Islam….Lord Byron Beat Me To It!

[PoliticalChic]

As Lord Byron famously wrote:

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep



Read this story and you, also, won’t know whether to laugh of cry.

1.“Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent

This will teach those Islamophobes that Islam is a religion of peace: a professor is facing death threats for suggesting otherwise. Nicholas Damask, Ph.D., …. is facing a barrage of threats, and his family, including his 9-year-old grandson and 85-year-old parents, is in hiding, while College officials are demanding that he apologize – all for the crime of speaking the truth about the motivating ideology behind the threat of Islamic jihad worldwide.


2. Damask, who has an MA in International Relations from American University in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, says he is “to my knowledge, the only tenured political science faculty currently teaching in Arizona to write a doctoral dissertation on terrorism.”

3. Professor Damask’s troubles began during the current Spring semester, when a student took exception to three quiz questions. The questions were:

• Who do terrorists strive to emulate? A. Mohammed
• Where is terrorism encouraged in Islamic doctrine and law? A. The Medina verses [i.e., the portion of the Qur’an traditionally understood as having been revealed later in Muhammad’s prophetic career]
• Terrorism is _______ in Islam. A. justified within the context of jihad.

4. Damask explained: “All quiz questions on each of my quizzes, including the ones in question here, are carefully sourced to the reading material. On this quiz, questions were sourced to the Qur’an, the hadiths, and the sira (biography) of Mohammed, and other reputable source material.” And indeed, the three questions reflect basic facts that are readily established by reference to Islamic texts and teachings and numerous statements of terrorists themselves.



5. [A] student emailed Damask to complain that he was “offended” by these questions, as they were “in distaste of Islam.” Damask sent two lengthy emails to the student responding to his complaints, but to no avail. A social media campaign began against Damask on the College’s Instagram account. …supporters of the student posting angry, threatening, inflammatory and derogatory messages about the quiz, the school, and myself.”


6. …College officials took no public notice of the fact, but the posts on its Instagram page discussing the incident had begun to fill up with threats against Damask, including these statements: “if he is still around I suggest the students take action to make sure he isn’t”; “drop the professor’s address I just wanna talk”; “what’s the instructor’s name and address, I just want to say ‘hi’”; “I wish everything bad on these kuffar” [unbelievers]; “I hope he suffers.”
Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent


Well........they certainly proved their point, didn't they.

 

[Moonglow]

Kind of ironic-no?
Just like Christians who claim to be peaceful loving people.

No religion has peaceful members.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

More to come America! Keep printing those immigrant visas...lol!

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Is that the Lord Byron who was fucking his own sister ?

 

[norwegen]

Is that the Lord Byron who was fucking his own sister ?

This is why we declared our independence.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Now.....about the 'Religion of Peace'.....


“According to Damask, “there are literally hundreds of posts like this. There have been death threats, at least one call for a school shooting, and at least one call to burn down the school. Again, all of these threats are still on the College’s Instagram page.” When he asked school police to shut down the social media posts in light of these threats, they told him the posts were being monitored. Yet the threats were not taken down.



5. At this point, College officials should have defended Professor Damask and the principle of free inquiry, but that would require a sane academic environment. Scottsdale Community College officials, Damask said, “stepped in to assert on a new Instagram post that the student was correct and that I was wrong – with no due process and actually no complaint even being filed – and that he would receive full credit for all the quiz questions related to Islam and terrorism.” Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent


Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying that the philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. [The college] “issued an apology to the student and to the “Islamic community,” and stated on the College’s Instagram page that Damask would be “required” to apologize to the student for the quiz questions, as the questions were “inappropriate” and “inaccurate,” and would be permanently removed from Damask’s exams.

“The irony here,” says Damask, “is that literally during this phone call, I and my wife were tossing socks and jammies and our nine-year-old grandson’s toys into a suitcase to get the hell out of the house because of the death threats made by Islamic commenters on the College’s Instagram page.”



7. …the school sent Damask the apology that he was to make to the offended student. It is full of the expected embarrassing groveling: “I know,” Damask is supposed to inform the student, “a simple apology may not be enough to address the harm that I caused but I want to try to make amends.” He promises the student: “I will be reviewing all of my material to ensure there’s no additional insensitivities.” (Apparently politically correct academics cannot be bothered to internalize basic rules of grammar.)

“It goes without saying,” says Damask, “that I will not apologize for anything, that it is perfectly appropriate to discuss Islam, Muhammad, the Quran, the hadiths and any other matter related to Islamic terrorism. Incidentally: there has been no official complaint, no due process for me, just a mad scramble by the school to appease Islam.” Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent

 

[PoliticalChic]

Some good news!
"Prof Wins Free Speech Victory After College Panicked About Test Questions on Islamic Terrorism

VICTORY: Chancellor affirms professor’s academic freedom after Arizona college panicked over test questions about Islamic terrorism
The college tried to force professor Nicholas Damask to apologize for three quiz questions about Islamic terrorism that a student said were “in distaste of Islam.” Damask added that the college suggested he would be required to meet with an Islamic religious leader to review the content of his course.

“I’m happy that the Maricopa Community College governing board has acknowledged the importance of the First Amendment and academic freedom, even into subjects that may be controversial — without that freedom of thought and inquiry, America just isn’t America anymore,” said Damask, who has been teaching at SCC for 23 years. “And I’m grateful for groups like FIRE that are willing to stand by me in the fight to defend that freedom.”
The quiz questions asked about the context in which terrorism is justified by some in the Islamic religion, where in Islamic doctrine and law terrorism is encouraged by those who justify it, and who terrorists believe they are emulating, based on the material assigned in the course.

“Colleges can’t take away a professor’s academic freedom rights because they want to stem criticism on social media,” said Katlyn Patton, author of FIRE’s letter."

Prof Wins Free Speech Victory After College Panicked About Test Questions on Islamic Terrorism

"Colleges can’t take away a professor’s academic freedom rights because they want to stem criticism on social media"

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