I initially read this about 10 days ago on one of the conservative blogs I read along with the progressive ones: littlegreenfootballs. LGF being what it is, I noted it and waited to hear more about it from other sources. In his post, Charles had quoted from Reuters:
Edis doubted the rumors of funds from U.S. creationists, saying: “American creationists I talk to basically envy Harun Yahya’s financial resources. If there were any fund flowing, it would be from Adnan Oktar to the creationists.”
The real name of Yahya is Adnan Oktar. Some of this piece of news later got picked up by Panda's Thumb. Charles kept researching and in a later post provided an audio clip from the CBC, in which David Berlinski from the Discovery Institute explicitly states that the DI is working closely together with their islamic counterparts. Two days ago, Charles reported on Imam Siraj Wahhaj, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is planning a barrage of subway train advertisements in Manhattan—during September—proselytizing for Islam: Muslim Subway Ads Linked to Terror Plots. Yesterday, Charles pointed out that the website of this radical islamist group prominently displays this large picture: Now guess what it says on the website where you land when you click on that banner? "This site is based on the works of Harun Yahya". Could it be that the apparently insanely wealthy Oktar is funding both radical islamists and the Discovery Institute at the same time?
And I decided to write a post about this connection between islamic terrorism and the DI when I saw a similar post on Pharyngula this morning, but I must have been dreaming, because such a post does not exist there (anymore?). Anyway, now you have all the info I have.
P.S.: It is of course well-known that the so-called "intelligent design" moniker is just a DI-invented disguise for religious (christian) creationism:
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