Update: NASA's Muslim outreach

Commentary on the current state of science in the Muslim world.   Also includes a link to an update on the status of the professor in India whose hand and part of his arm were hacked off due to a false perception that he had insulted The Prophet.   And an effective  cartoon reminder concerning this issue.   How soon we forget.   In related news: Another Fatwa against a cartoonist.

Might be time for another Obama charm offensive with the so-called Muslim world.

Commentary (even if not news) is starting to leak out in parts of the mainstream media. For example, Krauthammer includes it in a discussion of President Obama's selective modesty:

It's fine to recognize the achievements of others and be non-chauvinistic about one's country. But Obama's modesty is curiously selective. When it comes to himself, modesty is in short supply. . .

Mons Charen earlier expressed some thoughts along the same line - that the NASA Muslim self-esteem program indicated hubris on the part of a President who really believes that he that he has significant power to influence how Muslims he doesn't even know think and feel about themselves. (And that this power of his could counteract the influence of Saudi-funded madrassas.) Michael Ramirez lands on target again.