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Texas Christian University to send students to mosque for ‘religious experience’

Jan 24, 2017 10:17 am By Robert Spencer

“Sodiq’s syllabus for his ‘Understanding Diverse Faith Communities’ states that the course is meant ‘to enable our students comprehend the meanings and nature of world religions’ … Yet while the class discusses Islam, Judaism, African traditional religions, and Buddhism (apparently Sodiq assumes that students at Texas Christian University know all they need to know about Christianity already), Sodiq’s syllabus plans for five sessions on Islam, plus two more on The Kite Runner, a novel about Muslims in Afghanistan, and another for the mosque visit, for a total of eight on Islam and related themes,” Geller stated. “Meanwhile, only four class sessions are planned on Buddhism, three on Judaism, and two on African traditional religions.”

This class appears to be a sly exercise in proselytizing for Islam, camouflaged with a scattering of material about other religions. Such courses go on in universities all over the country, where administrators wouldn’t dream of questioning their content, for fear of being accused of “Islamophobia.”

“Christian university to send students to mosque for ‘religious experience,’” by Jennifer Kabbany, The College Fix, January 24, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):

Students enrolled in a world religions course this semester at Texas Christian University must attend a mosque service as part of the class.

The field trip was scheduled to take place on Good Friday – one of the most holy days for Christians – observed as the day Jesus Christ was crucified.

“Every student is expected to attend this service,” states the syllabus, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix. “This visit is part of your participation in class. Many other students from our department will join us. It is a religious experience visit. No student is required to participate in mosque’s service during our visit.”

Reached for comment, a campus spokesperson said the field trip’s date was assigned in error, that the university is closed on Good Friday, and the professor is working to reschedule the mosque visit.

“Texas Christian University is actually closed on Good Friday,” spokeswoman Holly Ellman told The College Fix in an email. “The date on the syllabus was inaccurate, which the professor is aware of and is modifying. He will notify his students accordingly to ensure that they have accurate, up-to-date information about the course.”

Asked for further clarification on the field trip, and the course and its content, Ellman referred to the class’ one-sentence online description.

Spring semester launched in mid-January at the private university, located in Fort Worth. The course, “Understanding Diverse Faith Communities,” is taught by Associate Professor of Islamic and Religious Studies Yushau Sodiq, whose faculty page states he earned his bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies and master’s degree in Islamic law at University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, and his PhD in Islamic Studies from Temple University. He also taught at a university in Nigeria before his post at Texas Christian University, which he has held since 1992.

Sodiq did not respond to emails from The College Fix asking whether there is an alternative assignment for students who do not wish to observe the Islamic service, and well as for more general information on the course and its academic aims.

According to the syllabus, the intention of the mosque visit is to “understand the ritual and tradition of other religions in their own context.”

“You can also invite your friends to join in this visit,” the syllabus states. “… If you do not attend the mosque, you will not be able to do the quiz and as you know, there is not make-up for quizzes.”

The 90-minute visit will include an address by the “leader of the Muslim community” and an observation of the sunset prayer, it adds.

One option for extra credit in the class is called “Being Muslim for a Day,” in which students can dress as a Muslim or tell their family they’ve become Muslim and document the reactions.

The syllabus was provided to The College Fix by Pamela Geller, who obtained it from a campus source.

Geller is president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a nonprofit “dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, individual rights and equality for all before the law.” Geller is known for, among other things, her activism against the encroachment of Sharia Law in the United States and her defiant stance against Islam’s strict and unconstitutional religious tenets, such as the law that the prophet Mohammad must not be drawn.

In a statement to The Fix, Geller expressed concern about the course at Texas Christian University:

“Sodiq’s syllabus for his ‘Understanding Diverse Faith Communities’ states that the course is meant ‘to enable our students comprehend the meanings and nature of world religions’ … Yet while the class discusses Islam, Judaism, African traditional religions, and Buddhism (apparently Sodiq assumes that students at Texas Christian University know all they need to know about Christianity already), Sodiq’s syllabus plans for five sessions on Islam, plus two more on The Kite Runner, a novel about Muslims in Afghanistan, and another for the mosque visit, for a total of eight on Islam and related themes,” Geller stated. “Meanwhile, only four class sessions are planned on Buddhism, three on Judaism, and two on African traditional religions.”

Geller also takes issue with the mosque trip: “Sodiq implies that the visit has a proselytizing intent as he writes: ‘You can also invite your friends to join in this visit’ – and ominously, ‘If you do not attend the mosque, you will not be able to do the quiz and as you know, there is not make-up for quizzes.”

“The syllabus does not explain why there is no visit to a synagogue, church, Buddhist temple, or any other house of worship – only to a mosque,” Geller told The Fix. “Sodiq also requires that students complete a journal entry on ‘Islamophobia.’ He asks for no journal entry on anti-Semitism or prejudice or hatred against any other group.”…

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  1. JOHNNIEMAC says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 10:23 am

    This is NOT a CHRISTIAN administration.

  2. CrossWare says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 10:36 am

    Hey where is the bomb making class and the slice the neck class? Or that ones for extra credit?

    • Mark A says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 11:13 am

      Perhaps its extra credit this semester is for collecting jizya payments and imposing dhimmi status on the infidel People of the Book.

      • Rev G says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 12:57 pm

        Woo woo! Next week it’s off to the Chickenranch for Sex Ed!

        • ed cox says

          Jan 24, 2017 at 1:03 pm

          Why go that far , just hit the correct bars or street corner .

  3. cs says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 10:48 am

    The idea behind it is:”Let;s make Islam great again”, because why not?
    It will give such a sensation of Empowerment and entitlement… Makes one thrilled…. (actually it makes one shivers deeply down the spine).

  4. duh swami says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 10:55 am

    Will they learn that Jesus is not the son of ‘God’?

    • Annak says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 11:36 am

      Yes, and they had better not declare He is or that would be islamphobic. Blasphemy!!The worst crime on earth nowadays..
      It will in no time be an offence to declare
      ” Jesus Christ is Lord!”…… Coming soon to a town near you

    • ed cox says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 1:04 pm

      Many of the Churches don’t teach that anymore .

      • Ray Sears says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 3:33 pm

        SADLY, THAT’S THE TRUTH !

      • JOHNNIEMAC says

        Jan 24, 2017 at 7:53 pm

        Those “many” are sending their congregation to hell.

        • Bob says

          Jan 25, 2017 at 7:53 am

          Too true!

  5. Cretius says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 10:58 am

    Fire Sodiq! This ‘professor’ is nothing more than an Imam in disguise who practices deceit to promote his ‘religion’ which is nothing more than a totalitarian political system presenting as a religion. This is further proof that Islam is perhaps the most dangerous hoax perpetuated by man.

    • Cretius says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 12:55 pm

      Sodiq was trained in Saudi Arabia and follows Wahhabism, perhaps the most extreme conservative form of Islam. He is a viper of the worst sort.

  6. Angemon says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 11:01 am

    It is a religious experience visit.

    Will it feature the discriminatory treatment non-muslims are supposed to endure under sharia? Of course not, that would actually be honest…

    • Ray Sears says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 4:00 pm

      muslims want islamic law ! muslims want non-muslims to be UNDER islamic laws ! muslims are required to LIE TO NON-MUSLIMS ABOUT ” ISLAM ” ! WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ?

  7. Adrian says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 11:06 am

    What nest?

    Required vist to Clearwater to learn about Scientology and Xenu?

    • Adrian says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 11:07 am

      What next?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 6:44 pm

      That would be stupid, but less harmful than this.

  8. Mark A says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 11:17 am

    If their field trip is on Good Friday and they want a “religious experience” wouldn’t it make more sense to attend a Good Friday service at a Christian church?

    Oh wait, I think I know the answer to that. It has something to do with jihad and infidels…….

  9. marina says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 11:45 am

    I hope no student takes that opportunity of getting extra credit for “Being Muslim for a Day,” Why is the Uni caving in to this vile professor’s demands. Where is Hinduism and why visiting a Hindu temple not part of the syllabus.

  10. Aneezah says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    As a woman, in my country I am forced to keep my mouth shut.

    But here I am free to talk trash about this country, hoping that it will soon turn into a country where I am forced to keep my mouth shut.

    • Bradthefuzz says

      Jan 24, 2017 at 6:50 pm

      Then go home.

      • Patricia says

        Jan 25, 2017 at 9:19 am

        I took her comment as her trying to tell us that she gets it. And doesn’t want it, and that’s why she left her country of origin.

      • TR says

        Jan 25, 2017 at 9:31 am

        Bradthefuzz, I believe Aneezah is stating her comment as sarcasm which may be misinterpreted .

  11. DFD says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 4:51 pm

    We have that in Europe too. Netherlands, Germany, Sweden…

    Funny, ‘didn’t know that idiocy is internationally contagious.

  12. mortimer says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 6:21 pm

    Texas Christian University should also invite Robert Spencer, Bill Warner and Dr. Wafa Sultan to lecture classes about Islam.

  13. gravenimage says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    Texas Christian University to send students to mosque for ‘religious experience’

    This class appears to be a sly exercise in proselytizing for Islam, camouflaged with a scattering of material about other religions…
    ………………………..

    That’s *exactly* what this is.

    More:

    The field trip was scheduled to take place on Good Friday – one of the most holy days for Christians – observed as the day Jesus Christ was crucified.
    ………………………..

    And how better to observe that day than to go to a place where they not only deny that this occurred, but are apt to murder you for believing that it did?

    It is only because the university is closed that day–how Islamophobic!–that this trip will have to be rescheduled. If Sodiq has been teaching there since 1992, he no doubt already knew this. If it had not been caught by Infidels, no doubt he would have gotten away with it.

    More:

    “Every student is expected to attend this service,” states the syllabus, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix. “This visit is part of your participation in class. Many other students from our department will join us. It is a religious experience visit…”

    “You can also invite your friends to join in this visit,” the syllabus states. “… If you do not attend the mosque, you will not be able to do the quiz and as you know, there is not make-up for quizzes.”
    ………………………..

    I’ve never seen anything in a syllabus worded like this before–no doubt he anticipates a lot of resistance on the part of students.

    And, as noted, there are no visits to a Synagogue, Buddhist Temple, or any other place of worship. Very telling…

    More:

    One option for extra credit in the class is called “Being Muslim for a Day,” in which students can dress as a Muslim or tell their family they’ve become Muslim and document the reactions.
    ………………………..

    Riiiiight–are they going to have a day where you tell your family your have converted to Judaism or Hinduism? I didn’t think so…

    Even more to the point, of course, are they going to ask Muslim students to tell their families they have just converted to Christianity and have them “document the reactions”? Somehow I doubt it…

  14. davej says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    Islam: it’s a one way street (to Hell).

    How did America get knee deep in Islamic Studies? Oh yeah, Saudi Arabia, where the 9/11 terrorists came from. Do they teach any facts at all in these schools or is it completely Islamic propaganda?

    Answer: completely Islamic propaganda.

  15. Kay says

    Jan 24, 2017 at 11:43 pm

    Well, this makes me want to vomit!

    And just how did he get this syllabus by the department head?

    Also, did he “forget” about the Hindu religion, which should definitely be part of a “world religions” course– or even a course on the many religions observed in the US?

  16. Dustin Koellhoffer says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 10:54 am

    If this is a “know your enemy” mission, an opportunity to learn how satanic death cults operate, fine. If they want to find commonality with Islam they’re in deep doo-doo.

  17. Mirren10 says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 11:05 am

    This might be quite useful, actually, if the students were first primed with some pertinent questions to ask !

  18. Mirren10 says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 11:09 am

    A long time ago, dumbledoresarmy posted an excellent article, from, I think, the New English Review, entitled “The Church Cat is a practical cat”. In it, some Christians who had been invited to a mosque by an imam, posed some very pointed questions to said imam, who hastily departed the field. These students should do the same.?

  19. c matt says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 11:30 am

    PhD in Islamic Studies from Temple University.

    What the hell is Temple University doing giving PhD’s in Islamic studies? And why is an adherent of the least tolerant ideology on Earth teaching a class on world religions?

    What these students should so is not enroll in his class. I assume it is not required for graduation (i.e., elective). If his student:teacher ratio is 1:1 or less, the cost to keep him will soon remove him.

  20. cheryl s. says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 10:31 am

    So, what is this muslim jihadi proselytizer doing teaching ANYTHING at a Christian university????
    How about a Christian professor teaching the Bible in a moslem country? That ain’t happening…ever!

    I think Texas Christian University has two choices. Either, remove the word, “Christian” from the school name or, boot this pond scum from the university indeed, deport his sorry butt back to whatever moslem hellhole he crawled out from.
    Really sick of the cancer known as islam contagiously spreading throughout our nation in the name of diversity and multi-culti. America started out as a Judeo-Christian nation and we must return to our roots if we are to have the blessing of God. If a muslim wants to convert to Christianity, he should have the opportunity as God loves the muslim too however, it shouldn’t be the other way around
    This has to stop and it has to stop now! Colleges and universities should not be allowed to accept Saudi money….EVER!
    No muslim should teach at ANY American university…period. Shutter the doors of CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS, AMP, MFLA & MSA’s and send the members back to country of origin. There is no place for islam in America!

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