Question: When is a professor not a teacher but a propagandist? Answer: When he forces your intellectual hand, constraining you by means subtle or open to accept his point of view on a given issue. A genuine academic does not think for his students, but trains and equips them to do so. He is not […]
Archives for August 2007
“The meaning of killing a Jew for the liberation of Palestine cannot be compared to any Jihad on earth”
The HLF trial, in which CAIR is heavily implicated, continues with some eye-opening revelations. “Prosecutors say Muslim charity in Texas got appeal to help fund holy war,” from The Associated Press (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): DALLAS: An unknown Islamist militant appealed to a Texas-based Muslim charity for money to help fund a jihad, or […]
University of Michigan at Dearborn establishes Islam, constructs Islamic footbaths
Unconstitutional. “School to provide Muslim students with foot baths,” by Andrea Billups for the Washington Times (thanks to all who sent this in): DEARBORN, Mich. “” Plans to construct two foot-washing stations continue at the University of Michigan at Dearborn amid concerns that such action would constitute an establishment of religion by the public university. […]
Tom Burnett Sr. denounces Flight 93 Memorial, calls for Congressional investigation
Tom Burnett Sr. is publicly backing Alec Rawls”s claim that the planned Flight 93 Memorial is riddled with Islamic and terrorist memorializing elements. Mr. Burnett is refusing to allow Tom Jr.”s name to be used in the memorial, and is calling for a Congressional investigation. Alec’s latest post shows how easy it is to verify […]
Bush Administration scraps plans to screen U.S. foreign aid contractors for terror ties
Yes, why bother? After all, Islam is a religion of peace! “Plan for Terror Screening of Aid Groups Cut Drastically,” by Walter Pincus for the Washington Post: The Bush administration has decided to sharply scale back its plan to screen U.S. foreign aid contractors around the globe for potential terrorism connections, deciding instead to begin […]
Fitzgerald: What did Walter Russell Mead really say?
LAHORE: 9/11 has brought Americans closer to Islam, since the Americans started studying Islam after the bloody attacks and realised that Islam was a peaceful religion, said Walter Russell Mead on Saturday. — Pakistan Daily Times It is common for Muslim reporters, and Muslim newspapers, to misreport what a visiting semi-dignitary said, in order to […]
Fitzgerald: Top Five Famous Muslims
I found this at a website supposedly devoted to sport: www.pakpassion.net. The list is an inspiring blend of mass-murderers and mass-media sports stars. The arithmetic needs work. top 5 famous muslims of all time 1) Mohamed Ali- the greatest boxer of all time [float like a butterfly sting like a bee] 2) Osama Bin Laden […]
Fitzgerald: What Islamic “radicalization” means
“We are fortunate that radicalization seems to have less appeal in the U.S. than in other parts of the world,” he said, “but we do not believe that America is immune to homegrown terrorism.”– from this article This statement, variants of which are made so often with such self-assurance, needs to be examined. We are […]
Fitzgerald: The Qur’an and Higher Criticism
There is a controversy surrounding the work of the philologist of Syriac (that is, the Aramaic used in and around Edessa), Christoph Luxenberg. He suggests that the best way to clear up the approximately 20% of the Qur’an that does not make sense, or that contains a meaning that is only guessed at, is to […]
Fitzgerald: Defend the West by educating it
“The memo’s writer, Mohamed Akram, wrote that members of the Brotherhood ‘must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.’” — from this article Cut-and-paste. Print as many copies as you wish. Email others. Home: Refrigerator (that magnet again). Wallet. Glove compartment. […]