Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth who is "stationary and does not move,"

Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth who is "stationary and does not move,"(INN).

The sun revolves around the Earth, a Saudi cleric insisted to a student panel Sunday - prompting a social media storm.

Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari told a student that the Earth is "stationary and does not move," according to Al-Arabiya, justifying the statement with religious texts and statements.

But then he tried to debunk the common knowledge about the Earth's rotation using "logic," in a visual demonstration that prompted the speech to go viral.

“First of all, where are we now?" he asked. "We go to Sharjah airport to travel to China by plane, clear?!" Khaibari argued, confusingly, that the Earth cannot rotate because it would render air travel impossible.

If a plane stops still in air, he said, and the Earth rotated, than China would either be moving toward it or moving away from it, and "the plane would never reach China" because "China is also rotating."

The exchange prompted a viral hashtag in Arabic on Twitter, translated loosely by the news agency as #cleric_rejects_rotation_of_Earth.

One student pointed out on the social network that the speech had been given on February 15 - Galileo Galilei's birthday.

Religious and political officials in Muslim countries have made such outrageous claims before. Hmmmm......Houston.....We have a Problem, Makes my head spin just from reading this.


Update : 

I Got intrigued by his revolutionary claim so i looked a bit further seems the Sun sets in a muddy pool.

According to the Qur'an (18:86), a man named Dhul-Qarnain reached the place where the sun sets. When he got there, he found the sun going down into a muddy pool. Source and HT


My guess we found the Cleric his Teacher and mentor below: