Someone once
insisted to me that a Muslim space shuttle made it to the moon before
the American one did. She was a teacher I had in college, and she
thought that fact proved that Muslims were superior to Americans. I
asked her when that was and what the mission was called and she just
kept repeating the word for “space shuttle” in Arabic and
eventually I gave up.
Some time
later I got on the internet and did some Googling in both languages
and found out that there was a rumour that Neil Armstrong heard the
athan on the moon and converted to Islam there. (The rest of this story is under a cut).
