Academia Bows to Islamic Terror

American Thinker.com ^ | May 26, 2020 | Paul Miller and Abraham H. Miller

[Kaslin]

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, but not everyone shares in the cost.

Even fewer comprehend that the threat to our democracy is more likely to come from the internal erosion of our civic institutions than from external forces.

The most corrupting influence on our democracy is rooted in political correctness in our education system. Whereas there once was an emphasis on civic education as a means to imbue the citizenry with the values of the Constitution, that emphasis has long been diminished.

From elementary school through college, basic requirements in American history and civics have been replaced by political trendiness.

Consequently, it is not surprising that our educational system has produced generation after generation of college administrators who suffer from an embarrassing ignorance of the fundamental political values of the republic.

These present-day Gletkins (the character who embodied the ideology of Stalinism in Arthur Koestler’s classic, Darkness at Noon) have been suckled on a steady diet of political correctness, and so it follows that they are quick to trample basic liberty when it gets in the way of political expediency.

If any institution in our society should embrace the value of the free marketplace of ideas, it should be our colleges and universities. In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley launched “The Free Speech Movement” to protest campus restrictions on political speech.

Today, more than half a century later, students on the same campus mobilize to enforce the heckler’s veto or resort to violent confrontation to disrupt or prevent lectures from people who hold political positions with which they disagree.

No longer places for free inquiry or the challenge of dissonant ideas, colleges are now temples of intellectual conformity unworthy of our democracy.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Islamic political correctness is part of the problem. Overall, Any teaching that questions the prevailing leftist groupthink is immediately punished by leftist College Deans who quickly and ruthlessly guard the status quo.

[ClearCase_guy]

They are bowing down before a theocratic movement in which religious leaders control the laws and control what you are allowed to think. The US Constitution with it’s quaint little notion of Freedom of the Press and other such things needs to be abandoned. Sharia law is all you need.

People who disagree with the official party line can be stoned to death. Homosexuals can (and should!) be thrown off roof tops. Women can (and should!) be beaten by their husbands. Slavery is perfectly fine. It’s not OK to follow your own religion. It’s not OK to be atheist. You must be a Muslim. A good Muslim. If you fail to be a good Muslim, they will kill you.

This is the ideology that US academics think is double-plus good.

[I want the USA back]

Truly amazing. The academic elite totally hate and scorn a religion that tells you to be kind to your neighbor and turn the other cheek, while at the same time eagerly embracing and actively promoting a savage death cult dating back to the seventh century that enforces subjugation of women to men, killing homosexuals, stoning adulterers, and violently killing everyone who won’t join the cult.

[SERE_DOC]

"Even fewer comprehend that the threat to our democracy is more likely to come from the internal erosion of our civic institutions than from external forces."

Wow the irony of pointing out the internal forces of our demise, and yet prolonging the myth of us being a democracy and not a republic.

If the author of this well written treatise would have bothered to reflect the truth that is America and not subject to realities of what we are and what we are not.