Andy Ngo reported on a Muslim student admitting that his religion mandated death for those who leave it, and was summarily dismissed from his position at the Vanguard, the campus newspaper. No one at PSU seems particularly concerned with the plight of those who leave Islam in Muslim countries, but those who call attention to this fact are “predatory” and “reckless.” This is modern academia: truths that deviate from the Leftist line are ruthlessly suppressed.
“Student Shares Video Critical Of Islam, Gets Fired From College Newspaper,” by Rob Shimshock, Daily Caller, May 12/2017:
An Oregon college student lost his job at the school newspaper after he tweeted a video of a Muslim student admitting his religion killed nonbelievers, according to an article he wrote concerning the incident Friday.
Andy Ngo, former multimedia editor for the Vanguard at Portland State University, posted a video and brief commentary from an “Unpacking Misconceptions” religion panel he attended before losing his job, according to a column he published in National Review.
“At Portland State interfaith panel today, the Muslim student speaker said that apostates will be killed or banished in an Islamic state,” tweeted Ngo on April 26.
“And some, this, that you’re referring to, killing non-Muslims, that [to be a non-believer] is only considered a crime when the country’s law, the country is based on Koranic law — that means there is no other law than the Koran,” the Muslim student said at the panel, according to the tweets. “In that case, you’re given the liberty to leave the country, you can go in a different country, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. So you can go in a different country, but in a Muslim country, in a country based on the Koranic laws, disbelieving, or being an infidel, is not allowed so you will be given the choice [to leave].”
Breitbart included the former multimedia editor’s tweet in an April article, and Ngo asserts that his editor-in-chief Colleen Leary and managing editor Tim Sullivan then met with him.
Leary purportedly called Ngo “predatory” and “reckless,” stating the former multimedia editor had risked Muslim students’ lives as well as the lives of his family. She claimed that Ngo had “violated the paper’s ethical standards” by not “minimizing harm” directed at the speaker and had “a history” of indirect association with conservative outlets that damaged the newspaper’s reputation. Leary proceeded to fire Ngo.
Ngo told The Daily Caller News Foundation that he received $1,900 per quarter at the Vanguard and worked for 15-20 hours a week.
“From the ideologues within the paper, the reaction was hostility and aggression,” Ngo told TheDCNF. “Most of them were quick to cut off any ties to me, as if I was suddenly branded untouchable– or deplorable.”…
ontheridge says
Welcome to 1984 in 2017! You are absolutely NOT allowed to say anything about Islam that is the truth or you will pay for it. We are to have everyone think that Islam is a religion of peace and not say otherwise or WE are branded the evildoers, not them.
I can see when I rent out my place and turn down Muslims, that I may end up in jail simply because I’ll tell them they will not be happy here living with pigs and dogs and me walking around in a bathing suit in the summer. Trudeau has made our country that way.
Georg says
x: What did you say?
y: Nothing. I said what someone else said.
x: What did they say?
y: That under Koranic law disbelievers may be expelled or apostates killed.
x: You’re in big trouble.
ninetyninepct says
Justinidiot and Khalid are trying desperately to force that violent cult on Canada.
A link to show who controls Trudeau and the Liberals.
http://tsecnetwork.ca/
Wellington says
Hell, it’s right in the damn Koran, Sura 4:89, which states that “those who leave the way of Allah (i.e., cease being Muslim) should be seized and killed.” Mohammed himself said, “Whoever changes his Islamic faith kill him.” {Bukhari Hadith 9:84:57} And not a single major school of Islamic theology, Sunni or Shiite, to this very day has repudiated this heinous, freedom crushing doctrine.
So, yet again we see that stating the truth about Islam is the new hate speech———and with consequences, as in this example at Portland State.
Goofy world. Upside-down world. Age of Nonsense world. Sadly, much more of this rot is to come, courtesy not first and foremost of the worst religion of all time, Islam, but of silly dhimmis in the West who continue to shill for this wretched belief system.
No end in sight: Expect this.
gravenimage says
So true, Wellington.
Mark Swan says
Hopefully Andy Ngo will continue his multimedia work, elsewhere, and not be discouraged.
marina says
So the new norm is that muslims can do or say anything but infidels cannot point them out. Then infidels will be dealt harshly. Muslims are the new elites, they belong to the privileged class in the west.
Greyhound Fancier says
You can tell who are the masters – the ones who cannot be criticized or ridiculed. To think that we’ve thrown in the towel to savages!
Jeanette says
That was always true with the leftists – those who pointed out any of their wrongdoing were far worse than those who actually did the wrong.
They have simply transferred that immunity from judgement to their much admired throat-slitting friends.
gravenimage says
Portland State U: Student fired from paper for reporting about Muslim student’s statement
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And Ngo had a *video* of the statement, so there was absolutely no question about the Muslim student having said what he reported.
Note that this witless editor considers it “predatory” and “reckless” to report on acknowledgement of the murder of apostates–but apparently has no such harsh words for preaching murder.
And freedom of speech at campuses like Portland State are further eroded, and Muslims like this one are further emboldened to enforce Shari’ah.
I hope Andy Ngo doe not give up–we *need* truth-tellers like him.
Here is contact information for Editor-in-Chief Colleen Leary:
503-725-5691
editor@psuvanguard.com
And here is Managing Editor Tim Sullivan:
managingeditor@psuvanguard.com
Please be polite but emphatic.
Shmooviyet says
Mr. Ngo had “risked the lives” of his family.
What would be Ms. Leary’s response if asked just how he did that?
Karen says
The first rule of journalism….. minimize harm?
Harm to whom? The paper’s pet causes and favored clients? Surely not to conservatives, and other’s that Editor-in-Chief Colleen Leary must surely despise.
Some “Editor-in-Chief”. How laughable. It’s Amateur Hour at the PSU Vanguard.
gravenimage says
Good question, Karen. The first law of journalism is–or *should be*–to uncover and report the truth, which is just what Andy Ngo did.
Paul Ashley says
Sadly, it’s not amateur hour, since that is the way the professional journalists behave these days.
Karen says
As gravenimage would way, this is “grimly true”!
Karen says
say, that is!
Terry says
Ngo-to me-sounds like he is either of Viet Namese or Cambodian DESCENT.
His parents or grandparents probably witnessed terrible things-like mass murder; “re-education” (aka concentration/death) camps), etc.
And to fire him. Working 15-20 hours a week for $1900 per quarter- quick math in my head- I think that works out to be about $7 per hour. Isn’t that below the minimum wage?
he should sue.
By the way, if he is Viet Namese or Cambodian, he should claim racial discrimination.
gravenimage says
Yup.
revereridesagain says
Meanwhile, in Boston, participants in a free speech rally were set upon by Antifa thugs… again.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/left-wing-antifa-threaten-assault-journalists-trump-supporters-boston-free-speech-rally-videos/
Social media in the area for days beforehand was full of shout-outs for Leftist thugs to show up and disrupt the peaceful rally.
Veka Fitzfrancis says
I wish this wasn’t true, but as someone who attended this school, I’ve seen it coming.
LR says
Why are Leary and Sullivan working as editors? They aren’t journalists. They are cowards. Real journalists are not cowards.
Ngo is a real journalist. He is the one who should be running the paper.
John A. Marre says
In the world of today murdering in the name of a false religion is perfectly all right, because that is a minority religion, and its members are assumed to be “oppressed” by Christians.
But the WORST thing imaginable is when a non-Muslim SAYS something that a Muslim doesn’t like.
Rickytee says
Unfortunately, this is a sign of things to come in America…and unless those who are against this Islamic ideology take a real strong action against it – by force, if necessary – this country, and those who refuse to follow Islam, Sharia Law and all that goes with it are doomed. Sorry,, but that’s the reality of it. Not only in America but other countries as well. Canada will be next where there will be trouble with pro- Muslims and those advocating Sharia Law. Their Prime Minister Trudeau is leading their country towards disaster, big time. Already Socialis Merkel in Germany has begun to cause havoc in that country1 Some people are having their homes forcibly annexed to provide accommodation to Muslim “refugees.”
Wake up everybody and BE PREPARED for Islam to attempt (if not succeed) in taking over…it’s been called Creeping Sharia.
Norger says
How ironic is this. The religion that kills apostates isn’t predatory, those who report this fact are. Got it.
Jeanette says
The leftists made the villains those who reported evil, rather than the actual evildoers, long before those leftists fell in love with Muslim butchers.