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Funny thing: why didn't the Vast Majority of Muslim Moderates at Dartmouth put a stop to this before pressure was brought from outside? From Dartmouth Online, with thanks to Nicolei:
A series of recent editorials and letters to the editor concerning controversial statements on the Al-Nur Dartmouth Muslim Student Association website have sparked a controversy over whether the student group should be subject to sanctions for placing offensive material on its website.The strife began after a piece entitled "Preaching Hatred at Dartmouth" ran in the June 29 issue of The Dartmouth. The author, Ilya Feoktistov '06, described several passages found on Al-Nur's website that he deemed to be anti-Semitic. The passages included an inflammatory hadith -- one of the sayings of Muhammad that is sacred to Islam -- and commentary by a Pakistani Muslim religious authority on several hadiths.
Feoktistov discovered this material approximately one year ago while searching through Al-Nur's website. However, he did not take action until April when requests from Jewish students to use the Pavilion Dining Hall to celebrate Israeli Independence Day were denied, and a member of Al-Nur described Israeli independence as a "terrible tragedy" in a BlitzMail message that was later forwarded to Feoktistov.
"He viewed this day as a day of great tragedy, which I viewed as anti-Semitic." Feoktistov said. "It made me worry about anti-Semitism within Al-Nur, not just within their website."
Feoktistov's editorial concerned links to controversial passages on the Al-Nur site, including one which read: "The Messenger of Allah said, 'The Last Hour will not come until the Muslims fight against the Jews, until a Jew will hide himself behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or the tree will say: 'O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.'"
Al-Nur removed the material in question quickly after Feoktistov's editorial was published. In addition, Sajid Huq '04 issued a published apology on behalf of Al-Nur.
"The offensive views are resoundingly dissonant with the views held by Muslim students on this campus," Huq wrote, "and we urge people to exercise good judgment if they ever encounter hateful material under the umbrella of Islam, which unfortunately is not hard to run into."
Former Al-Nur president Adil Ahmad '05, said that the presence of the controversial material on the site was a matter of neglect. However, Ahmad questioned Feoktistov's concerns that the material reflected a deeper enmity of Jews within the Al-Nur organization.
"We didn't read the commentaries," said Ahmad, who serves as the webmaster for Al-Nur's website. "If you remove the context, [the passages] seem very offensive." Ahmad went on to explain that the particular hadith dealt with a "war with a tribe of Jews 1,400 years back," and the passage is "specific to that war only."
Mmm-hmmm. Funny how it mentions the Last Days, then, and that radical Muslims around the world seem to have missed that interpretation.
Posted by Robert at July 16, 2004 1:41 PM
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Someone answer me this: are not arabs of the Same semitic stock (or close to it) as the Jews?
Does this not mean that anti-semite arabs hate themselves?
It would explain a lot.
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at July 16, 2004 1:52 PM
These pieces were written and published because Muslims have had the upper hand at many universities and other places and have been able to get away with saying and doing precisely what they want by labeling critics bigots, racists, nazis, islamophobes, etc. It's about time that the shoe is on the other foot!
Posted by: epg at July 16, 2004 2:56 PM
fortunately (or unfortunately), muslims do not have the upper hand at most universities. Rather, muslims have an apparent cultural expertise in self-pity, which has apparently resulted in every left wing crying liberal to see the religion of decapitation as something besides its true self.
Islam has a long proud history of having it's dhimmis (enslaved suckers) do its dirty work for it. i suspect the nazi's learned a thing or two from the muslims...
at July 16, 2004 3:46 PM
Most campus "hate speech" watchdogs are too busy keeping their eyes out on Christians, Republicans, and other such people to note Islamic hate-mongering until it blows up in their faces. Also, Islam's "minority" status tends to protect it.
Posted by: Kepha1 at July 16, 2004 11:46 PM
"The Messenger of Allah said, 'The Last Hour will not come until the Muslims fight against the Jews, until a Jew will hide himself behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or the tree will say: 'O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.'"
Specific to an incident 1400 years ago?
It's one of Muhammad's "prophacies". Name the "event" that this surah belongs to, Reza, or any lying Muslim.
This Moron is suggesting there is no "Jew hate" in the Koran specific to all time? I guess he doesn't listen to the daily hate speeches that come from Islam's "spiritual leaders", nor read the koran.
The koran is full of Anti Jew rants by Muhammad (allah). It's the main and constant theme throughout.
Posted by: Mullah_Abu_Bin_Boobie at July 17, 2004 2:58 AM
Hmmmmm...Perhaps people should be arguing that the Koran is "hate speech". From what I have read, it is a filthy book filled with hatred towards jews and christians. Any nation with strong "hate speech" laws should be prepared to use them to prevent the distribution of such a disgusting document.
Posted by: Buck at July 19, 2004 1:56 PM
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