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:
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.
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.
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.