Posted on 12/01/2003 11:58:58 AM PST by Apolitical
Sohaib Abbasi, a former executive at the Oracle Corporation, contributed $2.5 million to the Abbasi Program; Lysbeth Warren, a member of the Humanities and Sciences Council at Stanford, kicked in another $2 million. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, apparently worried about their reputation as spendthrifts, added a $4.5 million grant to the fund. That's makes $9 million -- a right tidy sum. But it's for a good cause -- it's for education.
Who knows? Maybe Johnny will finally learn how to read, and Jane will acquire the necessary skills to become a first-rate junior executive at-say, McDonalds or Wal-Mart.
But wait a minute -- hold your radical-liberal horses -- this is Berkeley we're talking about here, and there are strings attached. If Johnny and Jane expect to be on the receiving end of any of this educational largesse, they will have to study the Koran, learn how to spell burqa, plan a pilgrimage to Mecca, and read the works of John Esposito -- especially the latter.
You see, the $9 million is more for indoctrination than it is for education. It will fund the new Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Berkeley. It will expand the current curriculum of Islamic Studies, and will, hopefully, promote a better understanding of Muslim culture.
Say what? Promote a better understanding of Muslim culture? Now if that doesn't smell fishy it's because somebody has let Charlie out of the can. Isn't Islam a religion? They're not trying to promote a religion are they? Hasn't anybody told them about the separations of Church and State? Aren't these the same folks who have repeatedly excoriated Jerry Falwell for attempting to breech the famous wall between Church and State? Is there anybody at Berkeley who remembers Jefferson and Madison? Do they think Old Jeff and Little Jemmy would have approved of this nonsense? What would that dirty little atheist Tom Paine have had to say? Would it be printable?
What are these Berkeley rascals up to? Do they have an ulterior motive -- a hidden agenda -- are they trying to undermine Christianity, capitalism, George W. Bush, and the US government? Naw, those scoundrels would never attempt anything like that!
Maybe they're planning to sell prayer rugs between classes. There's a growing market in prayer rugs. Does Esposito have some kind of a contract with the Wahabbis? What are they paying for a convert these days?
John Esposito, a professor at Georgetown University and chair of Georgetown's Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, kicked off the Studies lecture series when he spoke on "The Future of Islam" at Berkeley's Oak Lounge. Esposito is Islam's foremost promoter in America. He beats the loudest drum in the Muslim parade. He's a super salesman. He could have sold shares in the French Panama Canal Company to Ferdinand de Lesseps; he could have sold the Brooklyn Bridge to W.C. Fields; if he stood on a street corner describing a Schwinn to a five-year-old and the Fonz happened by, the Fonz would buy one sight unseen, thinking he was getting the greatest Harley ever built. Esposito is a walking one-man South Sea's Bubble.
"We have to broaden our notions of plurality and tolerance," insists Esposito. "Tolerance must be based on mutual understanding and respect?Unless we do that, it makes for a bleak future....
(Excerpt) Read more at iconoclast.ca ...
Unless, of course, it is about Western Civ or Christianity.
In the last couple of years, the Saudi's have been funding Islamic private school in the South of Thailand. The regular, government schools begin the day with a Buddhist chant which is intolerable to the Muslims, of course.
At the time of the establishment of the radical Islamic schools, the Islamic fundamentalist movement to break away the southern most five provinces of Thailand to either join with Malaysia or form an Islamic state was at a low point after the conflicts of the 1990's. There were some 2 to 3 hundred armed radicals. Now, thanks in large measure to these "educational" institutions, there are some 3,000 armed radicals. You also have police and teachers in the public schools being murdered, temples and police stations being bombed, and JI militants using the areas to plan attacks in Indonesia, Singapore, etc. Hambali hid out for well over a year until the government started taking the Islamic threat seriously. It is a little hard to get teachers who are not Muslim to work in the south as well.
Ah, the blessings of an Islamic education. Peace be unto you.
I was thinking the exact same thing.... Where is the ACLU??!!??
Oh, I forgot, the ACLU only attacks Christianity and any opponent of marxism/totalitarian socialism. And since these radical islamofascist schools only preach hatred and indoctrination into terrorism, that's just fine with the ACLU.
You get the picture. They rather like haters of a different stripe.
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