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From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@grnail.com>
To: Lawrence Krauss
Subject: Re: one muslim at a time
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 11:06:51 +0000
a role model could be an offshoot not a goal
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Lawrence Krauss < > wrote:
Pa. To be a little more sincere. I am not unhappy to be a role model. I cannot help it if people are inspired. I do
what I want to do and if people get inspired I can't help it.
Lawrence Krauss
Foundation Professor
School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept.
Co-director, Cosmology Initiative
and Director, Origins initiative
Arizona State University
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 7, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
i won't dignify this trite anecdote. . if you had 1 mlilion of these it would not be worth one day of your time.
if you want to be a rabbi, do it. this is not science this is religion. and a total fucking wast of your unique
talents. the idea that you find found this meaningful makes me sad
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Lawrence Krauss < > wrote:
hi.. back in the US.. let's talk... things developing slowly.
Lawrence
p.s. couldn't resist sending this, which came today...
Ahmed Almaa
• To Dr.Lawrence Krauss
I would like to start off by thanking you, not only for the enlightenment I know enjoy due to my eyes
now being opened to the amazing world of science, but also for your persistence on sharing your
knowledge and your tenacity and convection while doing so. I've learned and enjoyed your videos
and lectures tremendously, and my favorite has to be "The greatest story ever told".
I am a 22 year old Middle Eastern male, born in a typical Muslim Middle Eastern family, and raised
by devout Muslim parents. Ever since I was old enough to understand I was told that I was created
by Allah and that the Quran is his word and law, and if I did not follow what he said, to the letter, I
would burn in hell, where every day is like a thousand earthly days, and every time you burn you
would grow new skin and flesh to burn again, torture that would last for eternity, but he, Allah,
doesn't want to do it, because he "loves" me, and in essence its actually me forcing his hands into
doing so, for willingly disobeying his commands. Thinking back at it, it truly is an act of child
cruelty, not to imply that my parents meant it to be cruel, but that it is a method of unintended
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cruelty, one which most every Muslim parent unintentionally inflicts on their child, because they feel
that it is part of their religious duty towards the child.
As a child I was also told that the Quran, a book which was written over 1400 years ago, had
"scientific" evidence that science was just now discovering, Surrounded by other Muslims, I had no
one contradicted my beliefs, or to present an alternative arguments. Thus I never questioned what I
was taught, or the claims Islam made, however I've wondered how most scientists did not embrace
Islam despite it having the facts I was told it had. The scientific evidence argument is one that
Muslims use to this day, and with how easy it is to disprove those using the tools available in this
day and age, such as the internet, to see what actual scientists have to say about the so called
scientific facts, I am surprised that more Muslims are not questioning Islam.
I was content with my life as is, sure I had a few questions about Islam, and I was told that was
normal, and that thinking too much is a sin, because Allah created the universe thus man could not
solve its riddles, and profusely thinking of the matter would lead to mental disorders. That was until
the spring of 2012, when my father was admitted to the hospital for an unknown condition, it was
thought to be malignant, but we prayed it wasn't, and I was torn, I was fairly westernized at the time,
so the first thought that came to my mind was "why do bad things happen to good people", my father
being the best person I know, should not suffer the way he is, however that thought was quickly
abandoned, because in Islam it would be considered a sin, to question Allah on his reasons, and
illness is actually a one of his tests, sure it was hard, but I tried to consolidate myself with a few
prayers, I went to YouTube and proceeded to view a few prayers and from there went on to view
some religious seminars, until something caught my eyes on the related videos column, it was a
debate between the imam and Christopher Hitchens, and I thought to myself, I have no idea who this
guy is, but he is going to get dominated, I even remember thinking to myself, who in their right mind
would argue against Islam, what argument could one present. But that was not what happened;
Hitchens actually had me thinking on a few points, not saying he won me over, but he got the wheels
spinning. So I continued to the next debate, the more I learned the less I believed; slowly but surely I
was starting to doubt what I've based my life on, and I realized that Islam wasn't actually perfect and
irrefutable, a thought that overnight destroyed it to me. Having a void left from where my religion
was I started filling it in with science and reason, and created my own