The video below shows excerpts from a debate on Iraqi television, between a physicist who argues that the Earth is a sphere, and an "astronomer" who believes it is flat.
The basis for the flat-earther's argument is:
"No verse in the Koran indicates that the Earth is round or that it rotates. Anything that has no indication in the Koran is false."
While this particular debate is comical, its implications are not. Aristotle declared that the Earth was a sphere about 2350 years ago, yet the absence of this information in the Koran is enough for an Iraqi "astronomer" to disbelieve the blatantly obvious. If the Koran says the sky is purple, then by god, it must be purple!
The formal education for many Muslims, especially in the Middle East, is limited to memorization of the Koran, an understanding of the Hadith, and a distorted history of Islam. If there are those capable of believing that the world is flat, how can you "unlearn" their beliefs about killing infidels?
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