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Kalau Islam selalu dijadikan target sebagai musuh yang harus diperangi oleh dunia "barat", itu wajar. Karena memang orang barat sadar bahwa kalau Islam dibiarkan stabil, Islam akan sangat maju dan menguasai seperti saat kekhalifahan Islam menguasai seluruh daratan Asia, Eropa dan Afrika.

Islam memang diturunkan ke bumi oleh Alloh SWT melalui Rosululloh SAW sebagai agama sumber inspirasi untuk mengubah tatanan peradaban manusia yang primitif, paganis, jahiliyah ke peradaban yang modern dan manusiawi. Islam mengharuskan pemeluknya untuk "membaca" sehingga bisa menguasai ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi yang selanjutnya dapat dijadikan sebagai sarana membangun kehidupan.

After all, "Islam adalah agama pembaharu peradaban". Last but not least, Islam dapat menjadikan Muslim bangga menjadi Muslim. Inilah yang sesungguhnya membuat iri barat. Dasssssaaar!!!

And the world would finally realize – See below what CNN has to report about role of Muslims in Modern Inventions.

London, England (CNN) — Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind.


But in fact, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins.

Along with the first university, and even the toothbrush, it is among surprising Muslim inventions that have shaped the world we live in today.

The origins of these fundamental ideas and objects — the basis of everything from the bicycle to musical scales — are the focus of “1001 Inventions,” a book celebrating “the forgotten” history of 1,000 years of Muslim heritage.

“There’s a hole in our knowledge, we leap frog from the Renaissance to the Greeks,” professor Salim al-Hassani, Chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, and editor of the book told CNN.

“1001 Inventions” is now an exhibition at London’s Science Museum. Hassani hopes the exhibition will highlight the contributions of non-Western cultures — like the Muslim empire that once covered Spain and Portugal, Southern Italy and stretched as far as parts of China — to present day civilization.

Here Hassani shares his top 10 outstanding Muslim inventions:

1. Surgery
Around the year 1,000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Among his many inventions, Zahrawi discovered the use of dissolving cat gut to stitch wounds — beforehand a second surgery had to be performed to remove sutures. He also reportedly performed the first caesarean operation and created the first pair of forceps.

2. Coffee
Now the Western world’s drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the empire. By the 13th century it reached Turkey, but not until the 16th century did the beans start boiling in Europe, brought to Italy by a Venetian trader.

3. Flying Machine
“Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly,” said Hassani. In the 9th century he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird costume. In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and partially breaking his back. His designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci’s hundreds of years later, said Hassani.

4. University
In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco. Her sister Miriam founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University. Still operating almost 1,200 years later, Hassani says he hopes the center will remind people that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition and that the story of the al-Firhi sisters will inspire young Muslim women around the world today.

5. Algebra
The word algebra comes from the title of a Persian mathematician’s famous 9th century treatise “Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala”

which translates roughly as “The Book of Reasoning and Balancing.” Built on the roots of Greek and Hindu systems, the new algebraic order was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational numbers and geometrical magnitudes.
The same mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.

6. Optics
“Many of the most important advances in the study of optics come from the Muslim world,” says Hassani. Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemy’s theories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.

7. Music
Muslim musicians have had a profound impact on Europe, dating back to Charlemagne tried to compete with the music of Baghdad and Cordoba, according to Hassani. Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the rahab, an ancestor of the violin. Modern musical scales are also said to derive from the Arabic alphabet.

8. Toothbrush
According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath. Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste.

9. The crank
Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting rod system.
By converting rotary motion to linear motion, the crank enables the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease. This technology, discovered by Al-Jazari in the 12th century, exploded across the globe, leading to everything from the bicycle to the internal combustion engine.

10. Hospitals
“Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt,” explained Hassani. The first such medical center was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, founded in 872 in Cairo. Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who needed it — a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the Muslim world.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/29/muslim.inventions/index.html?hpt=C2

Kabar gembira buat para orang tua yang banyak duit yang ingin sekali anaknya masuk di sekolah favorit atau unggulan. Mulai tahun ajaran 2010-2011, SMPN 115 Tebet dan beberapa sekolah di Jakarta akan berubah menjadi RSBI (Rintisan Sekolah Berstandar Internasional)

Di sekolah yang RSBI, bahasa pengantar untuk mengajar sebagian besar mata pelajaran adalah bahasa Inggris. Beberapa mata pelajaran tersebut juga ditulis dalam bahasa Inggris. Konon, sekolah-sekolah seperti ini diproyeksikan untuk mengakselerasi pencapaian mutu output pendidikan kita yang "ketinggalan" dari negara-negara lain.

Tetapi yang ironis dari peng-RSBI-an beberapa sekolah favorit tersebut, pemerintah menutup pintu bagi mereka yang tidak punya uang. Yang bisa mendaftarkan diri ke sekolah RSBI adalah mereka yang punya uang Rp. 15 juta untuk membayar uang pangkal dan Rp. 500 ribu untuk membayar SPP setiap bulannya. Dengan kata lain, bagi mereka yang punya kemampuan IQ tetapi tidak punya uang, maaf ya. Tidak bisa. Silahkan cari sekolah lain.

Setelah hampir seabad bangsa ini merdeka dari bangsa penjajah, penyediaan pendidikan untuk rakyat justru diarahkan untuk mengkotak-kotakkan golongan atau kelas (ekonomi) masyarakat. Padahal, bangsa ini didirikan oleh para pendiri agar rakyat Indonesia sejahtera secara merata. Pendidikan adalah titik pangkal bagaimana mewujudkan kesejahteraan tersebut. Tetapi yang terjadi kok malah ada sekolah yang diperuntukkan khusus untuk orang kaya. Sementara untuk mereka yang tidak punya, terserah mereka. Mau sekolah silahkan, gak sekolah juga urusan masing-masing. Dasssssssaaaar!!!

Semakin lama bumi semakin tua. Semakin lama jumlah penduduk bumi semakin berlipat ganda. Untungnya, bertambahnya jumlah manusia juga dibarengi dengan kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Sehingga hal-hal yang dibutuhkan untuk menunjang hidup dan kehidupan pun tersedia.

Meskipun begitu, kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi tersebut juga membawa dampak yang menimbulkan malapetaka bagi kehidupan manusia. Maka semakin lama bumi yang makin tua ini pun tak berdaya. Kerusakan terjadi di mana-mana. Hutan-hutan gundul, sungai-sungai kekeringan, tanah pertanian tak lagi subur, desa-desa gersang, kota-kota kepayahan, lapisan ozon bolong, siklus musim pun tak lagi teratur dan berbagai penyakit pun timbul.

Manusia punya akal. Dengan akal, manusia menjadi tertinggi derajatnya dibanding makhluk lain. Dengan akal, manusia bisa melakukan apa saja, menemukan apa saja, menciptakan apa saja atau merumuskan apa saja. Tetapi sayangnya, akal sering tak digunakan semestinya. Bukan akal yang menuntun setiap rekadaya, tetapi justru nafsu yang mengendalikannya. Dasssar!!!