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Danish newspaper: US universities cave to Islamist pressure

Apr 15, 2014 8:03 am By Nicolai Sennels

brandeis-frontVia 10news.dk, translated by Nicolai Sennels from Berlingske:

Three universities recently had to change decisions due to pressure from Muslim organizations.

The U.S. university Brandeis in Massachusetts has had to pull back plans to give an honorary doctorate to the Islam-critical woman Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And it’s not the first time that an American university is forced on the defensive and has to withdraw a decision because strong and powerful Islamist groups have gone on the offensive. A few weeks ago, the University of Michigan and University of Illinois changed their decision to screen an Islam-critical film because Muslim interest groups in the United States threatened the universities with lawsuits if they showed the film.

It is certainly not in accord with the universities’ best interests that they need to retreat. Commentators in the United States says that political correctness is influencing academia. The Muslim organizations are too strong and have success lobbying to prevent Islam critics to speak out.

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  1. inquisador says

    Apr 15, 2014 at 8:32 am

    Interesting.

    It would be good to know what was the islam-critical film in question?

    • inquisador says

      Apr 15, 2014 at 11:51 am

      Thanks Sakovt.

      Have now seen the trailer for ‘Honor Diaries’ and the interviews at Fox.

      What a hypocritical liar and twister of facts is Hooper. I’d like to see him undergo MGM! I don’t mean watch a movie either.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Apr 15, 2014 at 9:16 am

    I have heard that Universities extract fees from (all students) to support Islamic Student Organizations.
    Is this true or not?
    Does anyone know about this?

    • kikorikid says

      Apr 16, 2014 at 5:36 pm

      MSA. Muslim Students of America receives the same
      campus funding as other student groups. They
      don’t stop there though. MSA is on hundreds of campuses.
      They want time of to pray. They want washing facilities.
      They want separate “Faith” facilities from that already
      offered. AND if they don’t get it, violence.
      Same ole extortion game that Islam has played
      for 14 Centuries.

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Apr 15, 2014 at 10:04 am

    The brief article Sennels posts mentions U. Michigan and U. Illinois threatened with lawsuits if they showed the film.

    In following the Honor Diaries coverage here and at Answering Muslims, I never encountered that assertion…

    Can anyone tell me what specific kind of lawsuit was —- and/or who-what org threatened ? Thanks hugely…

    • Kathy Brown says

      Apr 16, 2014 at 11:35 pm

      CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations) files lots of different types of suits; most typically, they file EEOC Complaints. These claim that Muslims’ ‘requests’ for ‘accomodations’ vis a vis their ‘religion’, have been [wrongly] refused. As earlier mentioned, these ‘accommodations’ include: Time off work for prayers (this does not occur in the Muslim world by the way!); facilities for foot-washing before prayers (here in the Kansas City area they demanded-and got-such at the KC Int’l airport a few years ago), etc.

      Another type of suit they file is an action for Libel/Slander. These are the ones you see v. [the wonderful and courageous] Pam Geller and her Transit Bus/Subway Ads (‘In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Defeat Jihad’). Usually Pam’s won these-but there have been a couple of recent decisions which are insane. In the latter, 2 judges REFUSED Pam’s demand to post her ads because MUSLIMS MIGHT BLOW UP BUSES IF THEY WERE POSTED. This is the incredible enshrinement of the ‘Heckler’s Veto’, which previously has always been rejected…

      You don’t have to be a lawyer to see that, did American jurisprudence PERMIT the ‘veto’, well, [minority/critical] Free speech would never triumph.

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 15, 2014 at 10:06 am

    Western universities have to stop accepting money from oil-sheikhs who demand they enforce Islamic obscurantism.

    Obscurantism is the reverse of the goals of universities: dispassionate inquiry and critical thought.

  5. kilfincelt says

    Apr 15, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    I am a graduate of the University of Michigan and have told them to stand up to the Islamists or they can forget getting any money from me.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Apr 15, 2014 at 7:17 pm

      Hello kinfincelt —

      I appreciate your effort — far too many alumni fall into a “cultural relativism” coma…

  6. bill says

    Apr 16, 2014 at 9:16 am

    I am surprised to see this in a Danish newspaper and am more surprised that it was allowed. As of course it smacks of Islamophobia!!! Denmark is one of the most Muslim infested countries in EU much like Sweden. Perhaps they are not lost after all.

  7. Fanny Garth says

    Apr 16, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    The Universities are terrified of Muslim terrorism…and they should be. Muslims are trained to be terrorists, with the applause of their Imams.

  8. Demsci says

    Apr 17, 2014 at 12:46 am

    In Holland the film Honor Diaries seems not to have been released. And it seems not to have hit the media and it is only scarcely discussed.

    But …. there is the Municipal Health Service, and it has a rather big Domestic Violence Department, which also covers FGM, forced marriage etc. It has also Islamic personnel.

    And last I checked the official attitude was “Domestic Violence, honor-related violence and such has nothing to do with Islam”. Because, it was explained, Domestic Violence etc. ALSO occurs elsewhere, mentioned were Sikhs, Hindus, Ethiopians, even Brazilians. I suspect that the subject of the link between Islamic teachings and Domestic Violence might well be avoided like the plaque by civil servants, at least in my experience when trying to talk about this issue with some of them.

    And now, in Honor Diaries, Muslima’s themselves expose such a link. Qanta Ahmed is one. She is amazing, she seems to be on good terms with David Horowicz! She holds that Islam need not be interpreted as it is by the “radicals”. She poses as a “liberal muslim”.

    Because of this and more I consider Honor Diaries a unique milestone and a must-read-subject for Domestic Violence professionals but I daresay it might well be ignored by them in Holland.

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