Posted on 08/22/2009 9:58:02 PM PDT by george76
The Colorado Center for Public Humanities has announced its fall series, “Islam in American Culture.”
It is a 4-part series, celebrating Islamic contributions to American music, urban design, community life, and literature.
The series will explore how Islam has influenced classic American art forms, such as the blues, how it has impacted the built environments of American cities, how it has merged with the nation’s foundational ideals, and how it is being represented by Islamic American writers.
The series will also shed light on how the core beliefs and values of Islam have been adapted to the American cultural context.
(Excerpt) Read more at thunder1.cudenver.edu ...
Yet another reason why my kids will go to CU over my dead body.
Yet antoher reason I’m ashamed to call CU my alma mater.
They will get nothing from me - because of what they have become. In the early 60’s when I was there it still was basically a coservative institution - although it was headed left.
Wow. Dhimmitude from Yale to Colorado
I wonder how many students fall for this crap?
typing mad.....corrections = another and Conservative.
“The series will explore how Islam has influenced classic American art forms, such as the blues...”.
Total bullshit...Blues is American music...period.
Just PC nonsense. They talk about “contributions” and “influence” and what American culture “adapted”. They don’t talk about Muslims in America actually doing things because it didn’t happen. Signers of the Declaration of Independence. World War II heroes, or any other war? How many Muslims served in US wars (on our side)?
Whats really needs to be researched is what Muslims ever actually accomplished in any era, and what did they merely take from civilizations they overran and then claim as their own?
Islamic contributions to American culture? Might as well examine the contribution of prostate cancer to American males....
I think the comments here are really unfair. Here, for example, is a great example of Islam’s contribution to contemporary American culture:
Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up...
...a 4-part series, celebrating Islamic contributions to American music, urban design, community life, and literature.What? Nothing about aviation or abnormal psychology?
WIll Obama be there for the opening?
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