http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/muslimstudents/ en-us Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:53:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068562/posts An Iranian-born former student has been sentenced to up to 33 years in prison for plowing his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. wxix.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068562/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:53:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066085/posts “Hadith of Hate” Banned at USC   By Reut R. CohenFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 22, 2008 As Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapters have become increasingly influential at universities and colleges around the country, critics have charged that it is a hate group that sympathizes with the international jihad and promulgates an anti-American and anti-Semitic ideology in its campus actions. In response, the MSA has claimed that it is merely another religious and cultural group similar to Hillel, a club for Jewish students, or the Newman Club for Catholics. That deception has been now unmasked at the University of Southern... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066085/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:32:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055844/posts "Most devout Muslims are creationists so when you go to schools, there are a large number of children of Islamic parents who trot out what they have been taught," Prof Dawkins said in a Sunday newspaper interview. "Teachers are bending over backwards to respect home prejudices that children have been brought up with. The Government could do more, but it doesn't want to because it is fanatical about multiculturalism and the need to respect the different traditions from which these children come." Prof Dawkins, professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University, is author of books including the... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055844/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:40:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054291/posts Imagine if the principal of a Catholic school in the metro D.C. region was found guilty of failing to report an allegation of child sexual abuse. It'd be considered worthy of front page news for the Washington Post, at the very least a front pager for the paper's Metro section. Yet reporting the conviction of Abdalla I. Al-Shabnan on July 31, the Post buried the story on the 6th page of the Metro section. Here's how staffer Tom Jackman opened his story: The director general of a controversial private Islamic school in Fairfax County has been found guilty of a... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054291/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:15:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051921/posts If ignorance and poverty are responsible for the growth of extremist views in the Islamic world, someone needs ask Muslim students, privileged enough and bright enough to attend some of the United Kingdom's best universities, why one-in-three of them endorses killing in the name of Islam. The report of this finding, based on a poll of 600 Muslim and 800 non-Muslim students at 12 universities in the UK, and conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Center for Social Cohesion, will be released tomorrow as "Islam on Campus." Among its findings of Muslim beliefs: 40 per cent support introduction of... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051921/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051798/posts The survey found that extreme Islamist ideology has a profound influence on a significant minority of Muslims on campuses across the country. The findings will concern police chiefs, the security services and ministers, who are struggling with radicalisation among Muslim communities. The YouGov poll was conducted for the Right-wing think tank, the Centre for Social Cohesion, at 12 universities, including Imperial College and Kings College London. It also found: * 40 per cent support the introduction of sharia into British law for Muslims * a third back the notion of a worldwide Islamic caliphate (state) based on sharia law *... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051798/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:13:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049586/posts Because they are so clearly designed for the convenience of large testing companies, I had always assumed that multiple-choice exams, the bane of any fourth-grader's existence, were a quintessentially American phenomenon. But apparently I was wrong. According to a report last week by the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, it seems that the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education finds them useful, too. Here, for example, is a multiple-choice question from a recent edition of a Saudi fourth-grade textbook, "Monotheism and Jurisprudence," in a section that attempts to teach children to distinguish between "true" and "false" belief in God: Q.... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049586/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:32:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048170/posts WASHINGTON — Two years after protracted American-Saudi negotiations persuaded the State Department that the Saudis would remove religious intolerance from their national textbooks, a new study finds the books still portray non-Sunni Muslims as the enemies of true believers. The report from the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute finds that the Saudi textbooks are filled with the austere supremacism of the Wahhabi sect of Islam, despite promises from the Kingdom in 2006 to alter them. For example, a textbook for 10th graders on Islamic jurisprudence not only says it is permissible in Islam to murder a homosexual,... nysun.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048170/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:54:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046082/posts By Jerry Markon and Ben Hubbard Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, July 15, 2008; Page B01 A Saudi-funded academy in Fairfax County used textbooks as recently as 2006 that compared Jews and Christians to apes and pigs, told eighth-graders that these groups are "the enemies of the believers" and diagrammed for high school students where to cut off the hands and feet of thieves, a Washington Post review of the books has found. Saudi officials acknowledged that the textbooks used at the Islamic Saudi Academy had contained inflammatory material since at least the mid-1990s but said they ordered revisions in... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046082/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:01:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045221/posts TAMPA - A former University of South Florida student will be sentenced today for holding a rifle at a shooting range for less than three minutes. Karim Moussaoui was convicted in April of a federal weapons charge of possessing a firearm in violation of his student visa. The Moroccan native and engineering student had gone to the Shoot Straight Tampa shooting range with a friend, Youssef Megahed, last summer and posed for pictures holding a .22-caliber rifle Megahed had rented. Because Megahed is a legal, permanent resident of the United States, he was allowed to posses and rent the weapon.... Tampa Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045221/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:58:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2037893/posts High school students in the Wahhabi-led school learn that "the Jews conspired against Islam" and Sunni Muslims should shun all Shia Muslims. They also are taught that killing an apostate or an adulterer is acceptable under Islamic law. And polytheists (defined elsewhere as Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and even Shia and Sufi Muslims) likewise can be subject to death for their transgressions. It is troubling enough to consider such lessons being ingrained in the minds of teenagers in Riyadh and throughout the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But the same textbooks are in use in Alexandria, Va., at the Islamic Saudi... IPT News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2037893/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:10:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036289/posts The State Department has no authority to close a Saudi-supported school criticized for violent teachings, a spokesman said Tuesday, despite an official request for guidance from the Northern Virginia county that leases space for the school's main campus. The department will "respond as appropriate" to Fairfax County supervisors, spokesman Rob McInturff said. "We work with the Saudi government ... to revise educational materials in Saudi Arabia, but this is a private school in the U.S.," Mr. McInturff said. "We don't monitor their activities or anything like that." Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly sent a letter Monday... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036289/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036340/posts American School Books Redefine 'Jihad' to Exclude Violence -- Where is Media? By Warner Todd Huston | June 8, 2008 - 21:49 ET In yet another example of why the west could be too weak to fight the sort of global terrorism that takes the form of Islamofascism, a textbook monitoring group is charging that American textbooks have been cleansed of mentioning the violence inherent in the Islamic "Jihad." Now, our children will not be taught what "Jihad" truly means, nor that it has been used as an excuse to kill their fellow citizens because our schools have sanitized Islam... newsbuster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036340/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:01:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035093/posts Oil Is Not the Only Saudi ExportSaudi hate is no worry for the just-say-no-to-energy crowd. By Deroy Murdock Look what your petrodollars helped to finance: “The cause of the discord: The Jews conspired against Islam and its people. A sly, wicked person who sinfully and deceitfully professed Islam infiltrated [the Muslims].” “In these verses is a call for jihad, which is the pinnacle of Islam. . . . Only through force and victory over the enemies is there security and repose. Within martyrdom in the path of God (exalted and glorified is He) is a type of noble life-force that... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035093/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:14:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032730/posts (CNSNews.com) - Religious textbooks at the Islamic Saudi Academy (IPA) in Fairfax, Va., which have sparked controversy for content that allegedly promotes violence and hatred toward non-Muslims, will be rewritten and reissued by the time students return to school in the fall, said school officials. "We hope the books will be clean from any kind of misunderstanding that people think about," the head of Islamic teachings at the academy, who asked not to be named, told Cybercast News Service on Tuesday. The IPA official, however, denied that the books used until now contain lessons that teach children to hate non-Muslims... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032730/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2032180/posts One dhimmi elementary school principal in Oregon has banned the Pledge of Allegiance, so as not to offend Muslims. Slowly they chip away at life as we know it. If this does not stop. Eventually Bibles and all non-Islamic religious symbols will be banned. All for a group of people who have never heard the expression "respect is a two-way street". When will this madness end? http://islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2008/06/oregon-school-bans-pledge-of-allegiance.html Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2032180/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:22:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030985/posts Former University of South Florida engineering student Ahmed Mohamed agreed Friday to plead guilty to a federal charge of providing material support to terrorists. For their part, prosecutors plan to drop six other charges against Mohamed, 26, when he is sentenced. Among the counts to be dropped are charges of illegally transporting explosive material, possessing an unregistered destructive device, and a student visa violation for possessing a firearm. "This plea agreement was at the request of our client after a very long and agonizing decision by both him and his family, and it was his decision to resolve this matter... St. Petersburg Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030985/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:51:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030278/posts Radical British Muslims have formed chatrooms to discuss adopting orphans and bringing up children to be Islamic fighters, a study has found. Discussions on a number of radical websites have asked how children should be brought up to be "mujahideen" and whether they should be pulled out of mainstream schools. Other participants boast of how their children threaten to kill "kuffar" [non-believers] and complain that the Shakespeare being taught in schools is "full of homosexuality, fornication and adultery." The Centre for Social Cohesion says radical Muslims are using the internet to create a "virtual Islamic caliphate" and calls on the... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030278/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:16:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030169/posts McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday. Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030169/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:41:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029792/posts The books say it’s OK for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts McLEAN, Va. - Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday. Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists." The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in... MSNBC.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029792/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:25:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026387/posts At the University of California, Irvine the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American student group, holds several programs which unabashedly support terrorist groups and unjustly denounce Israel, America, and the Western world. MSU events have featured speakers like Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill, Muhammad al-Asi and Amir Abdel Malik Ali, and have had titles such as "Hamas: the People's Choice" and "Israel: The 4th Reich." On May 12, 2008 the Muslim Student Union invited Muhammad al-Asi to speak on the main part of the campus in front of the flag poles. Al-Asi has spoken at UC Irvine before,... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026387/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024787/posts The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine has posted more than 80 videos of their events at YouTube: YouTube - Cfalcon7688’s Videos. Anti-Americanism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, open advocacy of armed insurrection in the US, support for terrorist groups, Rachel Corrie’s parents, they’re all here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024787/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:01:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023213/posts DEARBORN, Mich. --A longtime high school wrestling coach has lost his job amid concerns a former assistant coach tried to convert Muslim students to Christianity. The Detroit News reports 35-year coach Jerry Marszalek's contract with Fordson High School in Dearborn, Mich., was not renewed. The decision was supported by 200 to 300 parents, who packed a Board of Education meeting Tuesday to support the principal's decision. The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023213/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 22:16:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018700/posts Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, DC, unanimously voted to continue leasing county property to the Islamic Saudi Academy, which is funded by the Saudi government. The school had been criticized for using textbooks which included virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Christian language and teachings. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a report last year urging the State Department to shut the school down unless it materially changed the textbooks to remove the hateful language. To quote the Commission, "Moreover, a 2006 report analyzing some Saudi textbooks from the 2005-2006 school year found that... Counterterrorism Blog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018700/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 16:50:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009179/posts ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University will create a new nanotechnology research center with the help of a $25 million grant from a Saudi Arabian educational partnership. Cornell says the money from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology's Global Research Partnership will be spread over five years. Cornell was among four universities out of 41 that applied to receive one of the grants. Oxford, Stanford and Texas A&M were also selected. The center will study nanomaterials for the use in oil recovery, carbon dioxide capture and sequestration, water desalination, and photovoltaics and solid state lighting. © 2008 Syracuse Online, LLC. 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