Islamic, since Islam is Medieval.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah but also fanatics to a degree. So to claim something like this is both being a heretic in eyes of islam and untrustworthy in eyes of teaching community. Stupid move.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

Isn’t there a flying horse in the Quran?