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The New Nation, Bangladesh’s News Source on April 22, 2004 published a very sensational story that is reproduced here:

This is a doctored photo.

Giant human skeleton found in Saudi Arabia

By Saalim Alvi from Riyadh Apr 22, 2004, 12:04 Recently gas exploration is going in the desert of south east region of Saudi Arabia . This desert region is called Empty Quarter , which means in Arabic "RAB - UL -KHAALEE"; this body has been found by ARAMCO exploration team. This proves what Allah SWT said in QURAN about the people of AAD nation and HOOD nation.

They were so tall, wide and very power full that they were able to pull out big trees just with the one hand. But what happen after when they become misguided and disobeys Allah SWT, Allah SWT destroyed the whole nation. ULEMA KIRAM of Saudi Arabia believes that this body belongs to AAD nation.

Saudi military took over this whole area. And nobody is allowed to go in this region except Saudi ARAMCO personnel's. Saudi government has kept it very secret but some military helicopters took pictures from air. And one of them he runs on internet here in Saudi Arabia .

© Copyright 2003 by The New Nation

This is the original photo before it was doctored. Source

This is how mastodons looked like. More Images

However, the image that was associated with the news article was doctored. The original image, which is shown to the right, is of course the aerial photo of a pit at a site outside of Hyde Park, New York, which was taken on September 16, 2000. The site was excavated by the Paleontological Research Institution and the Cornell Department of Geological Sciences and what they found was the skeleton of a mastodon.

The American mastodon (scientific name Mammut americanum) roamed North America from at least 3.75 million to 10,000 years ago. Mastodons, along with mammoths and modern elephants, are members of the order Proboscidea. As adults they stood between 2.5 and 3 meters (8-10 feet) at the shoulder and weighed between 3500 and 5400 kilograms (4-6 tons).

So the site does not contain the skeleton of a giant man and it is not in Saudi Arabia. But why then did The New Nation, which is one of the major publications of Bangladesh, reports such a deceiving story?

The answer is to be found in the books of hadith and the stories that were told by the Prophet Muhammad. According to several hadiths Adam was 60 cubits (90 feet) tall.

According to the above traditions humans have been decreasing in size ever since Adam put foot on earth. So that digitally forged photo is an attempt to prove that what Muhammad said was true.

Discoveries in paleontology show that humans have been steadily growing in size. Homo habilis who lived 2.4-1.5 million years ago were no more than 150 cm tall. Their ancestors, the Australopithecus, were just about 100 cm tall. Therefore Muhammad’s story of Adam and other ancient people being extremely tall is sheer nonsense.

However, many Muslims are busy fooling themselves through forgeries, deceits and lies. They have written volumes with fabricated stories to prove that the Quran is scientific. Once you delve into Islam you see it is an edifice erected with lies and virtually nothing else. Every break, every component of Islam is a lie. It is mind boggling how one lie is placed on another and a religion is built with sheer lies.

Amazingly those who engage in these forgeries believe they are doing a service to Allah for strengthening the faith of people in him and those who believe in these lies are more than happy to have found yet another “proof” that validates their faith. .

Lying for Allah is acceptable according to the eminent Islamic scholar Imam Ghazali who wrote:

Imam Ghazali does not say this without knowledge. He is basing his fatwa on the words and examples of the Prophet himself.

In one hadith we read that the prophet calls upon his followers to assassin Ka’b ibn Ashraf, the chief of a Jewish tribe who was wary of Muhammad and tells them it is okay to tell a lie to deceive him. Bukhari, Volume 5, #369

The fact is that Muslims feel no pang of conscience to lie if that lie is said for Allah’s sake and his religion. If the lie is said for a good cause it is okay.

If a major newspaper, in this day of the Internet and world wide communication is not abashed to fabricate such an obvious lie to promote Islam one can only imagine how the rest of the miracles and noble acts attributed to Muhammad were forged in a time when educated people were scarce and opposing views were gagged.

References

1. ↑ Ahmad Ibn Naqib al-Misri, The Reliance of the Traveller, translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller , Amana publications, 1997, section r8.2, page 745.