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UNC to host Islam Awareness Week
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Posted on 10/11/2002 9:33:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

New motion filed in fight about Quran reading

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.(AP) - Attorneys for the organization that sued the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over a summer reading program that included a book about the Quran have filed a new motion.

The American Family Association's Center for Law and Policy said in an amended federal court complaint that UNC is attempting to push Islam upon its students. The university is hosting a number of events related to the religion this fall, the complaint said.

The group, which counts three unnamed UNC students among its five plaintiffs, earlier this year tried to block the university from administering its summer reading program.

The program also included the requirement that students write an essay and come to campus prepared to discuss the book in small groups. University officials said the program wasn't required.

A federal court denied the group's attempt to block the summer reading program, which went off as scheduled Aug. 19.

Attorneys now hope to stop UNC from administering a series of other campus events related to the Muslim faith. They include campus seminars, round-table discussions and an Islamic awareness week, scheduled for the week of Nov. 11-15.

"We were under the impression that the summer reading program was limited to the reading of a single book, and then the writing of the essay and the discussion group," said Michael DePrimo, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "There's a lot more going on than we thought there was when we first filed our complaint."

Although the complaint has been amended, much of the basis for the plaintiffs' accusations are the same. Attorneys plan to argue that by requiring the reading program and allowing so many campus activities focusing on Islam, the university is in essence trying to show the religion in a good light.

"The issue is whether or not the university is advancing the religion of Islam," DePrimo said. "And clearly they are."

The amended complaint was filed Oct. 4, and UNC has 20 days to respond. The issue will be decided in a federal district court in Greensboro.

"We will respond appropriately and in a timely fashion," said UNC's General Counsel Susan Ehringhaus, who declined further comment.

The lawsuit was organized by the Family Policy Network, a Virginia-based Christian values group

Along with the three unnamed UNC freshmen, the plaintiffs in the case are Terry Moffitt, chairman of the board of the Family Policy Network, and James Yacovelli, the group's state director for North Carolina. Yacovelli and Moffitt sued in their capacities as residents and taxpayers in North Carolina.


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What's with these folks anyway? Is UNC the Berkeley of the East?
1 posted on 10/11/2002 9:33:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
Bump for later ping.
2 posted on 10/11/2002 9:35:08 AM PDT by Hobsonphile
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To: Sub-Driver
It's happening all over this country.

The pro-Islam Left is forcing others to "tolerate" it.
3 posted on 10/11/2002 9:35:32 AM PDT by Guillermo
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To: Sub-Driver
Bomb them first then Iraq.
4 posted on 10/11/2002 9:36:37 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: Sub-Driver
Yeah. It's almost as if they are doing it to be intentionally in our face.
5 posted on 10/11/2002 9:37:13 AM PDT by CaptRon
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To: Sub-Driver
September 11 certainly made me more aware of Islam.
6 posted on 10/11/2002 9:38:28 AM PDT by Samwise
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To: Sub-Driver
UNC to host Islam Awareness Week

So I wonder are they going to:

Ban the Bible?
Kill any Muslim who converts?
Kill any infidels?
Rape the infidel's women?
Have their own women not be able to vote, drive a car, etc.?
Have the men take three wives?
etc.

7 posted on 10/11/2002 9:38:32 AM PDT by 2banana
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To: Sub-Driver

UNC STUDENTS, IN HONOR OF ISLAM AWARENESS WEEK, WE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT:

BE AWARE, ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF TERROR.. THAT IS ALL


8 posted on 10/11/2002 9:38:35 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Sub-Driver
The American Family Association's Center for Law and Policy said in an amended federal court complaint that UNC is attempting to push Islam upon its students.

Sauce. Goose. Camel.

(steely)

9 posted on 10/11/2002 9:40:48 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: Sub-Driver
I personally support and encourage Islamic awareness!!

"LOOK OUT!!!!"

10 posted on 10/11/2002 9:41:19 AM PDT by Tacis
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To: Sub-Driver
said in an amended federal court complaint that UNC is attempting to push Islam upon its students.

I have heard that the students have been given an expurgated version in this reading which does not contain things from Surah 5 and 9, among others ... as long as this attempt is made, we need to educate Americans ourselves ...

The Koran on Jews, Christians, Christianity, Christ, the Gospel, The Deity of Christ, the Holy Trinity, the Bible (the Book) and Infidels

http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/

"The Women" [4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and
kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.

[4.91] You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and
kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given.you a clear authority.

The Dinner Table - [5.51] O you who believe!
do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

The Cattle - [6.146] And to those who were Jews We made unlawful every animal having claws, and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat of both, except such as was on their backs or the entrails or what was mixed with bones: this was a punishment We gave them on account of their rebellion, and We are surely Truthful.

The Immunity - Denial of Deity of Christ and His Messiahship - [9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away! (MAY ALLAH DESTROY JEWS AND CHRISTIANS)

[9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away,
then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

The Congregation [62.6] Say: O you who are Jews, if you think that you are the favorites of Allah to the exclusion of other people, then invoke death If you are truthful. (PLEASE COMMIT SUICIDE)

The Cow - [2.111] And they say: None shall enter the garden (or paradise) except he who is a Jew or a Christian. These are their vain desires. Say: Bring your proof if you are truthful.

The Women - [4.171] O followers of the Book! do not exceed the limits in your religion, and do not speak (lies) against Allah, but (speak) the truth; the Messiah, Isa son of Marium is only an apostle of Allah and His Word which He communicated to Marium and a spirit from Him; believe therefore in Allah and His apostles, and say not, Three. Desist, it is better for you; Allah is only one god; far be It from His glory that He should have a son, whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His, and Allah is sufficient for a Protector. (CLEARLY STATES THAT JESUS IS **NOT** THE SON OF GOD)

The Dinner Table - The Dinner Table [5.14] And with those who say, We are Christians, We made a covenant, but they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of, therefore We excited among them enmity and hatred to the day of resurrection; and Allah will inform them of what they did.

[5.72] Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Allah, He is the Messiah, son of Marium; and the Messiah said: O Children of Israel! serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Surely whoever associates (others) with Allah, then Allah has forbidden to him the garden, and his abode is the fire; and there shall be no helpers for the unjust.

Quran tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q. 2:191), to murder them and treat them harshly (Q. 9:123), slay them (Q. 9: 5), fight with them, (Q. 8: 65 ) even if they are Christians and Jews, humiliate them and impose on them a penalty tax (Q. 9: 29). Quran takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and tell clearly that no other religion except Islam is accepted (Q. 3: 85). It relegates those who disbelieve in Quran to hell (Q. 5: 11), calls them najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (Q. 9: 28). It orders its followers to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (Q. 2: 193).

"Fight those who do not profess the true faith [ISLAM], till they pay the jiziya with the hand of humility." - Koran 9: 29

"....
I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, Smite ye above their necks [CUT OFF THEIR HEADS], and smite all their finger tips of them [CUT OFF THEIR FINGERS]." - Koran 8: 12

"
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate." - Koran 9: 73

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When you meet the unbelievers in the Jihad strike off their heads [CUT OFF THEIR HEADS] and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly." - Koran 47: 4

"The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet and alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom...." - Koran 5: 33-34

" Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last day, nor hold the forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jiziyah with willing submission. And feel themselves subdued." - Koran 9: 29

"....the Christians call 'Christ the Son Of God'. That is a saying from their mouth; (In this) they but intimate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth." - Koran 9: 30

"....the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn for ever in the fire of Hell. They are the vilest of all creatures." - Koran 98: 1-8

"Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell, back they shall be dragged, and will be told: 'Taste the torment of the Conflagration!'" - Koran 22: 19-22, 23

"And burn ye him in the blazing fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits. This was he that would not believe in allah Most high and would not encourage the feeding of the indignant. So no friend hath he here this day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds. " - Koran 31-37

"They say: Allah has taken a Son (to Himself)! Glory be to Him: He is the Self-sufficient: His is what is in the heavens and what is in the Earth; you have no authority for this; do you say against Allah what you do not know? Say: Those who forge a lie against Allah shall not be successful." - Koran 10:68-69 [SAYS JESUS IS NOT THE SON OF GOD AND WHOEVER SAYS SO IS A LIAR]

11 posted on 10/11/2002 9:42:21 AM PDT by Bobby777
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To: Sub-Driver; billbears; Howlin
What's with these folks anyway?
Is UNC the Berkeley of the East?

1) My diagnosis: Advanced Cranio-rectal insertionitis.
2) YES! It's at least the Berkeley of N.C.

12 posted on 10/11/2002 9:42:23 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Sub-Driver
Waiting for the Muslims students to march and protest against the Muslim sleeper cells.
13 posted on 10/11/2002 9:43:51 AM PDT by joyful1
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To: Sub-Driver
Islam Awareness 101 should require at least five students to blow themselves up, preferably in the faculty smoking lounge.
14 posted on 10/11/2002 9:44:30 AM PDT by T'wit
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To: Sub-Driver
..Islam awareness..

You want Islam awareness? Go pump gas in Fredericksburg for a week....

15 posted on 10/11/2002 9:44:30 AM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Guillermo
That is how we got to where we are today. Ignorant leftist think that Islam is a real relgion that deserves repect and equal access. The reality is, it is a cult of hate, and it should be banned.
16 posted on 10/11/2002 9:44:55 AM PDT by philosofy123
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To: *Old_North_State; **North_Carolina; mykdsmom; Lee'sGhost; KOZ.; borntodiefree; azhenfud; ...
"The issue is whether or not the university is advancing the religion of Islam," DePrimo said. "And clearly they are."

Chapel Hell ping!

Please FRmail me if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.

17 posted on 10/11/2002 9:46:57 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Sub-Driver
Thank you, but I am already quite, quite aware of Islam.
18 posted on 10/11/2002 9:48:04 AM PDT by Capriole
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To: Sub-Driver
And their basketball team sucks too. Go DUKE.
19 posted on 10/11/2002 9:50:27 AM PDT by kcar
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To: Bobby777
Great post. I do believe none of this will be mentioned during initiation.....I mean.....awareness week.

Americans have a long fuse, longer than most I think. But there is a limit....and I think this country and the people who live here are slowly reaching it.

At least I hope so.

20 posted on 10/11/2002 9:51:31 AM PDT by Dazedcat
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