ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2006031630981) — If you think Creationism and it’s loony notion that Dinosaurs and man co-existed and everything began 10,000 years ago, then you’re going to love this new initiative. I have have yet to find the nexus for this, but so far the USA media has been oblivious to this story as it gain momentum.

Professor Fell, bases his conclusion that there were Muslim schools in the seventh and eighth centuries in Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Indiana on findings unearthed in archeological excavations. Writings, drawings, and tables found on rocks in the wilderness of West are the remnants of a Muslim primary and secondary education system. The evidence consists of the old Kufi Arab letters used in North African Arabic, and of the topics about reading-writing, arithmetic, religion, history, geography, mathematics, astronomy and navigation. The writing “With the name of Allah” (pictured left) found on a rock in the Nevada excavations, and another rock inscription “Mohammed Nabiyallah” (Mohammed is the Messenger of God) (picture 1) are strikingly similar to the Kufi style used in the seventh century.

Fell’s discoveries indicate Arabs lived in the seventh and eighth centuries in Nevada. Professors Heizer and Baumhoff from the University of California joined excavations at Nevada’s WA 25 site. The result unveiled there indicates there was a school in which Islam, science, and navigation were taught. In the Nevada excavations, Naski and Kufi styles of Arabic writings were found on the rocks and stones (picture 2). In this picture, the mathematical formula of — five diamonds is equal to an A in Arabic (Alif)” is seen.

Nevada? Is there any logic to this? No offense to Nevada, but if I’m floating around North American between 750-1150 A.D. I doubt I’d pick Nevada as the place to set up shop. Then again…