Instead of the Fighting Illini, now they can call themselves the Dhimmi Illini. From AP, with thanks to Steve:
CHAMPAIGN, Illinois (AP) -- An editor who chose to publish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed in the University of Illinois' student-run newspaper last month has been fired, the paper's publisher announced Tuesday.Acton H. Gorton was suspended, with pay, from The Daily Illini days after the Feb. 9 publication of the cartoons, which sparked Muslim protests around the world after they first appeared in a Danish newspaper.
At the time, Daily Illini publishers said the action was taken against Gorton not for publishing the cartoons, but for failing to discuss it with others in the newsroom first.
The Illini Media Co. board of directors, which comprises students and faculty, voted unanimously to fire the editor after a review "found that Gorton violated Daily Illini policies about thoughtful discussion of and preparation for the publication of inflammatory material," according to a statement.
Gorton has said he sought out advice from The Daily Illini's former editor-in-chief and others before deciding to run the cartoons. He has said that accusations he tried to hide his decision were wrong.
On Tuesday, he called his firing a blow against free speech on college campuses.
"If I can be fired, what will other students think who maybe want to challenge the status quo?" said Gorton, who had briefly addressed a board meeting the previous night. "This is a bad precedent."
It certainly is.
An example of the creeping Islamification of the United States and the dhimmitude that accompanies those that take on the burden of the Islamic yoke upon their necks.
It is Islam that challenges the status quo. The status quo allows free speech. Nothing wrong with the status quo. Not broke, doesn't need Islam to fix it.
Long live the status quo. Not the band, obviously. Now they are challenged alright - musically. Only one decent song in decades, which was "Pictures of Matchstick Men".
Maybe he should start selling Tshirts with the same cartoons, or better still, toilet paper with either Muhammad's face on it or Koranic sura. However in both cases they would have to be sold as seconds, being already soiled.
We're already turning the other cheek to Islam.
Well here is the start to Dhimmi America.... The father of the house of freedom. This is a slap in the face of all the brave soldiers who paid the ultimate price for America in the American Civil war, WWI,WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
Young childrens must be taught the value of freedom, moral fibre and a brightly burning spirit.
Teach your childrens why firing this man was wrong...learn not to put cowards in charge...it's too important.
Looking forward delightedly to the triumph of Islam one day, worrying about the triumph of Islam the next -- will the real Naseem please stand up? Or perhaps this merely reflects the kaleidoscopic mental shifts that Islam, its intellectual mostly gone, but its emotional hold, the hold of filial and civilizational piety, still present, constantly contending, with now aggressive pride, and now worried doubts, being expressed by turns.
Hugh:
If you get a chance, please deconstruct this incredibly interesting article on the Institute of the Arab World in Paris. Bat Ye'or mentions it 3 times in her book Eurabia and, as you can see, it really is concrete evidence of the Eurabian game plan of France:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/arts/design/15mond.html?pagewanted=print
March 15, 2006
A Cultural Touchstone Connecting Europe and Islam
By ALAN RIDING
PARIS, March 14 — With memories still fresh of recent riots in immigrant suburbs of Paris, with anger still simmering over Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad, the Institute of the Arab World (Institut du Monde Arabe) on the banks of the Seine might seem an unlikely refuge from the tensions straining relations between European and Muslim societies.
Yet on a recently chilly Sunday, large crowds of French men, women and children — and only a smattering of foreigners — were visiting the institute to see an exhibition called "The Golden Age of Arab Sciences." And by the time the show closes on Sunday, its organizers expect to have received more than 200,000 visitors.
Further, this is not a one-off phenomenon. A 2004-5 exhibition devoted to the Pharaohs notched up a remarkable 700,000 visitors over eight months. In recent years, a score of other popular shows at the institute have also highlighted both the artistic heritage and the modern creativity of a variety of Arab countries, from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, to Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
In other words, for all the talk of a fresh schism between Christian and Islamic worlds, for all the perception of mounting resentment in European societies toward Muslim immigrants, a good number of French people at least seem interested in learning more about Arab culture.
So can culture serve as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East?
In recent decades, the traffic has been largely one way, with Western popular culture — movies, television, music and fashion — penetrating Islamic countries much as colonial power did in the 19th century. Yet something of a rediscovery of Islamic art is now under way in the West, with new Islamic galleries in the works at the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and many other major museums.
Still, the prevailing perception is that the European and Arab worlds are strangers who must learn to respect one another as equals. And this is where a show like "The Golden Age of Arab Sciences" can throw valuable light on the relationship. It demonstrates that in art, architecture, medicine, engineering, mathematics, geography and astronomy, these worlds are not in fact strangers. Most pertinently, they share common roots in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Persia, Egypt and Mesopotamia. When Islam was born in the seventh century, however, Europe was in the Dark Ages, the chaotic post-Roman era. And while Arab power was first manifest through military might — its empire embracing the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and much of Spain — Arab scholars picked up in many areas where the Greeks had left off.
A crucial tool was translation, first of Indian and Greek texts into Arabic, then later of these and other Arab-language texts into Latin and Hebrew. In mathematics, for instance, while the Greeks made important advances in geometry, the Arabs became masters of algebra (our very word is Arabic in origin, al-jabr) and trigonometry. Having adopted the zero from India, they also turned it into the key to multiplication.
The exhibition at the institute tracks the development of Arab sciences through a series of fine objects, many, as it happens, borrowed from Western collections. There are stunning bronze astrolabes used to map the sky as well as 10th-century maps underlining the importance of geography to the empire; small hand-held compasses were, in turn, vital for determining the direction of Mecca at prayer time.
Chemistry is a good example of how knowledge flowed: in ninth-century Baghdad, the show explains, Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian texts were translated into Arabic, enabling Arab scholars to advance their own research. Similarly, enormous progress was recorded in medicine, illustrated here by anatomical drawings and surgical instruments. Hospitals and medical schools were active in Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad and even Córdoba, Spain.
Engineering and art came together to create perhaps the best known Arab "science," architecture. The 10th-century mosque of Córdoba — occupied by a Roman Catholic church after the "re-conquest" of Spain — is among its treasures. Indeed, through the Arab presence in Spain and Portugal, Arab architectural style, including decorative tiles, reached Latin America.
What makes this exhibition so different from the traditional displays of Islamic art in Western museums is that it not only reminds viewers of the extraordinary dynamism of Arab civilization between the 8th and 14th centuries, but also gives Arab culture its rightful place as one of the fonts of European art and science. In that sense, the Institute of the Arab World is fulfilling one of its mandates, that of deepening French knowledge of the Arab world.
And yet, despite the success of its exhibitions, the institute remains something of a strange hybrid: located southeast of Notre-Dame, in a striking building designed by Jean Nouvel, it has operated since 1987 as a partnership between France and 22 Arab countries. Its 150-member staff is multinational, but it is headed by a French political appointee, at present an octogenarian Gaullist, Yves Guéna. Further, while all its partners are committed to supporting its annual budget of $26 million, some Arab countries fail to pay up, with the result that the French Foreign Ministry is regularly called on to cover the deficit ($3 million last year).
As a cultural body ultimately subject to French and Arab political whims, then, the institute's freedom to address contemporary issues between Europe and the Arab world is limited. Many of its conferences and debates address cultural subjects or nonpolitical themes like health, although two recent debates were topical: one addressed the culture of violence under Saddam Hussein; the other explored North Africa's "memory" of French colonialism.
Some French and Arab scholars nonetheless believe that the institute is well placed to do more to stimulate exchanges on broader issues dividing Europe and the Arab world. And many French appear to be ready. As the crowds flocking to the institute's exhibitions testify, they are more open to the Arab world than recent headlines might suggest.
Assalmau Alaikum Mentat,
A lot of peoples (particularly muslims) reflect on the golden age of Islam ...when lots of scientific discoveries were being put forward for the good of mankind.
Actually the truth is far different. These scientists in actual fact were greeks, byzantyne, christan etc. who infact had been converted by the sword/bribery etc. "convert or die"....so they converted ...continued with their work ...and the golden scientific age of Islam was born.
However it is the generations after these few initial generations that in my humble opinion are even more important.
The childrens of these scientists will have been brought up as proper muslims...prayer 5 times a day...assimilation of true Islamic values, fighting , reading of the Quaran.... not for them the values of maths or science and *WHAM*....the scientific discoveries are all gone.
How else can you possibly explain muslim scientific dying out so quickly.
I think we have a hacker playing tricks this morning, Naseems sudden change from religion of peace spouting troll to the more enlightened person she is today had some help. In the past she signed on with "Assalmau Alaikum" and today "Assalma Laikuam" an Arab would include the "U". Still it's funny to see her switch sides over night. I'd bet she is pulling her hair out and getting ready to attack an innocent infidel and possibly burn a few cars by now. She does enough damage to her own reputation she didn’t really need your help. Whoever you really are thanks for the laugh and please don’t hack me as I am already disturbed at the idea of defending Naseem’s good/bad name.
Danish Prosecutor Won't Charge Newspaper
16 minutes ago
Denmark's top prosecutor said Wednesday he will not press charges against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad drawings that triggered deadly protests by Muslims worldwide.
The Foreign Ministry said the decision could cause "negative reactions" against Danes and warned citizens to be cautious when traveling in Muslim countries.
Director of Public Prosecutions Henning Fode upheld the decision of a regional prosecutor, who said the drawings published in Jyllands-Posten Sept. 30 did not violate Danish law. Fode's decision cannot be appealed.
His ruling said the 12 cartoons, one of which shows the prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb, did not violate bans on racist and blasphemous speech.
"My decision is that there is no violation of the said rules of the Danish Criminal Code," Fode said in a statement.
A regional prosecutor said Jan. 7 that the drawings were protected by freedom of speech laws and did not violate bans on racism and blasphemy. A group of Danish Muslims said at the time they would appeal the ruling to the top prosecutor.
Naseem you have me all confused now...is your change of direction part of the Islamic standard of deception towards all nonMuslims, is it because yoy are now becoming worried about the deserved antiislam swing across the world, or are you actually seeing the light by seeing the crippling mental darkness which is islam?
Yes Ronin I am confused also...but WTF!! one swallow does not make a summer but you can always hope.
Zathras as you well know I really enjoy fighting with my misguided foe Naseem, I’m telling you it is not her although I have never believed she is really a she. Naseem is a male pretending to be a female moderate muslim. I say pretending because there is no such animal as a moderate muslim. The Arabic language is very complicated I have picked up a few phrases in my travels and know enough to know the middle of each word is the root and the beginning and end vastly change the meaning. An Arab would know this and not confuse "Assalmau Alaikum" and "Assalma Laikuam" in English it translates to “Peace be with you” I’m still trying to figure out what “Assalma Laikuam” would workout too. Just like English take out a few letters and the sentence just reads wrong.
The editor needs to see a lawyer to find out if there are legalmechanisms to appeal this decision. Since the University of Illinois is a state institution, let's see if any of the trustees will stand up for Gorton or will any member of the legislature make a move to corrrect this outrage. Also, all private donors to the university need to cut off funds until they re-affirm freedom.
Ronin, It would not suprise me if "she" really were a "he" as seeing as us westerners are so soft on women(as perceived by muslim males) then he could get away with more outrageous statements here. Certainly he/she is determined though.
I have seen about three so far pack up and leave JH forever.
"An example of the creeping Islamification of the United States..."
Creeping Islamification would get nowhere, would slink away with its tail between its legs, were there no Galloping PC to pave the way.
Well said, Provoslavni. For starters, I don't imagine that decisions surrounding publication of Toles, Oliphant, or Trudeau has ever required a formal vote of the Board, so just what the hell is so special about these political cartoons? Go ahead -- print them out large, and put them on easels in front of the jury, right next to any of a thousand other political cartoons that have been previously featured in the Daily Illini, and ask the jury why he should be fired for these over here, but not those over there. Hell, their might even be a pulitzer in it for Daily Illini's coverage of the trial.
Naseem asks:"How else can you posslibly explain Muslim scentific dying out so quickly?."
Well, the simple reason being Islam and scientific inventions are two poles apart. I have gone through a book titled ' 1001 Islamic inventions '.All the So called inventions mentioned were bogus. To give you an example,Air plane was invented by a Muslim in Babylone thousands of years before the Right Brothers. This Muslim inventor Jumped from the Tallest Mosque ,with a gadget fixed to his two atretched arms,in which,the words of the Koran were written. He could fly around the Mosque three times. It says further, Neel Armstrong,though an American ,could set forth his legs in moon first becsuse,he was carrying with him a copy of koran with him,and he had secretly converted to Islam, before taking up this journey to the moon.
Muslims want to boost the immage of Islam to a new would-be convert. They go on singing the benefits of begoming a Muslim,by quoting all these ficticious achievements of Islam,such as the scientific acivements of Muslims. Dr Ahmed Sakr.PHd in his book called "Benifits of becomming a Muslim" (www.Jannah.org/benefits.html)
states that even before the American Astronauts went to moon,Muslim Astronauts-Adam and Eve have come down to earth from Jannath (heavan).!!. Further,he states,that by doing namaaz(Muslim Prayer) daily,Muslims get a pleasant looking face(!) and they are able to control anger,and provocations easily,which the infedals cannot .He says,just because Muslims touch the ground by their foreheads while praying,they get rid of all the diseases of their bodies to the earth ,and that is the main reason,why Muslims are so healthy and peaceful.
Muslim world consists majority of illiterates. What ever their Mullas say in Mosque during friday prayers,they believe as God 's words.
Mullahs boost the 'morale' of their Muslim flock by saying,'you are the owners of the entire earth.,You are the most pleasnt looking humans,as you worship Allah.,-Every new invetion in this earth is invented by Muslims,which are falsy attributed to infedals.''etc.
The trouble with us is ,we don't counter expose their lies. Either,we are not concerned,or we are afraid of their violent response,-which is the main reason,I think for the Illini Media Co board of Directors and faculty ,who fired the bold Editor ,for his publication of those infamous cartoons.It is the duty of the students of this institution to protest for the firing,as they are living in a free country.
THIS EXEMPLARY MAN HAS SERVED IN OUR MILITARY! He has worked a bit and is not a spoiled college student
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http://www.actongorton.com/biography.html
Name: Acton H. Gorton
Birthday: 31 July 1980
Place of birth: Indianola, Mississippi
Hometown: Carbondale, Illinois
High school: Carbondale Community High School
Higher education: University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Major: B.S. Print Journalism
Entire list of classes taken:
- Advertising for Integrated Marketing and Communications
- Art Appreciation
- Roman Achievements throughout History
- Mythology of Greece and Rome
- Introduction the the Media
- Social and Cultural Geography
- US History since 1877
- Introduction to Journalism
- Introduction to Human Physiology
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Principles of Composition
- Elementary Spanish I and II
- Public Speaking
- Physics
- Writing Seminar on Technology and Security
- Reporting I
- Press and the Modern Presidency
- Introduction to International Relations
- Law and Communications
- International Reporting - Peru
- Comparative Politics in Developing Nations
Work experience:
- Computer Technician: Aug 96 - Feb 98
- U.S. Army Infantry: Jul 98 - Aug 01
- US Army Reserves Combat Medic: May 02 - Jul 04
- Phlebotomist: Sep 03 - Jul 04
- Reporter: Aug 04 - May 05
- Managing Editor: Aug 05 - Jan 05
- Incoming Editor in Chief: Jan 05 - Jan 06
Guys
Just ignore Naseem. If you are going to get different people who know her typekey login & password and posting their individual views, you don't know squat about what you're dealing with.
She's a fraud. If we had killfiles on J/W the way they exist on Usenet, or e-mail junk filters, I'd just have her there, and keep reading for real info/views.
Infidel Pride:
Anybody who writes in English "The childrens of..." and then, in the same breath, "moral fiber" is faking it. Any ESOL instructor can tell you that.
How can we help the fired editor?
Anybody who writes in English "The childrens of..." and then, in the same breath, "moral fiber" is faking it. Any ESOL instructor can tell you that.
I've been saying this kind of thing, on and off, ever since "Naseem" started posting.
Why, oh why, do your fellow "Amrikans", as "she" call you from time to time, believe she is real?
It's frieghtening how quickly the progressives are willing to throw their hands up and surrender our rights.
Islam is the true religion. Long live Islam!