This egregious USA Today article is full of the usual nonsense: it’s “anti-Muslim” to oppose jihad terror, Hamas-linked CAIR is presented as if it were the civil rights organization it claims to be, without any indication of the fact that CAIR officials have refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
An unsavory Hamas-linked group and a hard-Left smear group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, should not be allowed to control who speaks about security issues and who doesn’t, much less to control the public discourse to the extent that only its point of view is represented in a major newspaper. But that is the world we live in today.
“Trevecca Nazarene University blocks Mae Beavers event criticized as anti-Islam,” by Natalie Allison, USA Today, January 10, 2018:
Amid criticism, Trevecca Nazarene University has withdrawn as a venue this month for a controversial event organized by Republican gubernatorial candidate Mae Beavers.
The Jan. 25 “Homeland Security Summit” will feature three speakers known by critics for espousing anti-Muslim views, including Bill French — listed on promotional materials under his pen name “Bill Warner” — Cathy Hinners and John Guandolo.
“It’s kind of a who’s who of Islamaphobes,” said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR.
“The themes are always the same: Muslims are about to take over the country and install sharia in place of the Constitution, and mosques are hotbeds of extremism.”
Beavers released a statement on Wednesday describing Trevecca’s decision as “caving to Islamic pressure” and said the university had “abandoned Biblical principles in order embrace [sic] political correctness and promote the interests of those who deny Christ.”
In a statement to USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee on Wednesday, the university said the event would distract from Trevecca’s mission.
“Throughout our history, Trevecca has consistently offered political candidates of both parties the opportunity to use our campus for events,” according to the statement from spokeswoman Mandy Crow. “We strongly believe that our students benefit from proximity to the voting process, and that freedom of speech is a foundation of American democracy.
“However, a recent event tentatively scheduled to be held on our campus appears to have an agenda beyond a political campaign. This event would distract from our commitment to community building, education, and support of a diverse enrollment. Our agenda of Christian education in the heart of Nashville requires that we serve the best interests of this mission. For this reason, the planned event will not be held on Trevecca’s campus.”
Trevecca President Dan Boone said in a statement on Tuesday the university shared concerns expressed by alumni who had contacted the school after learning of the event.
Beavers, 70, is an alumna of the university.
Crow said Tuesday that Boone’s office had received complaints about the event and school officials began researching the speakers.
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee confirmed it distributed a letter to roughly 3,000 people over the weekend who had previously signed its Nashville Unites resolution in an effort to inform them about the controversial summit being planned.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the event will go on at another venue.
CAIR issued a statement on Wednesday announcing that it “welcomes” the university’s decision to drop the event.
Following criticism, Beavers points finger at criticsIn response to CAIR’s initial criticism of the event’s speakers, Beavers noted that the Muslim advocacy group had been designated a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates and alleged the organization was involved in “terrorism in the Holy Land.”
The U.S. government does not deem CAIR a terror group.
In an interview about the summit, Beavers said she decided to organize the event because she is concerned about illegal immigration, and that Americans and Tennesseans “don’t know who is coming here.”
Though Beavers said the event is on “homeland security” in general, all the speakers featured in the summit express a clear focus on Islam.
“I think Islam is a threat to our country,” Beavers said in response to whether she was against the religion, before adding that she believes “Islam is a political agenda.”
She disagreed that the summit could be classified as an anti-Islam event.
Beavers described herself as “the only gubernatorial candidate who has been talking about homeland security,” and told the USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee she was forming an “advisory committee on homeland security.”
When asked about homeland security risks facing Tennessee, Beavers noted “the crime and the gangs that have come here because of illegal immigration.”
Event speakers long-criticized by civil rights groupsGuandolo, a former FBI agent who runs the website and training group “Understanding The Threat,” was accused by a Minnesota sheriff last year of assaulting him at a national law enforcement conference.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Guandolo is an “anti-Muslim extremist” who has been barred by multiple law enforcement agencies from continuing to conduct training workshops due to his conspiracy theories about Muslims.
Multiple events being led by Guandolo and his Understanding The Threat associate Chris Gaubatz have been canceled, including as recently as Tuesday in Amherst County, Virginia.
French runs the Nashville-based Center for the Study of Political Islam, which the SPLC has also labeled a hate group, and was a leader in opposing plans in 2010 for a new mosque in Murfreesboro.
He formerly worked as a physics professor at Tennessee State University.
Hinners, who lives in the Nashville area, is a retired Albany, N.Y., police officer who now runs the blog Daily Roll Call, where she claims to expose “the Islamists and their organizations throughout the country, with an emphasis on the State of Tennessee,” according to her LinkedIn profile….
elee says
Opposing jihad violence, antiSemitism and world-conquest schemes is indeed anti-Muslim. That’s the point of it, not to be ruled or bullied or assassinated by these guys.
Andy says
Objective News
Trump Allegedly Calls Haiti a ‘Shithole’; Left Explodes!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hubeN-BAPfc
Andy says
Psychiatrist Who Accused Trump Of Instability Is A Fraud With No License To Practice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxMbbYT23ig
J D S says
Suggested email or letter
Dear Trevecca Nazarene University
Firstly you are bending to the views of CAIR which some suggest should be listed as a terrorist organization. Secondly you should remove the name Nazarene from your university title …”Nazarene” is associated with Jesus and does Jesus not teach peace and anything to do with Homeland Security is trying to reach peaceful solutions for our country. You are just being politically correct and failing your students and the American people.
Jacqueleen says
Every time an individual or an organization succumbs to the pressure applied by CAIR or any other group of Muslims, we give them the edge to be closer to controlling us altogether and they see us as weaklings. The radical Muslims are openly violent but the moderate Muslims are practicing DAWAH which means multiply and infiltrate all facets of society until in the majority so that they can take over the nation without firing a shot. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PEACEFUL MUSLIM. DO YOU WANT TO FIND OUT ONCE UNDER SHARIA LAW JUST HOW MEAN AND NON-PEACEFUL THEY TRULY ARE???? Fight back all accusations from the Muslims. We Christians know WHO THE ACCUSER TRULY IS….THE DEVIL…Islam is a demonic cult.
joanofark06 says
Hi Jacqueleen,
At first, you said “the moderate Muslims are practicing DAWAH which means multiply and infiltrate all facets of society until in the majority so that they can take over the nation without firing a shot.”
And I was thinking “there is no such thing as a moderate muslim”!, But as I continued to read, I saw that you DID know that, by saying: “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PEACEFUL MUSLIM.” You should have kept the word “moderate” in the place of your word, “peaceful”, but that’s trivial…sorry.
Anyway, since it’s been all over the ‘net, I’m sure you’ve heard by now, what PM Erdogan of Turkey had said, back in 2007? Everyone in the world, needs to hear these words, as they are SO telling about Islam: (One link of hundreds, where THIS has been posted online, is below it)
Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”
http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/10/islam-is-islam-and-thats-it/
And if you clink on that link, you’d REALLY would have to watch that short video, which is also on youtube, if you wanted to download it from there, as it won’t download from that original link.
(I’ve been archiving everything about islam, since 9/11, and have tons of stuff, and that video is definitely going in there!) Boy, does that video tell all. It’s nothing that most people don’t know already, but it’s truly amazing that the truth is being said (about islam), right there out the open for everyone to hear, in your face, etc etc…
And even though I knew, all of what it showed, it still gave me a shock!!
And your last sentence is more true than you know!
I had this thought awhile back, and I’m pretty sure I’m still the original thinker of it. Think about this:
The bible says that during the tribulation, people will HAVE to get a “mark” to buy or sell. (These will be all of God’s people as they WON’T take SATAN’S mark, as you know.)
There will be millions of people, all around the WORLD, who will NOT take this mark.
Wouldn’t satan need a LOT of people to “punish” all these people, for not taking the mark? He couldn’t do it, all by himself, right? (He’s still just a regular, physical man)
So first, what is the “punishment” for NOT taking the mark? Rev 20:4 tells us that (notice capitalized word:
“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were BEHEADED for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark in their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
So now that we know what the punishment is, how is satan going to do this, to the millions of people?
He needs millions of people (followers) to help him, all around the world, right?
So, here’s the second part. Why did thousands of “refugees”, immigrate to ALL these countries, at this time in history?? And isn’t that “punishment” in the koran too?? Put two and two together, and now you have the PURPOSE of this HUGE immigration to MANY countries. (And you didn’t think there was a purpose for it…HA!…lol)
So, as you know, it is said, in our bibles, that satan has a short time, and well, I believe it just got a little bit shorter! I think when satan gets all his people in their correct spots, the 7 year Tribulation period begins….so what do you think?
jihad3tracker says
A 3-DAY WEEKEND IS COMING — WITH THE M.L.K. HOLIDAY. So if that gives you enough free time to send a couple of emails, please do so.
The first should be to Mae Beavers, of course, for her courage in trying to increase awareness of the truth about Jihad and its link to FULLY-ORTHODOX ISLAM. in that note to her, send specific websites , like JW of course, along with several others. Two favorites of Yours Truly are www [dot] inquiryintoislam [dot] com + www [dot] citizenwarrior [dot] com.
The second email ought to be directed at one of the top persons in the administrative department — perhaps mentioned in that USA Today article. When I write to such clueless and gullible (but well-intentioned) people, I include my OWN path from ignorance about the agenda of Islam, plus the pathological life of Muhammad.
b.a. freeman says
*excellent* agenda, jihad3!
although there are many dyed-in-the-wool leftist liars out there, most leftists are only so because of the “education” they received in the indoctrination centers called public schools (K-postgraduate). as U noted, such nominal leftists have good intentions, but lack information on the evil cult of islam. thus, it is *always* better to be polite and ask them to check for themselves, rather than attacking them as idiots, since nobody is convinced by an attack from a stranger.
Lydia Church says
That’s what I’ve been saying too.
There are Christian converts from all former walks of life.
Even aside from that, sometimes people finally wake up and get it.
Being rude will help nothing. A little humor and such is fine within limits,
but being mean helps nothing. And there is that saying:
“You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”
(Not that anyone is a fly….)
( ;
Lydia Church says
And JW offers a good morning wake up call dose of coffee!!!
: D
CRUSADER says
Jihad3Tracker ~
What in a nutshell/elevator chat is your own path from ignorance about the agenda of Islam?
It would be presumed your moniker has to do with “The Third Jihad”, by Clarion Project, yes?
Good film, that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S04kUKRlS6k
The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America
https://clarionproject.org/third-jihad-radical-islams-vision-america/
jihad3tracker says
Hello all — I have web server problems currently. Apology for being offline for several days from now (Saturday) on through the weekend.
CRUSADER says
Will track the tracker a little later. 😉
Stacy Girl says
Put them on the list. Either you’re with us or against us.
Ray Jarman says
If the alumni refused to provide the college with funding, I bet they might, like Hank Williams, see the light or as Mr. Williams told Minnie Pearl once, “Minnie, the light is growing dimmer.” This was only weeks before he died. I think that the administrators have forgotten that they are a Christian institution which believes in Jesus Christ as our redeemer where as Islam is the antithesis of the Holy Spirit and the loving our neighbors. One Islamic tribe hates all other Islamic tribes and history bears this out and as Professor James Herzog (R.I.P.), University of Maryland, once said, “The only thing keeping the Middle East from destroying itself is their hatred of Islam.” If I were paying for a child to attend that college, I would find another university with at least an even hand in their political views and yes I realize that would be difficult but one of the three military academies or maybe the Merchant Marine Academy.
Also maybe if the President wakes up and realizes that Gen. McMasters at the NEC needs to be replaced by someone not afraid to put CAIR on the list of Terrorists.
StellaSaidSo says
‘A kind of who’s who of Islamophobes’ said Ibrahim Hooper (CAIR’s Number One Bully Boy)
And we all know what an ‘Islamophobe’ is, don’t we? Someone who is well-informed about Islam, and willing to tell the truth about it.
Can’t have that, can we Ibrahim (or should we call you Douglas, which was your name before you joined the vile cult of Islam)?
Shame on Trevecca Nazarene for allowing itself to be bullied.
gravenimage says
Tennessee’s Trevecca Nazarene University drops Homeland Security Summit after complaints from Hamas-linked CAIR
……………………
Sure–why support the protection of Americans when your enemies demand that you not?
CRUSADER says
When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, captured Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities, militants began singling Christians out. The symbol that marked their homes and businesses — the Arabic letter “n,” ( ن ) which is pronounced “noon” and stands for Nazarene or Nasrani, the Arabic word for Christian — reportedly was a signal: convert, pay a tax or be killed.
DEFIANCE !!!
ن = bravery
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/for-christians-symbol-of-mideast-oppression-becomes-source-of-solidarity/
R Russell says
Does anyone know if this is a university which is part of the ‘Church of the Nazarene’ denomination?
Or does it just have a similar name?
Lydia Church says
Yes, it is.
In fact I was just going to comment about that.
On another news blog; RATHER EXPOSE THEM,
they have a post on that very same university today!
(1-12-18)
They mention radical islam and a whole list of dirty laundry
at that university, the very same location and name.
It is because that is one of the denominations that has gone into…
the great apostasy of the end times church.
That is another bag of goods.
And all these things are connected… trust me.
Just when we thought it was just another crime, we find the tip of the iceberg.
Terry Gain says
I oppose hate, totalitarianism, supremacism, imperialism, xenophobia, violence, rape, misogyny, homophobia, pedophilia, female genital mutilation, honor killing, blasphemy laws, barbarism, backwardness, using tents for dresses rather than camping, 72 Virgin Fabulism and deceit.
Consequently, I oppose Islam, not just radical islam and hijacked Islam but Islam
Lydia Church says
Homosexuality is a sin and if we oppose it, we are not ‘homophobes,’ we are righteous.
I’m a Christian so I’m responding to that.
In light of recent news events,
I am nice to everyone and a good Samaritan to people,
I just won’t bake the gay cake for them, and I have that right.
To argue otherwise is to support dictatorships that persecute Christians.
And no, it is not ‘discrimination,’ it is standing against sin, and for that
they discriminate against us.
But otherwise it all sounds good to me.
Not sure about that tents for dresses bit though…
: D
LeftisruiningCanada says
MFritz, Christ made it quite clear in Matthew 19 that marriage is intended to be only between one man and one woman, period.
Aside from being the same God who gave Jews the Torah, and the rest of the Tanakh which never said anything positive about homosexuality, He also in His life on earth came out of a Jewish milieu within which there was no support for homosexuality.
Christ didn’t say much about, for example, bestiality, but we don’t use His silence on that issue to redefine it as permitted.
Christ died to take away the sins of His people. Homosexuality is one of those sins.
” Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. *And such were some of you*. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
joanofark06 says
You know, cussing and speaking about things in the bible, is like oil and water…they don’t mix.
Cussing just shows how non educated you are of the english language, and how mature, or should I say “immature” you are.
Why don’t you go ahead, and use the G*d D*mn word, here, why your at it…at least your bible talk would have a word in common with it!! No, really…don’t!
And since you know so much of the bible, maybe you missed learning THESE??
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matthew 12:34-36
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14
Do you think your profanity would be acceptable to our Lord??
This is something someone said one time, and I would agree….
Jesus taught in the Bible that when a man curses or uses profanity it is a sign of evil that was in that man’s heart.
LeftisruiningCanada says
This is obviously an emotional subject for MFritz. That’s ok, but it doesn’t make for reasonable discourse, as can be seen from the lack of interaction with the posts above.
There is nothing barbarous, moronic or bigoted about considering homosexuality to be another sign of our broken humanity.
Christians do not wish to harm people who have homosexual desires, anymore than they wish to harm people who are attracted to other sinful desires and actions.
We do not expect that homosexual desires will disappear from the world before Christ returns, and won’t start harming people to make it seem like they have, something islam is rightly reviled for.
We want them to be freed from those corrupt desires and actions.
Christ Jesus came to set sinners free. He can and does free people from the sin of homosexuality.
One example out of many many examples:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ex-gay-homosexuality-is-just-another-human-brokenness
mortimer says
The Pollyannas of Trevecca Nazarene University cannot see the dangerous cliff that is so clearly ahead if Americans do not awaken to the JIHAD THREAT.
Jihad is an USUL UD-DEEN (an essential doctrine of Islam). Any Muslim who does not believe in as well as conduct jihad will not be admitted to Islamic paradise. In other words, JIHAD-TERRORISM is a holy sacrament of Islam and it is incumbent upon all Muslims to finance, support and conduct JIHAD.
Most Muslims support and conduct the JIHAD OF THE TONGUE, namely, by lying about jihad, concealing jihad and misleading dirty kafirs about jihad.
Trevecca Nazarene University has been perfectly deceived by CAIR about the deadly nature of jihad, to the point that the staff at Trevecca Nazarene University believe it is a sin against charity to oppose their subjugation by JIHADISTS.
mortimer says
The reply by Beavers is 100% true, namely, that Trevecca Nazarene University is supporting those who deny and oppose the Christian doctrines espoused by Trevecca.
Trevecca Nazarene University is supporting its own enslavement under discriminatory Islamic law.
LeftisruiningCanada says
““Trevecca Nazarene University blocks Mae Beavers event criticized as anti-Islam,””
If what they were going to talk about at this conference was violent jihad against America, and CAIR opposed it as being anti-islamic, then he is surely saying that violent jihad against America is islamic?
CRUSADER says
Darned dhimmis !! TNU can’t live up to its middle name. ن
“Nazarene:” A “Mark of Shame” Becomes a “Mark of Hope” | …
https://aclj.org/radical-islam/nazarene-a-mark-of-shame-becomes-mark-of-hope
The ن is now being shared on social media as a symbol of solidarity with the Iraqi Christians forced to flee their homes. The Catholic blog Rorate Caeli wrote, the Islamists “mean it as a mark of shame, we must then wear it as a mark of hope. . . . You may kill our brethren and expel them but we Christians will …
LeftisruiningCanada says
Strange mark. It’s like a cyclops smiley face.
CRUSADER says
Hilarious!
ن
This Is Not a One-Eyed Smiley Face, It’s a Symbol of Frightening …
http://www.theblaze.com/…/this-is-not-a-one-eyed-smiley-face-its-a-symbol-of-frightening-...
“Please say a prayer today for persecuted Christians and minorities in Muslim countries,” ….. symbol for Nazarene, it is in solidarity with them.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Christ’s persecuted sheep are often in our prayers, so amen to that Crusader.
MFritz says
CAIR openly supports terrorist organisations, get rid of it.
Vann Boseman says
Trevecca Nazarene University is seeking to avoid ideas that they find difficult. Here they are displaying by their actions that Christianity cannot cope or talk about real life issues for Nazarene Christians with moral integrity, while they are also by their actions displaying that they are intellectually unprepared to cope with or talk about Islam. I do not necessarily accept that “Christian” education must succumb to moral and intellectual weakness to be viable to people in the heart of Nashville.
Michael Copeland says
Someone bring this to the University’s attention:
“Allah, oh our Lord, vanquish Your enemies, enemies of the religion in all places.
Allah, strike the Jews and their sympathizers, the Christians and their supporters, …….
Allah, count them and kill them to the last one, and don’t leave even one.”
Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Palestinian Media Watch, 3 December 2010.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2018/01/in-their-own-words/
LR says
Wow…Even this Christian university caved! This is getting bad…I remember after 9/11 it was the Christians who were getting a lot of holy h*ll online for criticizing Islam, and sticking up for Christianity.
It would have been good to read that the university stood it’s ground with CAIR, acknowledge their concerns, but since the U. finds such speech important to a free society they are welcome to come and ask qtuestions of the speakers, and correct any wrongs they think need correcting, etc.