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Saudi cleric claims ‘Earth is stationary, does not revolve around sun’

A Saudi cleric by the name of Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari rejected the theory of ‘Earth revolves around the Sun’ in a recent video, and claimed that the opposite is true, according to a foreign news agency.

His statements sparked a wave of social media remarks from all over the world.

When a student questioned him about the Earth being ‘stationary or moving’, Sheikh Bandar
al-Khaibari responded with ‘stationary and does not move’.

Khaibari quoted some clerics and chose to present some religious statements. He also used some visuals to strengthen his argument.

He argued that if a plane stops still in the air, “China would be coming towards it in case the Earth rotates in one direction. If the Earth rotates in the opposite direction, the plane would never reach China, because China is also rotating,” he explained.

A wave of controversial remarks flooded social media, following the clerics video, so much so that a new hashtag began trending on Twitter: #cleric_rejects_rotation_of_Earth

 

 

 

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