First there was the University of California professor Hatem Bazian, who issued an open call for an “intifada” in America, with no professional consequences whatsoever; now comes the nutty Muslim professor Daniel Mashburn at Tarrant County College in Texas, whose bizarre antics sent some students running scared out of the classroom.
Aside from mumbling incoherently about the Quran, the moon, and the dark night, he was reaching into his pocket and covering his face. When interviewed by a reporter after police was called in, the usual sharia supremacism showed:
Todd: Are you aware that you scared some of those students?
Mashburn: Why should they be afraid?
Todd: Well you wouldn’t show your face.
Mashburn: Many people do not show their faces. And in many countries, they do not show their faces.
Todd: Well here in America, we tend to usually show our face when we are a professor at a college. That’s typically the standard.
Mashburn: Oh, yes. But I do not answer to your standard. I am not a Christian. I am not a Jew. I’m a Muslim.
Although Mashburn was suspended indefinitely and showed signs of mental illness, he was still coherent enough to exhibit the classic Islamic supremacist disdain toward Jews and Christians. Chances are that he will be allowed back to the classroom. Let’s hope the students remain safe.
“Muslim teacher’s bizarre religious rant, behavior under investigation after cops called to classroom”, Suarez Sang, Fox News, January 18, 2018:
A community college professor in Texas frightened several of his students when he walked into class Tuesday night with his face covered and incoherently mumbled about the Koran, the moon and the dark night.
Students attending a lecture at Tarrant County College called the police after adjunct professor Daniel Mashburn walked into his astronomy class and started acting out of character.
Students told FOX4 that Mashburn walked in about 20 minutes late and promptly turned off the lights. He was wearing a baseball hat, a beanie, a scarf over his face and gloves.
“The kid next to me had said he was acting very strange, and I looked over at the girl next to me and she seemed very scared,” student April McLeod said.
The students said Mashburn then started talking about the Muslim holy book the Koran and the moon and the dark night.
“Mostly he was talking about different things of the Muslim faith,” McLeod said. “I was in class for about five minutes. He kept messing with his pocket and you could tell there was an object in the right-hand pocket. And whenever he went to pull out his hand, I started having this really bad feeling and jumped up and ran out of the classroom.”
She added: “At one point he stood face-to-face with the board of the classroom and was just talking to the board.”
Eventually campus police arrived and searched Mashburn, who didn’t take off the scarf or baseball hat. Police found no harmful or illegal objects on the professor.
McLeod filmed police searching Mashburn outside the classroom. He was not arrested.
When reached by FOX4 News, Mashburn seemed to deflect many questions and said several times his teaching of astronomy goes hand-in-hand with Islam.
“I keep it secret. I keep it safe. I do my best, but I am tired of hiding in the shadows,” he said when asked if he explained his teaching philosophy when he interviewed for the position. “I am tired of fearing their law. I fear Allah.”
When asked specifically about the incident Tuesday night, Mashburn said he didn’t understand why they feared him.
“Why are they afraid? I’m a man who covers his face in his hand,” he said. “I offer you nothing but the Koran, a book and the universe. The universe is in my hand right here. You can look at it.”…..
Bev says
Get this freakazoid out of the classroom and never let him back him. Anyone that can believe the complete garbage that is the Koran is definitely mentally ill.
WorkingClassPost says
He probably wouldn’t be out of a job for long because he sounds just like the sort of ‘teacher’ that would fit in well at Berkely, or Stanford, or…
Doghouse Riley says
Exactly. He’s aimed too low. He’d get promoted to dean or president at an ivy.
b.a. freeman says
“… he sounds just like the sort of ‘teacher’ that would fit in well at Berkely, or Stanford, or…”
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… or at your local elementary school, where the left is *really* anxious to bring this crap, since they have been so successful teaching leftist crap there.
Westman says
“When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane, not in all things, but in religious matters. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic — for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it.” – Mark Twain
eduardo odraude says
When you quote more of the Mark Twain passage, Westman, the message is very different:
Unfortunately, Twain there is not recognizing Islam as an insane totalitarian religion far more dangerous than other major religions. Rather, his point is that anyone who disagrees with a person is considered to be insane by that person.
Nancy v says
good one eduardo. I agree with Westman’s slant, but appreciate you quoting in context.
Brenda says
Well I don’t agree with Mark Twain, I disagree with everyone but they are not all insane. None of them are insane. I know insane I am a nurse for 33 years I have seen insane this is insane. Delusional.
There is reality and there is out there. Koran is death and hate that is reality. The Bible is based on love and peace. And cherry picking verses without being knowledgeable and how God thinks, he tells you my ways are not your ways.
Brenda says
Well I’d be armed and dangerous every time I walk into that freaks room.
Brenda says
I would pack a loaded weapon to the class. He is about to commit a horrible act for his satan god, it wont’ be pretty. A bomb you can’t help but if he pulls a knife shoot him. He is building up to the state of mind to allow him to commit an atrocity. Make no mistake.
JawsV says
Looks like the infernal Koran drove this former Infidel batty. Agree with Bev above — any and all Koran believers are a few ants short of a picnic.
WorkingClassPost says
Yup, this looks like a classic case of the cognitive dissonance caused by trying to reconcile existing knowledge of science and astronomy, with a new found ‘belief’ in koran.
Enough to leave anyone a mumbling wreck.
FYI says
Yet another idiot convert who lacks the intelligence to differentiate between God and allah-hubaal and who has made a complete fool of himself.
SteveFinSC says
Well at least some of the students had enough sense to recognize his odd behavior and leave the classroom and call the police rather than sitting there too afraid of being an Islamophobe to move.
Arthur says
Those students that left are best labeled “survivors.” The students that remained in the classroom will someday be labeled “victims.”
Sarah says
I find the whole thing completely alarming, to be honest, Steve.
Sure, it’s great that at least some of the students recognized he’s a nutter. But what does that say about the state of American society today, that these (presumably young) students, when faced with a teacher who was babbling random crazy-talk and fingering an object in his pocket – automatically see ‘danger’ and decide to get the hell out, while they can?
It’s just so damn sad. There have been so many mass shootings now and far too many terror attacks, whether attempted or successfully carried out, that these kids are capable of recognizing the warning signs.
They’re in a schoolroom. They shouldn’t even need to have a finely tuned fight or flight response. And while I state ‘American society’, I’m not trying to dump on America specifically, because really, while mass shootings are more a mainstay of American society right now, terror attacks are not – everywhere in the West we are feeling the effects of those and frankly, I’d probably react the exact same way in a classroom here in my nation, Australia
And I shouldn’t. None of us should. We should be able to feel safe. We should not have to see a Muslim (or anyone for that matter) stand in front of us and behave oddly for whatever reason, and have at least some of us, react with genuine (and well warranted) alarm.
Meanwhile Politician’s across the West are too busy doing their absolute best to distract us from focusing on what the real and true problems are, rather than focusing on the simple truth right in front of us all.
We’re all in a great big bloody mess.
Scott in PA says
He was doing a test run.
underbed cat says
Yes that is what I thought as I read the article, he may be practicing for an event. Hope they do not allow him back into the classroom.
Abbisid says
Its not mental illness, for atheists/secular that is the only way the can understand Islam or any other religion, it’s just mental illness. This is demonic possession, if one sees the spiritual conflict going on, how else do you explain the vial, barbaric actions that are been carried out, that defy all hummanity. (Yes, Yes, there will be a flood of comments I am mentally ill, oh! well)
roberta says
You may well be insane, but even the crazy can be correct. They have an energy for evil that is demonic.
Waking up everyday with such hatred in their hearts. Such malintent for everyone and everything. Islam is a cancer.
Bruce Crichton says
Demonic possession does not exist.
His behaviour is the result of imbibing a mind-rotting ideology.
eduardo odraude says
Beg to differ with your first sentence, though the question partly depends on how one defines “demonic” and “possession.” But if what you call your “I” or self is a real, non-physical reality, and is not just your physical brain creating the illusion of an immaterial soul, then demonic possession of a sort is quite plausible as a possibility. All that is necessary as a premise is to be convinced that there are non-physical realities (such as a real “I” or “soul”), and the step from that to a non-physical world underlying the physical one is not a very large step. Such a world could easily include corrupt or insane or evil incorporeal beings to which certain of our behaviors, beliefs, associations, etc., may make us in varying degrees vulnerable. The alternative to acknowledging that one’s “I” is not just an illusion spun by brain chemicals seems to be to accept that all is meaningless, everything is just a random and accidental conglomeration of physical events that for a brief moment in cosmic time deceptively have given the impression of the existence of incorporeal selves with free will. If one follows out the consequences of such a dehumanizing view, one may conclude that physical brain events control us and create only an illusion that we have free will and non-physical minds incorporated into bodies. To me, however, it is more believable that the human mind as we know it in life is the result of interaction between a non-physical being and a human body and brain from the fetal stage to death, at which point the “I”, at least if it has not gone too far in destroying and decomposing itself, continues on incorporeally, perhaps to begin incarnating eventually again in a developing embryo.
eduardo odraude says
My above 8:31 pm comment is in reply to Bruce.
kuriakose says
Yes, those of us who are Christians believe this to be true. Ephesians 6:12-For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Infidel says
MUSLIM GONE COMPLETELY MAD!!! I’m sure, his next step would be mass murder. The authorities should let him NOWHERE, ESP NEAR SCHOOLS…. Man!! He could snuff out young tender lives in COLD BLOOD!!!
RonaldB says
We’ve got some smart kids in Texas.
This lunatic was obviously a danger, and the knew enough to get out of the room before he worked himself up into a frenzy.
There is a huge problem with giving special privilege to religious practice. There should be not special zoning variances or tax exemptions or exemptions from laws because of religious practices. An example is, the laws against cruelty to animals should not have an exception for religious slaughter. The religions can adapt.
I’m an atheist, but not in the least against religions. In fact, I support traditional American religious denominations and practices. But, the First Amendment says “no law respecting the establishment of religion” which seems to be pretty specific: no religious exemptions to laws. And I do not consider the display of religious symbols in public grounds a “law concerning the establishment of religion”.
I think the claim of Islam to be a religion puts the US legal practices into a quandary. If Islam is a religion, it gets the usual advantages: special exemptions, subsidies, tax breaks, and private school assistance. If the US decides Islam is not a religion, it establishes the precedence that the government can determine what is a legitimate religion and what is not. That will be fun, especially since most religions have breakaway groups which the mainstream doesn’t consider legitimate: like the Amadiya Muslims, who claim to reject violent jihad.
It’s better to allow religions to rise or fall on their own merits. They can obey the same laws the rest of us do, and if the law is intolerable, instead of simply getting an exemption, they can throw their efforts into getting the law changed for everyone, not simply themselves.
eduardo odraude says
US law forbade polygamy among Mormons. It also has forbidden other religious practices. US law cannot forbid beliefs. It can forbid speech that directly and unambiguously incites violence, violent sedition, treason. Because Islam is inherently political — the prime exemplar, Muhammad, became ruler of a theocratic state, and the Islamic calendar starts from that inherently political point — US tax exempt status becomes questionable for Islam. Politically and legally though, Muslims will have a lot of leeway and probably it will be easy for those Muslims who want sharia law to avoid problems by seeking sharia “peacefully,” and by being careful and indirect in speech even while the meaning and intent of that speech is clear enough to followers and suggests support for violent jihad. For American citizens, Islam has violently seditious and treasonous elements in its core teachings, but enforcement so far as I know has only netted people actually planning specific acts of Islamic violence. Mere Qur’anic exhortations to violence, as far as I know, have not been punished by the law yet, and probably rarely if ever will be punished, unless the preacher is clear enough that he supports those violent exhortations literally for the here and now.
CRUSADER says
Islam can be viewed as both a religion and an ideology, and perhaps legally be parsed accordingly….
StellaSaidSo says
Islam’s status as a religion should be re-considered. Content analysis of Islamic ‘holy texts’ reveals approx. 80% politics, and 20% religion. Islam is primarily a political ideology, whose authors gave it a religious aspect in order to make it palatable to the credulous, and inescapable. Overtly political in nature, Islam deserves none of the privilege traditionally accorded to ‘faith’ in Western societies.
Billy Chickens says
No students should ever return to his class. If there is no one in his class and no one registers for his classes there would be no reason to keep him at the college. I agree with Scott in PA that this was a test run.
StellaSaidSo says
I agree on all counts, Billy. The sort of behaviour displayed by Mashburn is chillingly similar to that displayed by Major Nidal Hassan, prior to his slaughter of his colleagues at Fort Hood.
ALLAN says
Since Texas is a stereo that allows the bearing of arms, students should start sending themselves for their own protection and use it when necessary.
ALLAN says
Apologies for the autocorrect.
“Since Texas is a state that allows the bearing of arms, students should start arming themselves for their own protection and use it when necessary.
Westman says
Tarrant County College is a 2-year college with 50,000+ enrollment.
Mashburn is an assistant professor, no tenure, whose, “..I do not answer to your standard”, will likely end his career at Tarrant. Two year colleges are well inspected by their state government’s higher education boards in anticipation of their becoming 4-year universities. Such incidents as this, without medical justification, will not be overlooked.
mortimer says
Question for Daniel Mashburn: At what place on earth does the sun SET IN A MUDDY SPRING (Koran 18.86)?? Or is the Koran wrong?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, the flat earth aspect of islam is another interesting thing.
CRUSADER says
You mean that Allah (in reciting to Mohamhead) was WRONG about the Earth being flat?
Does this mean that Thomas Friedman now knows of this being not the case any longer?
StellaSaidSo says
It is interesting that the encroachment of Islam in the West coincides with a revival in the West of the long-debunked Flat Earth b/s.
utis says
I notice the flat-earth videos on YouTube, and was wondering if there was an islamic hand behind some of that particular nuttiness.
MFritz says
And the name is really “hate ’em”? Besides, only criminals – in jail – convert to islam these days. Oh, and stupid feminists.
StellaSaidSo says
Islam was designed to appeal to the stupid and the thuggish. Most converts fall into one or the other category, or both.
MFritz says
Every time I hear from another jail convert I think “criminal has found his ideology”. And the black “heroes” from the 1960s (onward) were basically all terrorists (Malcolm X). Or morons (Muhammad Ali).
Forgetting that the very same ideology had enslaved their ancestors MANY centuries before (and after) white men came along.
StellaSaidSo says
Yes, Islam is tailor-made for criminals. It is no surprise that prisons are such a rich recruiting ground for Islam. Average Muslim IQ correlates with average inmate IQ. The pattern is all too familiar now. Morons who got banged up for stealing cars come out of gaol as members of a club which tells them that murder, rape, and plunder are OK, so long as you recite a few abracadabras, grow a beard, and stick your arse in the air 5 times a day.
Few black converts to Islam have any knowledge of the history of the slave trade except for the (relatively brief) period in which white traders were active. Nor are they aware of the racism inherent in Islam. Islam preys on the ignorant, and then does everything in its power to maintain that ignorance.
MFritz says
Same as with Nazism. Some of the worst contenders were insane criminals who could only be “somebody” in the Nazi State. Just have a look at the likes of Dirrlewanger.
Sarah says
What the hell is this college doing, having someone who is clearly quite unstable, teach students? They’re paying for that education, even if it is a community college – they deserve the same educational standards as any other University in America can provide.
I don’t care if he’s Muslim, if he’s batshit crazy, he has no place being in that job. Mark my words, if something isn’t done about this freak, he’s going to wind up on the news, along with a bunch of innocent victims.
CRUSADER says
Good for competent student April McLeod for speaking up and showing proper and valid concern.
Weirdo professor! He probably registered a star for himself in the sky. (Yeah, that scam happens.)
Meanwhile, most of the stars in the sky (just the hemisphere seen by Muslims at the time of naming)
have arabic names.
But, astronomer/commentator has this to say:
Neil deGrasse Tyson Talk about Science and Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdFMTDCfy8
David Wood:
Muhammad Explains the Universe (Islam and Science, Part One)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7I0IAl88jg
utis says
For the sake of science, I hope Mashburn has a degree in history of astronomy or sociology of astronomy or some other fruitcake degree title. Does the showoff even know Islam is a flat-earth ideology? Actually, does he have a degree, or is Tarrant one of those buck-grabbing institutions that overcharges the kids for tuition and textbooks and leaves them jobless for life?
Red says
STOP appeasing mohammedans – ban the doctrine – it is abhorrent
LOOK at what is happening in Europe
LISTEN to the truth
do not believe the appeasers – they are either fools or mohammedan mongers
Thomas Kimball says
The entire U.S. school system has gone completely to HELL from kindergarten through college level! They have become nothing more than indoctrination camps that harbor nut jobs they call teachers and professors. Hate filled leftists that spawn groups like antifa and fill kids heads with nothing but propaganda and useless B.S.and in dept them for years with student loans!
utis says
Atheist’s “Amen” to that, sir.
CRUSADER says
Erik Prince’s sister Betsy DeVos better SEAL up the School System before it gets too inundated by Black Water….
Just sayin’
Henry says
Now there’s a classroom of students who will never again fall for the liberal malarkey about how “we must keep all our educational institutions gun-free zones.”
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1
If they start preaching to the black board, keep your trigger finger handy.
Ashley says
I can only hope that Daniel Mashburn is being closely monitored by the authorities.
He strikes me as a ticking time bomb…
eduardo odraude says
Here’s my Yogi Berra-ism: “He’s not a ticking bomb waiting to go off, but it’s only a matter of time.”
Lydia Church says
And this had nothing to do with ‘not being a Christian.’ That is the standard, even for atheists, and who so ever.
Very strange behavior indeed!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Very strange.
The days of comfortable materialism are numbered.
Kenin says
Psalms 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
joanofark06 says
I KNOW that this is a VERY serious subject! BUT watch this short video, and be prepared to laugh!
I know it shouldn’t be laughed about, but you gotta let your guard down sometime, and stop being serious about it, for just a min….
Public Bomb Scare Prank Compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAqgXhblr-w
(I’d suggest leaving the sound completely off, it kinda ruins it, in my opinion, but if you want to leave it on, that’s up to you)
Now come on, laugh a little, and tell me, one of those, wasn’t hilarious!
Lee Gilbert says
This is just one more instance of what seems to be (in all seriousness) a message from God: “Tired of Christianity are you? Here, then, have some Islam!”
Under this view, the Islamic juggernaut cannot be stopped by counter-propaganda, deportations, new laws, arms, etc., but only by repentance from our apostasy and immorality.
Tayloch says
Mashburn: “I am tired of fearing their law. I fear Allah.”
Let that sink in as to how islam is a feeble, brittle cult.