Purdue prof sues university for disciplining him over comments insulting to Islam

He dared to insult Muhammad, and you know, that's illegal. What's that? The First Amendment? Pah! Eisenstein has violated multiculturalist sensibilities (and Islam's blasphemy laws, which coincide neatly with those sensibilities). Sharia Alert from Purdue University: "Prof sues over Muslim tiff," by Charles Wilson for the Associated Press, May 18 (thanks to Twostellas):

INDIANAPOLIS – A Purdue University political science professor has sued officials and other professors at the school’s campus in northwest Indiana for the treatment he received after he posted criticism of Muslims on Facebook.

Maurice Eisenstein claims in the suit that Purdue-Calumet officials violated his rights of freedom of speech and religion by subjecting him to a disciplinary investigation which eventually yielded mixed results.

The lawsuit filed May 10 in a Lake County court says Eisenstein was cleared of the initial allegation that he had violated the school’s policy against discrimination and harassment, but officials reprimanded him for what they considered retaliation against the two professors who filed the complaints.

“This is not the first time and it won’t be the last time we will see a university punish a student or professor for constitutionally protected speech on Facebook. Professors at public universities should not have to go to court to defend their free speech rights,” Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said in a statement Wednesday.

FIRE, a non-profit educational foundation devoted to free speech, has sent letters to Chancellor Thomas Keon advocating Eisenstein’s position and tried to raise public awareness, but is not involved in the suit, said Adam Kissel, the group’s vice president.

The complaints were filed last fall amid student protests on the Hammond campus, citing comments Eisenstein, a 64-year-old Orthodox Jew, made inside and outside his classroom.

The complaints followed posts on his personal Facebook page questioning the response of moderate Muslims to other Muslims killing Christians in Nigeria, and insulting the prophet Muhammed....

The suit alleges that officials and professors conspired to smear Eisenstein’s reputation. It says officials violated Eisenstein’s rights of free speech and religion under the Indiana Constitution....

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Purdue University? Pah! It should be called Pursue (Sharia) University!

He dared to insult Muhammad?
how exactly did he insult Muhammad?
Did he call him pedophile, assassin, incestuous, robber, pervert, murderer, liar, bewitched, war criminal, sexually impotent, gay, exhibitionist, adulterer, transvestite, tongue sucker, penis kisser, necrophiliac, rapist, torturer, suicidal, demon-possessed, satanic...?

And even if he did, so what? it's IN THEIR BOOKS!!!

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

"complaints followed posts on his personal Facebook page...insulting the prophet Muhammed...."

I'm not exactly clear how someone living today can insult an individual who died almost 1400 years ago.

I still want to shame those Canadian Corporation that fail to tell the Share Holders that they fund public and Community events where a Pro-hamas group take part in it as has a valid Staning by the Org in chrge to allow the group there.
Yes folks , the rumours are already flying about Toronto's PRIDE parade allowing the QUAIA (Queers Against Israeli Aparteid) group to march next to the same homosexuals that would be hung in Iran or brutally murdered in Gaza .
The big banks in canada that Morally and Financially endorse these yahoos are , TD/Canada Trust and BMO Nesbitt Burns( also own Harris Bank USA). It's bad enough the CAIR still pushes for Mosqueing the Workplaces and still wants Shariah law for canada, but the average person must swallow this tripe or quit there job as I did becaise I WILL NOT drink the Taqqiyah Kool-ade or islamofascism doctrines and prented that islam=peace and that all Cultures are equal.

Time for more people to counter this vile and hate-filled spreading of fascism by launching lawsuits to defends personal Liberties and Rights . This will put the onus on the weak and fragile Judges to choose which side THEY are on , the side that wants a civial war, or, to defend what a Civial war fought to end which was Slavery and tyranny by religions or those in power thinks they were gods.

what? we are talikng about muhamad and allah here dude!!!!!!
never insult them!! never!!
M

I hear a signing canpaign starting, "If" I knew how I'd do it but I will sign and I will let everyone know.

WE'RE ON A ROLL HERE PEOPLE LET'S GO FOR 100 MILLION SIGNERS!!

i think you might be able to change some of your presentation by adding to your catalogue: contrived (under the watchful eye of the Allah god, of course)

Eisenstein reads like he's got his head screwed on clockwise.

It goes without saying, that AP were too gutless to quote what Elsenstein actually said about Mohammed.

"The complaints followed posts on his personal Facebook page questioning the response of moderate Muslims to other Muslims killing Christians in Nigeria, and insulting the prophet Muhammed...."

Did he get any response from moderate Muslims explaining why Muslims are killing Christians in Nigeria?

Greetings:

Once again, I see an example of "the process is the punishment" which is becoming even more prevalent in our 21st Century, to encourage (or more likely discourage) the others.

I'm rather ashamed my beloved alma mater has besmirched its good name with this job action. I sure hope FIRE lights a fire under their a$$es and get this rectified.

But, as with most other major universities, the MSA snuck in some years ago and spread their nefarious tentacles on the main campus (West Lafayette). For this reason, I no longer give Purdue money.

(The Purdue MSA chapter wisely keeps a pretty low profile; I keep a close watch on their dawa events.)

OT


LOL, here's the latest on Elhagaly's petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/please-support-our-fight-against-hate-in-america#

As usual, they're using the islamic "victimhood" tactic and the made-up word "islamophobia" (I am not an islamophobe, which would imply an *irrational* fear of islam. I am a proud islamoloathe.) to cloud the issue, which is the criminal mutilation of female children.

I am not ashamed of my previous statements, which many of you know are often in response to muslims' agressive statements of worldwide islamic supremacy and domination and admonitions about the ultimate demise of the "Infidels" at the hands of their muslim conquerors.

Hussam Al-Deen (another pseudonym, just like Al-Haj - the doctor did not dare publish under his legal name, Elhagaly) also confuses me with Raven King, the petition organizer, a health-and-wellness activist. I guess he should read Jihad Watch more often, to keep up with the news.

To clarify ONCE AGAIN:

My political views have absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand, i.e., the advocacy of the criminal mutilation of female children.

However, it's always so convenient for muslims to cry "islamophobia" when they're caught red-handed. Of course, we're used to their attempts at deflection by now.

From http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/tough-questions-over-sex-crimes-for-britains-pakistani-community/

interesting data and perhaps some nauseating white-washing of the Rochdale crimes...

[Out of 77 recent convictions for grooming, rape and other predatory sex crimes, 67 involved Pakistani men. The majority of suspects who commit sex crimes in large groups — as opposed to acting alone — tend to be of Pakistani origin. One study about such groups found that 83 percent of 52 suspects charged in five major grooming investigations were Pakistani.]....

[The Rochdale Council of Mosques, an umbrella organization representing 14 mosques and madrassas, issued this statement recently: “This is not a race, faith or creed issue. It is about crime and exploitation of young vulnerable girls, and vulnerability goes across the color divides.”

Women’s rights groups back this line of reasoning. Speaking to the Guardian, Marai Larasi, co-chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said “an excessive focus on some cases of sexual exploitation with a primary focus on ethnicity rather than the exploitation itself is misleading and fuels racist attitudes which ultimately won’t help women and girls.”]

It's long past time that some lawfare started being waged by the *good* guys.

Go man go! Sue 'em up and down, Professor Eisenstein.

Ladies and gentlemen: letters or messages of support to Professor Eisenstein would be in order, *especially* if you are a student or alumnus of Purdue.

Academic freedom has been under attack by the Muslims and their fellow-travellers for years not only in the USA but right across the western world - and beyond it, in places like India.

I remember both Canon Patrick Sookhdeo and Bishop Michael Nazir Ali talking about how it had become difficult to criticise Islam in the course of academic research in the UK. Patrick Sookhdeo's own wife, Rosemary, was prevented from publishing her dissertation and was denied her degree, because her research led her to conclusions that were construed as unacceptable critique of Islam (this research she later turned into a book, 'Secrets Behind the Burqa').

A pushback is long overdue.

Let it begin in earnest at Purdue.


Cindy, you're a voice of sanity in a crazy old world. :-)

Many people just don't want to hear the truth, especially if the truth shows the hearer to be less than they tell themselves they are.
Jesus Christ was killed for telling the truth.
Those who do not believe this and argue differently do not change the thinking of those who accept it as fact.

In the world in which we now find ourselves, it is becoming increasingly hard to get away with telling the truth. And it is quite insane. Rather like someone eating cheese and proclaiming, "This cheese tastes moldy," and those hearing say, "How dare you insult the cheese!"

I'm afraid I would be in trouble quite often at Purdue as I tend to say what I think. And I don't believe the old dead guy who married a child and murdered others was a prophet from the True and Only God.

I think that the pattern I see here is this:

All schools try to enforce the propagation of their societies' ruling ideas at many levels, who gets to teach and how they are treated being one.

The problem here is not so much that his rights were violated, unless you consider the school, his employer, as a branch of the gov't. Congress shall make no law, etc ... Congress isn't making any laws here, even by distant inference.

The problem is that the university elite is HOSTILE to our society's (once) ruling ideas. They are enforcing the protection of Islam's ideas, not ours.

The means by which they do so are a bit excessive, at least by my standards, but are not the main issue.

The main issue is that they are out to destroy America.

And the biggest and worst problem is that our side is NOT WILLING to treat them as harshly as they deserve.

Those "Purdue-Calumet officials" should all be unemployed right now.

If you pray, I recommend that you pray hard. The wolves are circling.

Seems to me that they'd have to prove he existed prior to proving he'd been a prophet. Then prove the existence of Allah so that the possibility of the need for prophets was validated. Then prove that Allah actually needed Mohammed to be his little personal prophet. Then prove that he actually was a prophet for Allah prior to being insulted as a prophet. Good luck with all that. What a bunch of idiots. I hope he wins his law suit and lives happily ever after. Free speech forever!

You wrote

"If you pray, I recommend that you pray hard. The wolves are circling."

Let us chant Tehillim...

That's if Muhammad, aka 'prophet of Islam', even existed!
How exactly does one 'insult' a myhical being who never was?

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