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Prof: Muslim students at U of Calgary openly supported Islamic Jihad, Hamas

Jun 27, 2014 1:09 pm By Robert Spencer

Aaron HughesWe’re constantly told that Muslims in the West abhor jihad terrorism and reject the understanding of Islam that gives rise to it. Yet jihad terrorists base their appeal to peaceful Muslims on teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah. And the jihad that is raging now in Iraq and Syria is drawing many Muslims from Western countries where all the Muslims are assumed to be peaceful and against violent jihad. The cognitive dissonance between the popularity of the jihad in Iraq and Syria for young Muslims in the West and the official understanding of what Muslims in the West believe is, of course, never explained.

More on this story. “Students’ extremist views pushed professor out of U of C,” by Reid Southwick, Calgary Herald, June 25, 2014:

A former professor at the University of Calgary says he left his tenured position after colleagues refused to respond to his concerns with students spreading radical Muslim views.

Aaron Hughes, a prolific author on religion who holds a PhD on Islamic studies, said he once found a message scrawled in Arabic across his classroom’s chalkboard endorsing Islamic Jihad and Hamas, widely considered a terrorist group by western countries.

…by the U.S. State Department, among others.

Hughes, who is Jewish, said he interpreted the message as anti-Semitic, but he said the university declined to remove the offending student from his class.

Of course. That would have been “Islamophobic.”

“I would have to go teach this class as a victim staring my aggressor in the face,” he said.

Hughes, who now teaches at the University of Rochester, said he’s not surprised by reports of Calgarians travelling abroad to fight with extremist groups, given what he experienced. He wondered whether influences on university campuses are helping to fuel this movement of young men waging jihad in Syria and Iraq.

Now that’s a tough one!

The professor and researcher said he also saw a young Muslim stand up during a University of Calgary memorial service for the 9/11 terrorist attacks to say, “Islam will always stand up for those who are dispossessed.” Later, he saw a student wearing a Hamas headband.

Hughes’ comments have again highlighted fears of homegrown radicalization in Calgary and raised questions about the line that divides freedom of expression from hate speech….

Riyaz Khawaja, a Calgary Muslim leader, said the message Hughes found written on his blackboard backing Hamas is out of step with the tenets of his religion. He said he has become troubled with reports of Calgarians fighting alongside extremists, which he said was the result of a gross misinterpretation of his religion.

But Khawaja doesn’t explain, and the Calgary Herald doesn’t ask him, why this “gross misrepresentation of his religion” is so widespread that thousands of Muslims all over the world have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the jihad.

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  1. Jeff says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    They continue to think they can just push us into a corner with their violence, threats of violence, and lies. A HUGE backlash is coming in the West, especially in Europe. It will come from the citizens, not the politicians. Muslims are making themselves very unwelcome. They will try to blame everyone but themselves for this, but the veil is falling ever so quickly now. The intolerance and claims of superiority of an inferior cult cannot sustain itself in the light of day.

    • Bob says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 6:17 pm

      Brother, I sure hope you’re right about that! Bring On The Backlash!! (Got a nice ring to it) It can’t come soon enough!!

  2. bettina says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    “Yet jihad terrorists base their appeal to peaceful Muslims on teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah.”

    Wouldn’t you think that the very boast of killing, torturing, beheading, etc. in the name of islam, repeated thousands of times, and murderously applied to Infidel and Muslim alike, would have by now unmasked their cult and its equally murderous tenets?

    How can the West still look upon islam as a legitimate religion deserving of respect? This IS the amazing dissonance, as Robert puts it, that baffles the imagination in our days of instant media coverage.
    We hear it from all sides, but refuse to see that the very notion of islam is one of murder and misanthropy. islam sustains and glorifies the sickest, most sadistic, most sociopathic assemblage of sub-humans, doesn’t it.

  3. KrazyKafir says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    “Riyaz Khawaja, a Calgary Muslim leader”

    I wonder where one can find Riyaz Khawaja’s, class for lost, on how the mujahideen are grossly misunderstanding his religion. LOL

  4. Isabella says

    Jun 28, 2014 at 10:24 am

    Calgary will become a Muslim enclave, you watch. The mayor is Muslim and for now he claims he supports diversity, but when Calgary has a Muslim population over 25%, there wil no longer talks about cultural diversity but rather conformity to Islam.

    What is happening at the Calgary U. happens because the Muslims are embolden no matter how you look at it.

    • rockyracoon says

      Aug 24, 2014 at 7:47 pm

      well if this does not smarten people up I don’t know, its encouraging to Sweden England etc starting to wake. these people want to destroy thw western world and the useless asshole liberals cant get enough of them, who is behind the migration of muslims to the west to begin with it only started not that long ago pierre trudeau did his best to destroy Canadian but he was not alone. the spineless left wing goofballs who hide at their universities and preach their contempt for the western world would never have balls to put a public face on their treason. universities are safe for a gutless bunch of left wingers. tom kent the English born goofball who shaped most of the attack on Canadian did so while hiding at a university. the damage is inflicted by people who were never elected or put a public face on their doings, weed out the university garbage that’s a good start jeff I hope u r correct the big problem is the lefties they just love shit disturbers

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