|
Pro-Islam indoctrination in schools Report on Biased Textbooks Goes to 500 Superintendents. The report lists several quotes from textbooks teaching students that the 9/11 attacks were a response to U.S. foreign policy. For example, one book says, "What were the sources of Muslim anger? ...bin Laden declared that the attacks were a response to the 'humiliation and disgrace' that have afflicted the Islamic world for over eighty years." Another teaches that Bin Laden was motivated by the "military presence of the sacred soil of the Arabian peninsula and its support for Israel's hostility to Palestinian nationalism." The ideology of radical Islam is not discussed. Harvard Fires Critic of Jihad. Harvard has dropped economics courses taught by a Hindu professor, Subramanian Swamy, president of the Janata Party of India and a former Union Cabinet minister, because of something that had nothing to do with economics: he wrote an editorial that Muslims find offensive. It's Called 'Christmas,' Stupid. The University of California, Berkeley, provides a prayer room in the student union for Muslim students, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn has installed footbaths for Muslim students, as have a dozen other universities. A technical school in Minnesota has installed footbaths, but the coffee cart's Christmas music has been turned off as a violation of the separation of church and state and, perhaps, insulting to those taking a footbath. Hamas High School in Florida? Why is a representative of a terror-linked organization, a defender of jihad terror groups and an apologist for Islamic supremacism welcome to speak in public schools? ... [W]e have been able to identify one school — Steinbrenner High School — where a representative of CAIR spoke to students. An informed source tells me it was the notorious Hassan Shibly. Shibly has a track record of defending jihad terrorist groups and acting as an apologist for the worldwide jihad and Islamic supremacism. ... Anywhere CAIR speaks, freedom's defenders must be given a platform as well. We are not an Islamic nation in which truth is blasphemy. Fighting Radical Islam — the Educational Threat. The education our children receive about Islam doesn't come only from the media. In fact, information about Islamic culture is taught in public and private schools across the U.S. From kindergarten to college, our children may be susceptible to mistruths about Islam, and its relationship to the western world. There is a dedicated stealth curriculum campaign by factions of the Muslim world to paint Islam in the most positive light, and that may not be a bad thing. The problem is that references to Radical Islam are being completely whitewashed. Islamizing the Curriculum in Georgia. Many of us have been calling out and exposing the destructive propaganda war that is being waged in our nation's classrooms. Time and time again, we find extensive lessons on Islam in the public schools, extolling Islamic misogyny and waxing poetic on sharia and the brutal oppression of non-Muslims and apostates. Last week, we found that schools across Georgia were Islamizing the curriculum by selling misogyny to children. They were using a lesson plan that glorifies the cloth coffin that Muslims dress women in, as well as polygamy. From Crayons to Condoms. We've all heard stories about teachers and students not being allowed to pray in schools or bring their Bibles to school. But unfortunately, when it comes to Islam there is a new standard. ... Islam is not always being taught just as a comparative religion class but actually involves students in Islamic religious rituals. One teacher reported that while she was substitute teaching she was instructed to leave the classroom for an hour while another school employee came to the classroom to lead the students in their prayers to Allah. Certainly the ACLU would file a lawsuit if a public school led children in prayers to God. Public School Converted To Islamic Center. As you read this, be mindful that it could just as easily be your community — and probably will be, eventually. Farmington, Michigan's Public School Board of Education voted unanimously to sell their vacant Eagle Elementary School to the Islamic Cultural Association for $1.1 million. The transaction was kept secret until the sale was nearly complete. Texas Schools Instituting Mandatory Arabic Language and Culture Classes. It seems that it was a well-kept secret. Residents in the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas found out just this Monday evening that the district had decided to force some of their children to take Arabic language and culture classes. As for the impetus behind the move, as they say, just follow the money: The program is a condition for receipt of a federal grant. A FLAP Develops Over Mandatory Arabic Classes in Texas. If one of the main goals of the Department of Education is to educate parents on why they might want to consider the option of private or home schooling, then mission accomplished. Parents Say Textbooks Give Islam a Makeover. Three North County residents contend a textbook used to teach seventh-graders about the Islamic religion in the San Dieguito Union High School District "romanticizes" the history of the religion, and they want the district to use supplemental information to provide what they say would be a more balanced view. The Subversive Agenda of our Public Schools. Multiculturalism, certainly, but I am particularly concerned personally with the Islamic slant of public school textbooks. Of all the arenas in which the stealth jihad is advancing, the most crucial is in our schools, where stealth jihadists have found a welcoming environment among teachers deeply steeped in the multiculturalist ethos. With the mandate of "tolerance" robbing many educators of their ability to evaluate non-Western cultures critically, teachers are highly susceptible to an organized campaign by U.S.-based Islamic organizations and their primary benefactor, Saudi Arabia, to present a view of Islam that whitewashes its violent history and intolerant religious imperatives. Meanwhile, in America's Islamic academies, teaching materials, some direct from Saudi Arabia, instill unequivocal hatred toward non-Muslims and a deep suspicion of Western culture. Standing Up for Persecuted Christian Teachers — in America. Two teachers at Dearborn's Fordson High School, Bryan Purcell and Georgene Stergalas, were repeatedly harassed by the then-Muslim principal Imad Fadlallah. (He has since been replaced by another Muslim principal.) As we've noted in the press release announcing the lawsuit, it was clear that the harassment was brought because these teachers are Christians and not Muslims and because the principal wanted to replace Christian teachers with teachers who are Muslims, Arabs, or Arab Muslims. De Facto Shariah Law in America. In the State of California, 7th-grade students at Excelsior Middle School in Discovery Bay, California adopted Muslim names, prayed on prayer rugs, and celebrated Ramadan under a state-mandated curriculum that requires instruction about various religions. In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court again declined to hear legal challenges by concerned Excelsior parents, who complained that the instruction was actually religious indoctrination and that Christianity and Judaism were not given equal time and exposure. Public school children forced to pray to Allah. Where is the ACLU, which sues schools which dare mention Jesus or permit football teams to pray before games? School Apologizes After Students Pray to Allah on Field Trip to Mosque. A Massachusetts school district has apologized to parents after a group of schoolchildren participated in midday Muslim prayers during a field trip to a Boston-area mosque. The incident occurred in May when a social studies class from Wellesley Middle School toured the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, one of the largest mosques in the Northeast. Public School Field Trip Results in Islamic Indoctrination. This a sixth-grade class from a public school in Wellesley, MA, working with another of these innocuous-sounding "charities" that are really leftwing fronts, using taxpayer-funded field trip time to take unsuspecting children to a mosque that's notorious for its connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, for the kids to be indoctrinated. There's no excuse for this. Everyone on the school's staff who had anything to do with this trip should be fired. Countering Islamic Indoctrination in Public Schools. The fight against Islamic indoctrination in the schools won a victory in Texas last week. But the forces pushing to obfuscate the nature of Islam's jihad imperative hold the high ground in the education industry, forcing parents and realists to continue to fight. The Texas Board of Education issued a press release on Friday, 9/24/10, which included a self-described "most debated item on the board's Friday agenda" — a non-binding resolution that barely passed by a 7-6 vote, with two members absent. 'Diversity' Perversity: NY Schools Teaching Whitewashed Islamic History. The egregious bias in this exam, and its structured, requisite evaluation by teachers, is transparent and disturbing. Two examples of complementary "Official Historical Documents" which students are required to read and discuss — one pertaining to Islamic Spain, the other Reconquista Christian Spain — along with very specific teacher evaluation guidelines they must satisfy for the best grade, epitomize the naked indoctrination being promoted. Schoolhouse Shariah. California's educrats have put out new rules for teaching Islamic studies to seventh-graders in public schools, and they are as biased as ever. They'll also likely spread eastward. The lesson guidelines adopted by the bellwether state whitewash the violence and oppression of women codified in Islamic law, or Shariah. And they're loaded with revisionist history about the faith. Islamist Propaganda in the K-12 Classrom. A highly disturbing phenomenon is rising in our public school system today with hardly a peep of protest from parents and from our society at large: students are being force-fed a curious and bizarre narrative that presents Islam in a glowing — and historically mangled — light, while Western civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition are demonized and smeared. Teen suspended for criticizing Muslim student. The teen says an issue over the American flag is why she was written up and handed a five-day suspension from Springstead High School this week for criticizing a Muslim student. Heather says the other girl was sitting down during the Pledge of Allegiance. The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror. With the decline of communism, the Left began to support Islamism. Whereas journalists, novelists and activists led the charge in the first wave, Glazov explains in the second half of the book [Unholy Alliance, the most vociferous defenders of Islamism now come from the Ivory Tower. US Public Schools Teaching Children Pro-Islamic Propaganda. Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus and the 9/11 murderers were not Islamic Fundamentalists but simply a generic "teams of terrorists." That's the caliber of politically corrected [nonsense] many of our children are being taught in American public schools — and it's past time all parents took serious notice. A five year study by Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research cites hundreds of such errors and distortions found in "28 of the most widely used social studies and history textbooks in the United States." Minnesota College Begins Islamization Makeover. The first public college in the nation has now earnestly begun the Islamization of its campus. We presume this is only the first of many other colleges and universities that will now follow suit. Minneapolis Community and Technical College announced in March that it will renovate its bathrooms, in order to install ritual foot-washing basins for Muslims' who are preparing for their prayers. Hate Speech At San Francisco State University. The virulence of anti-Israelism and antisemitism at The University of California, Irvine campus ... has been so flagrant and endemic in recent years that it actually prompted an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, the findings of which were issued in a damning 2007 report. But San Francisco State University is not far behind in the ignoble way it has enabled its Muslim students' organizations to create a veritable reign of terror on campus against Jewish and pro-Israel students, while simultaneously attempting to silence voices of opposition... Critic Says Islamic Extremism Gets Whitewashed in American Textbooks. An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what's being taught in public schools. In numerous history textbooks, "key subjects like jihad, Islamic law, the status of women are whitewashed," said Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, an independent group that reviews history books and other education materials. Whitewashing Jihad in the Schools. American educators have been bending to the will of the grievance-mongers ever since the 9/11 attacks. Remember the jihad-sympathizing admonition included in the NEA's touchy-feely, post-9/11 curriculum: "Do not suggest that any group is responsible" for the terrorist attacks, parents and teachers were advised. But feel free to conjure up homeschooling "wackos" and Christian "New Crusaders" to avoid offending the Muslim lobby. Islamo-Fascism Week III: "Stop the Jihad on Campus". In October 2007, more than one hundred campuses hosted Islamo-Fascism Awareness weeks to make university communities aware of the Islamist threat and the danger it poses. In April 2008 a second Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week focused on the network created in America by the Muslim Brotherhood and that includes the Muslim Students Association and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Textbook Lies About Islam. Why, at a time of war, are students at top U.S. military schools denied an objective treatment of Islam's war doctrines? A report by the American Textbook Council sheds light by showing how these academic failures have much deeper roots. Horowitz Speech on Radical Islam Has Repercussions at Northwestern. Less than a week after defaming David Horowitz by claiming that he spreads "blatant lies about Islam" and criticizing the College Republicans for "bringing such an offensive and divisive speaker" to campus, the Muslim-cultural Students Association (McSA) at Northwestern has announced plans to bring infamous Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers to campus. School for scoundrels. Despite a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., has continued to use textbooks that teach hatred of everyone not of their specific brand of faith, the U.S. State Department has yet to act to close down the school. … One would be hard-pressed to find a greater threat to public health, safety and welfare than this training ground for a new generation of jihadists. Report: Maryland Textbooks on Islamic Teachings Dumbed Down. According to the New York Examiner, a new report issued by the American Textbook Council said that administrators who approved books for use in the Montgomery County school district caved into pressure by pro-Islamic groups seeking to present a less violent interpretation of Islam. Gilbert Sewall, director of the council, stated that, for example, the definition of jihad has gone through "amazing cultural reorchestration" in textbooks, losing any connotation of violence, the Examiner wrote. The Most Muslim University in America. At the University of California, Irvine the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American student group, holds several programs which unabashedly support terrorist groups and unjustly denounce Israel, America, and the Western world. MSU events have featured speakers like Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill, Muhammad al-Asi and Amir Abdel Malik Ali, and have had titles such as "Hamas: the People's Choice" and "Israel: The 4th Reich." Islamic Textbook Teaches It's OK to Kill. A federal investigation released Wednesday [6/11/2008] reveals that some Islamic textbooks are teaching kids it's okay to kill adulterers and converts from Islam. The books have been used by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax. The school receives much of its funding from the Saudi government. Schoolboys disciplined for 'refusing to pray to Allah'. It was claimed that the boys, from a year seven class of 11 and 12-year-olds, were given detention after refusing to take part in a practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped. Yesterday [7/4/2008] parents accused the school of breaching their human rights by forcing them to take part in the exercise. Schoolboys punished for refusing to kneel in class and pray to Allah. Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and 'pray to Allah' during a religious education lesson. Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped. Islam in America's public schools: Education or indoctrination? Islamists, or those who believe that Islam is a political and religious system that must dominate all others, are focusing less on the military and more on the ideological. It turns out that Western liberal democracies can be subverted without firing a shot. Nowhere is this more evident than in the educational realm. Islamists have taken what's come to be known as the "soft jihad" into America's classrooms and children in K-12 are the first casualties. Celebrating Open Tent' Day — Kids Dress Like Arabs. Only in the west can one see a school that hosts a day when school children are encouraged to dress like, act like, and "learn about" those trying to kill them and all in a day that the country is in the midst of war. And only in the west would the media help celebrate such an outrageous example of support for what, in truth, are our enemies. Update: Principal has new job after 'Islam 101' controversy. The Friendswood Junior High principal who outraged some parents by allowing an Islamic group to make a 40-minute presentation to students last month is now off the job. In a two-sentence statement sent late Wednesday, the school district said Robin Lowe "has accepted another administrative position effective immediately." Multiculturalism Gone Berserk: Why are school children forced to "bow to the altar of multiculturalism" as they did at the Amherst Middle School when kids had to celebrate something called "Open Tent Day" by parading around the school dressed as Saudi Arabians, according to pcblogspot.com.? Muslim presentation at Friendswood school draws fire. Parents of some junior high students are upset they weren't notified about a school presentation on Islamic culture, an omission that violated school district policy. The parents' letter-writing campaign stems from a May 22 presentation at Friendswood Junior High, where two Muslim women gave a 30-minute presentation about Islamic life as part of a yearlong study of respect, tolerance and culture, The Galveston County Daily News reported Saturday [5/31/2008]. Wall of silence broken at state's Muslim public school. Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion. Evidence suggests, however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers. Islam and the Textbooks: [Scroll down] What the comparison revealed were content distortions and inaccuracies that have not occurred by accident. These lessons and the process by which they are put into America's classrooms raise serious concerns about the integrity of world history as a subject. Education or Indoctrination: Inquiring Minds Want to Know. Two thoughts come to mind as I reflect on this story. The first deals with the notion of the "double standard"; the second, with "duplicity." Our current climate of political correctness in this country has produced a dizzying double standard as it relates to Christianity and its competing world views -- including Islam. Ohio's Jihadist Public University Professor. A history professor at a public Ohio university is an outspoken supporter of Palestinian terrorism who regularly works on his renowned Jihad web site while drawing a state paycheck. The Kent State University teacher, Julio Pino, is a Muslim convert who says his Jihadist news service provides battle dispatches, training manuals and Jihad videos to brothers worldwide. Who's Behind the Censorship of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week? The three co-equal branches of the Unholy Alliance — Islamic radicals, far-Left activists, and academics — have returned to their usual level of discourse — intimidation, slander, ad hominem attacks — in an attempt to ban Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week from college campuses before it ever occurs. In England: Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims. Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed. It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades — where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem — because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques. Also in England: Muslim pupils learn to cut off hands of thieves. Up to 5,000 pupils attending weekend schools across Britain are being exposed to textbooks claiming that some Jews were transformed into pigs and apes, and that some offences could be punished with stoning. One book for six year-olds warns that those who do not believe in Islam will be condemned to "hellfire" in death. Scholastic joins education industry's campaign for Islam. The Junior Scholastic "news magazine" that is written for elementary students and used in thousands of public schools across the United States has published an article promoting "madrassa" school life for American children who are Muslims, much to the outrage of some parents. "Remember way back in grade school and getting Junior Scholastic magazine in school? Well here is an example of what JS has devolved into. Force-feeding the barbaric propaganda of Islamic madrassas down the throats of my 7th and 4th graders. Disgusting," a father wrote WND about the issue, published in November. Teacher resigns after placing "destroy America" in students' word search. Students said former Smithfield-Selma High Spanish teacher Khalid Chahhou gave them an extra-credit "word search" Thursday [11/16/2006] that required them to translate vocabulary words and find them in a grid of letters. They started seeing other words such as "destroy" and "terrorist" and eventually put together a few sentences that decry violence against Palestinians and appear to condemn the United States for its involvement in the conflict. At universities, little learned from 9/11. The feminists at Harvard seek to remove every vestige of patriarchy in America, but they have said almost nothing about the complete dismissal of women's rights by radical Islam. To do so would be to attack Islamic culture, and according to multiculturalism, every culture is equal and none is evil. Oregon Students Wear Islam Dress For Class. Officials at a public school in Oregon are defending a seventh-grade social studies unit on Islam that included students dressing in traditional Islamic dress. Kendlee Garner of Nyssa told the Ontario Argus Observer that she objected to the amount of time dedicated to the unit on Islam — four weeks — as well as the wearing of religious garb and the lack of parental notification. She said her son told her about the activity, and when she objected, he got an alternate assignment in the library. Ex-teacher gets 15 years for aiding terror group. A federal judge yesterday [8/25/2006] sentenced a former third-grade teacher at a Muslim school in Maryland to 15 years in prison for providing support to a terrorist organization known as the "Virginia jihad network," which used paintball games to train for a holy war. The Visiting Jihadist: Throughout America, universities are turning a blind eye while their campuses are being invaded by those propagating a violent form of hatred known simply as radical Islam. This month, one such campus will follow this insidious trend. On March 17th through the 18th, the University of Central Florida (UCF) will be hosting an imam who has ties to terrorists and has publicly pledged his support for those who commit suicide in the name of Allah. Christian Parents Sue After Students "Become Muslims": A public school in Byron, California is being sued after forcing Christian students to pretend they were Muslims for three weeks. As part of an Islam simulation" project, students prayed in the name of Allah, chose a Muslim name, and played a "jihad" dice game, according to the group that filed the lawsuit. Islam studies spark hate mail, lawsuits: (Parents say "Biased" state-adopted textbook distorts world history in favor of Muslims.) Word of public-school students pretending to be Muslims, wearing robes, simulating jihads and memorizing verses from the Koran in a seventh-grade California classroom touched off a firestorm of debate, but WorldNetDaily has learned these classroom exercises are neither isolated to one school district nor are they anything new. A New "History" Book in the Spirit of Multiculturalism: Could it be that an important textbook is proselytizing American 12-year-olds to convert to Islam? Muslim groups rally behind undisputed cheerleader of Islamic terrorism. When former college professor — and alleged terrorist — Sami al-Arian was unexpectedly acquitted Tuesday [12/13/2005] on eight counts and received a hung jury on the other nine, many leading Muslims could barely contain their glee. How wonderful. This is just what we need. Over 10,000 Saudi Students are Bound for the US. More than 10,000 Saudi students will travel to the US to attend university as part of a government-sponsored program following the adoption of new measures by the Ministry of Higher Education aimed at facilitating travel procedures for Saudis. In total, 21,000 Saudis are expected to take part in the program in the next four years. UNC "Islamic Indoctrination" Case Heating Up: A Christian attorney says students who sued a university over a mandatory Muslim indoctrination course should not have to reveal their identities. A group of students is suing the University of North Carolina for attempting to force them to participate in a pro-Islamic reading program, claiming the program amounts to government sponsorship of religion. They sued anonymously out of fear of retaliation from radical Muslim extremists. Judge Rules Pro-Islamic Reading at UNC Constitutional: Participation No Longer Required of Incoming Students; Attorneys Filing Appeal. The Cutting Edge in American Education: "Become a Muslim warrior": Militant Islamic lobbying groups want Islam taught as the true religion, not as an academic subject. They take advantage of this indulgence, exerting pressure on school systems and on textbook writers. 9th Circuit Says Islam in Public Schools is Okay. In what can only be seen as a double-standard, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that teaching Islam in a public school does not amount to indoctrination, even though the court's rulings indicate recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance apparently does. Islam studies spark hate mail, lawsuits: (Parents say "Biased" state-adopted textbook distorts world history in favor of Muslims.) Word of public-school students pretending to be Muslims, wearing robes, simulating jihads and memorizing verses from the Koran in a seventh-grade California classroom touched off a firestorm of debate, but WorldNetDaily has learned these classroom exercises are neither isolated to one school district nor are they anything new. A Patriotic Professor is Falsely Accused: If higher education is an enlightened search for truth, these misguided Muslim students have chosen a dead end paved with lies. Pants on Fire!: An independent report has found Orange Coast College professor Ken Hearlson innocent. So why are the Muslim students who lied to get him in trouble still in school? San Diego State Student Charged with Harassment for Patriotism: Student's crime was objecting to Muslim students' joy at September 11th attacks. Muslim mythology thrives on PC college campuses. Youth lends itself to stridency and naïveté, making campuses fertile fields for hatemongers and paranoia peddlers, providing an ideal home to delusional Muslim mythology. And political correctness has served as ignorance's accomplice. "Spiritual warfare" grips Univ. of Wisconsin: 2nd-year resident dismissed after questioning Islamist lecturers. Jihad for Kids: It contains no foul language or sexual innuendo. In fact, it aims to instill reverence for God and obedience to His commands. Nevertheless, one educational CD-ROM marketed to children aged five and up is one of the most disquieting products ever aimed at pre-teens. The The Cutting Edge in American Education: "Become a Muslim warrior": Militant Islamic lobbying groups want Islam taught as the true religion, not as an academic subject. They take advantage of this indulgence, exerting pressure on school systems and on textbook writers. The Answers are Simple, the Decisions are Hard: A recent news item told how a California public school had adopted an Islam curriculum in a well meaning effort, I suppose, to create peace among diverse religious elements in our nation. They teach these days that diversity is the new religion, and it is often put forth with an inflexible boldness that belies its so-called "tolerance" and disparages all other singular faiths such as Christianity or Judaism. Pro-Islam indoctrination at Yale University Giving Yale the finger: Since the New York Times and Wall Street Journal broke the news about the admission of Taliban official Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi to a special student program at Yale, we've received numerous emails from outraged Yale Alumni. One email stood out from the rest — "I won't give Yale one red cent this year, but maybe I will give them a red fingernail instead!" She was referring to the Taliban's policy of pulling the fingernails off of Afghani women who dared to wear fingernail polish. Some of these women even had their thumbs sliced off as punishment. [Oh yes. There's a religion of peace for you. Maybe they're just misunderstood.] You've Got Mail (It's From Yale). A university official calls Taliban critics "retarded" while the university maintains a stony silence. Educating the Taliban at Yale. Imagine if you were in college and found out that the guy next to you in class had worked as a propagandist for one of the most oppressive regimes of modern times. For some Yale students, this is not a theoretical question. Yale alumni relations' response: "Are you retarded?". We'd be lying if we said we were surprised at the public outrage to Yale's admission of former deputy foreign secretary of the Taliban, Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi. It was an outrageous and indefensible decision, and America knows it. It's the visas, stupid! The ACLU is suing the U.S. Government to force it to grant Tariq Ramadan a travel visa so that he can take up his teaching position at Notre Dame while awaiting the trial on his 2004 visa denial. ... Both the Yale situation and the Notre Dame case ... illustrate the critical importance of a visa process with teeth. Sayed and de Man at Yale: Three weeks after the New York Times revealed that former Taliban official Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi is attending classes at Yale, many at the university still have little to say about the controversy. Meredith Startz, president of the Yale Political Union, told me "there's more discussion of military recruiting among people at Yale than about the Taliban student." That's partly because Ms. Startz's own organization is discouraging discussion of the subject. Yale's Taliban: defending the indefensible, part I. Yale is in a dilemma. It made a huge, indefensible blunder when it admitted the senior advisor to Mullah Omar as a special student, and now it's taking hits from students, from alumni, and from the media. How can Yale spin its way out of this one? Yale's Taliban: Defending the indefensible, part II. Uncanny, isn't it? There's a reason the Taliban sent this fellow abroad to lie for them. He's good. He's smooth. He plays limousine liberals like fine violins. Even now the Yale administration and most of its faculty and students — especially those on usually vocal left — are refusing to speak out against the evil he represented. Their ignorance is willful. Their gullibility is inexcusable. Their silence is damning. God and Juan at Yale? After clearing a significant procedural hurdle earlier this month, University of Michigan professor Juan Cole, who is better known as a left-wing Israel-bashing blogger, could soon be offered a full tenured position at Yale. Other interesting web sites: Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Jihad Watch. Because the West is facing a concerted effort by radical Muslims, most of whom are ignored by the Western media, to destroy the West and bring it forcibly into the Islamic world. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad. Jihad Watch is dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts. We hope to alert people of good will to the true nature of the present global conflict that radical Islam is waging against the rest of us. Islam: The Religion of Peace -- and Terror. Kafir Nation: Exposing the so-called "peaceful" religion for what it really is. |
