Once havens of tolerance, Iraq's universities are becoming battlefields in an escalating civil war. From Time magazine, with thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Rebecca Bynum:
On May 3, when the members of Iraq's new government were sworn in, Masar Sarhan al-Rubaiyi, 24, a pharmacy undergraduate at the University of Baghdad, decided to throw a party. As a supporter of a Shi'ite political party, al-Rubaiyi was celebrating the ascent of the country's Shi'ite majority after decades of repression under Saddam Hussein. But the revelry turned sour after officials at the college of pharmacy asked al-Rubaiyi and his friends to break up the event, saying it violated a university policy banning sectarian gatherings on campus. The students refused the request, and al-Rubaiyi scuffled with the bodyguard of the dean of the pharmacy college, Mustafa al-Hiti, before heading home. He never made it. A few hours later, he was shot and killed by unknown assailants on a street near his house.
It's what happened next that has put the school on edge—and induced worries that al-Rubaiyi's death could spark a wider, bloodier conflagration. In the aftermath of the killing, mobs of Shi'ite students rioted at the college of pharmacy, blaming al-Hiti and his bodyguard—both of them Sunnis—for al-Rubaiyi's murder and vowing revenge. Al-Hiti and his bodyguard deny having anything to do with the murder. As the violence spread to a cluster of adjacent colleges, Sunni faculty members had to be evacuated by security guards, colleagues and students. When the rioters showed up, they trashed classrooms and teachers' offices. Then came the reprisals: the next day, a Shi'ite law student who was close to al-Rubaiyi was found dead, fueling suspicions of an organized attempt to silence prominent Shi'ite voices on campus. "The atmosphere is now very tense," says Meitham, a pharmacy student who, along with others, does not want his full name used. "There is a sense that anything can happen, at any time."
For millions of Iraqis, it's a familiar concern. The country has been facing its most deadly spasm of violence in a year: last month alone, attacks killed more than 600 Iraqis, many of them Shi'ites targeted by Sunni jihadis bent on sowing civil war. The country's universities have long served as the bulwark of Iraq's secular society, refuges from the sectarian strife that threatens to rip the country apart. But now violence has come to the campuses. A rocket attack on an engineering college in the heart of Baghdad two weeks ago killed two students and injured 17 others. Bombs have been found at several colleges, leading many universities to institute full-body searches at their gates. Radical religious groups have infiltrated many student bodies, intimidating students and teachers alike. Some prominent Iraqis say the surge in extremism on campus holds grave portents for Iraq. "Once this poison enters the campus and infects the minds of our young people," says Mohammad Jaffer al-Samarrai, a geography professor in Baghdad, "then all hope is lost for society."...
Yes indeed. Read it all.
"then all hope is lost for society."...
Theirs, not mine...Allah is merciful, compassionate, and oft forgiving...And, he always knows best...
"then all hope is lost for society."...
Sometimes the only hope I think there is for the world, is for the people of Islam to wake up and smell what this religion is all about, hopefully sparking a world wide collapse of this cult.
Wishfull thinking I know.
Sometimes the only hope I think there is for the world, is for the people of Islam to wake up and smell what this religion is all about, hopefully sparking a world wide collapse of this cult.
3rdtimelucky, this is EXACTLY what needs to happen.
They are too voluminous. They need to collapse like the USSR. From the inside.
Islam is a culture of violence.
Period.
Wherever it shows up, you have misery, terror, death.
It needs to be eradicated from our planet.
Period.
Once havens of tolerance..no longer.
The "pure believers" have spoken and therefore problems arise. One would have hoped that the students would have enough respect of the professors to not damage the place.
After all, damage it today, but attend the place tomorrow and say "who is their right mind would do this?"
As the professors are all muslim the bias as to whether they are sunni or shia will now come into play and affect the quailty of education. Can you imagine "I should have got an "A" but instead got a C....it must be because I am a shia sutdent & the prof. is sunni.
Time to get in some neutral (i.e. Kafir)professors, who's up for teaching the Iraqi elite?
"Once this poison enters the campus and infects the minds of our young people," says Mohammad Jaffer al-Samarrai, a geography professor in Baghdad, "then all hope is lost for society."...
Perhaps he hasn't heard: "FREEDOM'S ON THE MARCH!"
make iraq an islam-free zone. close all mosques and convert them into grocery stores. on the highways entering iraq, post signs reading "you are entering an islam free zone-all violators will be prosecuted". give islamic muslims 7 day visas for entering and leaving iraq or face expulsion.
make it known that from henceforth all qurans are banned as subversive.
enforce these laws and there will hopefully be no more squabbling between different sects of islam because they will all be illegal. outlaw the sunni sect. outlaw the shia sect. outlaw all islamic sects because obviously all muslims have the unpredictable potential to morph into terrorists.
correctly assume that islam and freedom are incompatible, and this would force the iraq people, and later muslims worldwide, to choose between freedom and islam, exactly where the choice should lie. if large numbers still choose islam, then we have a new war to fight, with a more well defined enemy this time, and with any conflicted loyalties to islam eliminated from the picture.
these actions would hopefully solidly unite the muslim populace against islam and give the different islamic sects something greater to aspire to, that of secular and religious freedom. it would also give them something greater to fear, namely, the staying out of jail for the avoidance of practicing islam in any way.
completely replace iraq's laws and judicial system to mirror that of the usa and other free, pluralistically religion-neutral countries. import judges and lawyers into iraq if we have to.
we must create the conditions which will lead to a victory for freedom. as we are now seeing, to side with any of the sects of islam leads to disgruntlement in other islamic sects, and violence. i believe the existence of these various sects is no accident, and that this is a clever survival mechanism of islam, that of islam violently collapsing upon itself through sectarian violence, and of course in the mean time putting our troops in harm's way. let us not be caught in the middle. let us ban all islamic sects and put them under the tent of freedom. then they will wonder what they were fighting about and freedom will be achieved.
it's a matter of culturally disabusing and extricating muslims from their various muslim tribal loyalties. it's not that muslims have to become christians or anything. it's just that muslims must be made to elect secular and religious freedom in place of islam.
so instead of trying to bring in the sunnis under one islamic roof, islam itself should be eliminated in one fell swoop, just like islamists try to eliminate our free speech and other rights here in the west.
islam itself is not workable. until we eliminate islam, our soldiers are falling into this islamic disharmony trap where keeping peace becomes a maelstrom. we shouldn't leave iraq. we should just ban islam in iraq and then track all muslims within iraq and expel them. if no one is left in iraq, then fine. those middle eastern muslims who do want freedom with no islam in iraq will immmigrate into iraq. then we can repeat the process in iran, etc, until many countries are displaced into free countries and the pariah countries become isolated and more hard core terrorist. it's all good. it's all about choices and voting with one's non-islamic feet, if the particular freedom-loving muslim has any feet, ears or hands left. this is sad and inhumane!
ban islam in all it's forms and the problems of disunity and terror in iraq and in the world will begin to be solved. iraqis could then get their minds on a new system of freedom without the cross-currents of conflict that will always plague islam.
through further military campaigns, make the banning of islam spread to neighboring countries and make it where individuals in the middle east are be allowed to choose any religion except islam. right now it is the other way around. people are only allowed to choose islam and then never allowed to leave islam except under penalty of death. islam is like the song "hotel california" personified, where "you can never leave".
right now there is so much destructive infighting within islam which only favors chaos and instability. i believe this chaos itself is a defense mechanism of islam which promotes the expansion of islam and keeps islam viable. such islamic chaos quite probably is a protective strategem of satan.
as long as chaos and mayhem can be prolonged, then freedom cannot take hold while the resources of freedom are eroded.
people are what they believe. muslims are pawns in this destruction of the west. beginning with the ideological cause, islam, we must stop muslims from hurting themselves and each other by replacing their belief system. we must stop islam from threatening world stability and free trade. to stop the islamic hatred fueling this conflagration of craziness, we should stop playing favorites with islamic sects and all islamic sects should be forcibly banned so the entire middle east can unite under one single banner of freedom. we must create the conditions for this freedom by banning islam. in short, being an islamic muslim should be criminalized and made into a prosecutable offense in iraq, and later, throughout the world.
otherwise, muslims will continue to be be like contentious children, unable to get along and endlessly fighting and fomenting anarchy until the attendant and predictable destruction could conveniently give birth to a new islamic world with the antichrist at the reigns.
if the terrorists get portable nukes, assuming they do not already have them, we are all toast, as is freedom.
then, after the nuclear destruction, the whole world would fall into line under the antichrist. not to leave anyone without hope, jesus christ will certainly return to earth and rule the world, but all of this will take time, probably seven years from the start of antichrist's reign when antichrist makes a treaty with israel and then breaks it 3 1/2 years later. at any rate, under antichrist we will all take the mark, stamp or tatoo on our right hand or forehead and bow down to the image of antichrist, or be beheaded. doesn't this beheading sound strikingly similar to the treatment of westerners in iraq. therefore, i believe such telltale clues suggest that the antichrist could be a muslim. if still on this earth, i personally will choose beheading and the irrevocable preservation of my soul in jesus christ. how about you?
anyway, if we can somehow prevent the nuclear terrorists from destroying us, then maybe it will be the predicted comet of 2012 that will throw the world into turmoil. stock up your food before 2012 my friends as i find it very curious that the mayan calendar ends abruptly in 2012 and the mayans were no slouches in regard to celestial timing.
conceivably however, the current iraqi shia/sunni infighting could be the start of a plan to disruptively install islamic sharia government worldwide while weakening the western powers.
by fighting only the terrorists of islam or certain sects, we are only treating the symptoms of this islamic smokescreen and not the cause itself, which is the whole belief system of islam.
the result could be our eventual defeat at the hands of islam which, through deception, drew us into it's infighting where we got predictably caught up in the crossfire between muslim sects and next, muslim nations. we must eliminate the sects of islam before they team up and oppose us intra-nationally. we should ban islam outright and start over.
i am not against the iraq war. i am just saying that it could be a trap for us unless we redefine the enemy as islam in general.
make iraq an islam-free haven for all persecuted people in the middle east. at the iraqi border crossings erect statues of liberty bearing the words "give me your tired and weary persecuted muslims who long for freedom."