[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

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[SJackson]

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[Cyclopean Squid]

Everything is morally relative to the LLL--except for Israel and President Bush's Amerika, which are pure evil.

And I'm not so comfortable in blaming leftist professors for the uncurious graduates churned out by the universities. Oh, I don't deny that there's a palpable bias, but it is up to the student to pursue rival viewpoints and self-education. Formal schooling can only achieve so much--it leaves many gaps. It can but whet one's appetitite for learning, and encourage informal study on particular subjects of interest. The people who swallow all the lies and ideologies of the Left do so because they are intellectually lazy. They do not have the constitution to learn on their own.

The leader of men described in this article may have great intelligence, but his complete lack of industry and self-motivation will doom him to a second-tier mind. He will do well in college and law school, and will likely be successful in his legal practice, but he will not attain any lasting fame or accomplish any world-changing feats. He will be but a cog in the machine, a care-taker, a vassal of the truly great individuals. I am of the mind that formal schooling is but a means to blackmail the masses into following a certain line of thought, to groom them in a secondary role of the care-takers of society. The truly great bristle at these constraints, and exist outside the system--they rise above the prosaic existence of the university and achieve everlasting glory through force of personality and the striking originality of thought. That is why all the world-historical figures have been poor-to-mediocre students.

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[FierceKulak]

Liberals and Muslims hold to tons of myths like the above to justify their hatred.
They counter factual accounts of terrorist atrocities by saying that they are just "Zionist conspiracies"

[nosofar]

Academia's abdication of its responsibility means that otherwise bright and capable Muslim students will not be afforded the opportunity - as many of us have been blessed to have - to re-evaluate and reassess their belief systems.

Academia is obviously wise enough to realize Muslims are completely incapable of rational thought and self-examination. (/hesitantly sarcastic)

[hershey]

Mowbray is so right.

[USF]

...the granddaddy of all modern-day terrorists, Muslim Brotherhood, also got the jump on Israel, launching more than two decades earlier. Yet the doctrine of the Muslim leadership is that creating a Palestinian state will eliminate terrorism.

Yup, in their twisted minds, once they have conqured Israel, they are free to focus on EUrabia. What's that old saying... "First the Saturday people, and then the sunday people" ("deal" with the Jews first, and then the Christians).

See: The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe

Its motto is telling: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope...."

...These organizations represent themselves as mainstream, even as they continue to embrace the Brotherhood's radical views and maintain links to terrorists. With moderate rhetoric and well-spoken German, Dutch, and French, they have gained acceptance among European governments and media alike. Politicians across the political spectrum rush to engage them whenever an issue involving Muslims arises or, more parochially, when they seek the vote of the burgeoning Muslim community.

But, speaking Arabic or Turkish before their fellows Muslims, they drop their facade and embrace radicalism. While their representatives speak about interfaith dialogue and integration on television, their mosques preach hate and warn worshippers about the evils of Western society. While they publicly condemn the murder of commuters in Madrid and school children in Russia, they continue to raise money for Hamas and other terrorist organizations....

[Convert from ECUSA]

Too many of these "academics" and their ROP buddies believe their own press releases.