Category Archives: Islam on campus

‘Extremists’ preaching to UK student societies

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H/T Bains:

BBC:

Student lecture
Universities have to accommodate a wide range of political views

An anti-extremist group claims preachers it describes as radical Islamists have spoken at 180 events at 60 universities in the past year.

Student Rights also said a quarter of the student union society events it scrutinised promoted separate seating for men and women.

The group said some universities failed to uphold gender equality rules.

UK universities say they work closely with student bodies to balance freedom of speech and upholding the law.

But Students Rights claims a new generation of “extremist” speakers are touring campuses to spread their version of Islam.

It defined these as anyone who had made racist or intolerant comments, including incitement to violence or encouraging individuals to look at YouTube clips of terrorist activity.

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Melbourne Uni: Menstruating Women Squat in the Back!

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Sheik Yer Mami:

by SHEIKYERMAMI on APRIL 26, 2013

Women’s Lib, what it really means:

When a certain faith insists on segregation in public buildings…. well, go right ahead:

THE University of Melbourne has declined to condemn gender segregation at public events held by Islamic organisations at its Parkville campus… (Andrew Bolt)

Take a look at this photograph. It appeared in The Toronto Star‘s education section

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Queens U takes down free speech wall for unspecified reasons

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When Ronald Reagan said, “Tear down that wall” I’m pretty sure this is not what he meant.

The reasoning the Queens U rep uses is suspiciously similar to Pakistani judges determining whether a thing is blasphemy without actually looking at it or knowing what it is.

Ghost Cities

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Steyn Online:

In a dispute between Hamas and Fatah, it’s tempting to take the old Kissinger line re the Iran–Iraq War: It’s a shame they can’t both lose. But, in fact, only one side wins: In Gaza, al-Aqsa University has just announced that female students will be required to attend in proper Muslim garb from head to toe — i.e., the full body bag. At present, some still wear headscarf, trousers, and a long coat, but that’s too revealing for the new Gaza, so time to get fitted for your burka, niqab, or abaya. Al-Aqsa University is funded by the Palestinian Authority — i.e., Yasser Arafat’s old Fatah — but it’s controlled by Hamas. The higher-education minister, Ali Jarbawi, fumed impotently from Ramallah that the new dress code is illegal and must not be implemented, but the hard men on the ground in the Gaza Strip regard him as just another irrelevant member of a shriveling personality cult for a dead kleptocrat with a taste for Aryan rent boys.

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Egyptian teacher beating his student in school (Mar.8/2013)

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H/T CB

CB’s comment:

So often we hear of muslim children being subjected to physical abuse by their teachers in madrassahs, either in Islamic countries or here in the West. Well here’s why, according to a Hadith: “The Prophet said: Command your children to pray when they reach the age of seven and hit them if they if they do not do so by the age of ten…”
This Egyptian day care teacher was arrested (May 2011)

But its a university not a freaking mosque. So who gives a crap if it has a prayer room?

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If they want to pray go to a damn mosque. It isnt like they teach evolution, physics or anthropology at mosques right? Just high nitrogen chemistry as a rule. Why not leave universities to do what they are supposed to do and stop inventing fake rights. Next thing the Jewish students will demand their rights to have decent Szechwan places on campus.

H/T Don L

How to tell what happened based on what was not said.

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Here is a hypothetical situation.

A fight between hundreds of students takes place, Somali, presumably Muslim students on one side, and black Americans on the other.

A reporter for an American TV station is dispatched to report on the story and interviews many students as well as parents and other adults at the school to try and learn what the ‘casus Beli’ might have been.

Now, imagine that students and adults both pretty much had said something like,

‘The 8% of Somali students were constantly being harassed and targeted for racism by the American students and lots of white kids’

You can pretty much guess that would be reported and even embellished a little as that is right with the narrative.

Now lets say that the students and responsible adults all said something like,

‘The Somali kids were hurling racist remarks at us, calling us infidels and slaves, insulting  us and demanding that we become Islamic etc. etc.’

Now how might that be reported? My guess would be constant and vague references to “ongoing tensions” repeated like a mantra, and maybe repeat that “overall, students here do get along” and that there really has been a history of (unspecified) ongoing tensions.

Truth, is the first casualty of political correctness.

*** UPDATE *** Magic Martin sent 2 links to videos which I have excerpted here. The full articles are here, and here.

Western U in Ontario wants to replace the 1 newspaper office with a 2nd ‘multi faith’ prayer room. MSA

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The newspaper is 100 years old and for reasons no one quite understands, is being forced out of its ancient offices to make room for a second prayer room, quite obviously for Muslims. Yet this is a university, not a mosque. It seems that universities across the Western world have utterly lost the basic requirements for their existence. Perhaps the time has come to close them and start a new system with less public funding and stronger emphasis on academics and Greek thought.

For those who are not familiar, it is very important to understand who the MSA actually are.

H/T Grace

National Post:

‘Campus press freedom weakening’: Student council reportedly wants to replace newsroom with multi-faith prayer room

First, copies of The Gazette started disappearing from newsstands, then the student government reportedly demanded to sit in on editorial meetings, and now in what Canada’s only daily student paper is calling the latest crackdown on “campus press freedom,” Gazette staff are being turfed out of their offices to make way for a prayer room.

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“Given some of the issues that we’ve been undergoing in the last nine months, it leads me to strongly suspect that [this eviction] is about something else,” said Gloria Dickie, editor in chief of the University of Western Ontario-based student paper, The Gazette.

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