Posted on 10/18/2006 4:29:18 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski
(AgapePress) - "For Christ and Humanity." That's the motto of Olivet College in Michigan, where a Christian student says he was punished by one of his professors for making a reference to God in the classroom.
Olivet College freshman Jeremiah Bannister, an aspiring journalist, claims he was recently the target of anti-Christian bigotry and grade retaliation in his "Writing and Rhetoric" class. Bannister says Professor Austin Jackson, a Sunni Muslim, took exception to an essay he and another student had written opposing affirmative action and slavery reparations.
The freshman shares that when he was asked by the professor to voice his personal opinion on what African-Americans can do to overcome historical prejudice, one of his suggestions was prayer -- a response that upset the educator.
"He was very, very angry about it," says Bannister, "[and] said that invoking God in class was unacceptable; that it was anti-intellectual, that it was belligerent, and [that] it was completely unacceptable in his classroom. And he actually docked us 10 points from our grade because I invoked God in my opinion of what could be done."
According to Bannister, he was instructed to never mention anything about God or Jesus in the classroom. He says he has talked to the school about the situation.
"I guess there were numerous standards of the school handbook policy that were broken by the professor in doing what he did, but they are going to be addressing the problem," says the student, who suspects he may be asked represent other Christian students before school officials.
"I may also have to speak before the administration of the school on the issue of the treatment of Christians and the Christian worldview on campus, and the general feeling amongst many Christian students that we are being marginalized and even oppressed in many areas and treated badly."
Jackson, who is a doctoral student in the African American and African Studies Program as well as a full-time professor at Michigan State University, is an open proponent of communism.
They need to eliminate the tenure system. If they got rid of all the professors like this guy, the cost of a college degree would be cut in half, and the quality would go up.
A Sunni Muslim who is an open proponent of communism, an atheistic melange of beliefs. One of two things is true. This professor is holding two contradictory beliefs and needs his head examined, or he is a Muslim that is now openly denying the existence of Allah and needs his head removed by the faithful.
A Sunni Muslim with a Christian name and a proponent of Marxism? Does not compute.
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age?
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom,and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength 1Corin 20
I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE; THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE INTELLIGENT I WILL FRUSTRATE"
Olivet College is named after Mount Olivet: the location of the Agony in the Garden. Only in bizarro-land would anyone ban the word "Prayer" in such a place.
Also note that this failure is apparently a tenured "professor" at MSU!
Black Muslim Racist Scumbag BUMP
Either transformed or dead.
I was thinking more along the lines of Somalia or Malawi.
You know, real black muslim paradises on Earth.
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He's an intellectual.
/sarc
Wow. A muslim commie professor. You can't get much screwier than that.
Zimbabwe would be an excellent choice.
I was thinking more along the lines of Somalia or Malawi.
You know, real black muslim paradises on Earth.
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Or the Sudan....
African-American Studies? Ah yes...one of the pillars of a classical education!
A Sunni Muslim who is an open proponent of communism
This is the caliber of professors we have shaping young minds. Thank G-d I'm in my 30s. Last semester, my Sociology professor accused me of being a "cultural elitist" when I told him that American culture is the best culture in the world. He also called me a "right winger" when I told him our text book was liberally biased. Still got an "A" in the class though.
Can a doctoral STUDENT be a professor? I thought you first had to be a Ph.D. to be a professor.
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