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Dark Side of Shariah Malcolm A. Kline, May 6, 2010 While American textbooks try to pretty up the history of Islam, in the real world, its less savory contours still emerge, even in countries reputed to be the most tolerant towards those of other faiths. “The days of Christians in Morocco may be numbered,” Olivier Guitta writes on the Global Post. “A wave of so-called ‘proselytizing,’ that has reportedly converted tens of thousands Muslims into Christians, has prompted authorities to clamp down on Christian residents.” “Over the last several weeks, more than 50 Christians from the U.S., the Netherlands and...

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WARD CHURCHILL By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 24, 2005 05:03 PM KOA reporting: From Denver, live right now, CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano will hold a news conference regarding the review related to Professor Ward Churchill this afternoon at 3:00 p.m. (5:00pm EST) I'll liveblog anything newsworthy...ROUGH TRANSCRIPTION DiStefano: [This is] an important moment in the university history...CU has been the focal point of intense public debate...I personally found the [Churchill 9/11] essay to be profoundly repugant and hurtful [to the 9/11 victims]... Important values: -freedom of expression -personal integrity -academic freedom -intellectual honesty It often has been...

After applying and getting denied twice, the Boston University Nemeton Wicca Student Group was approved by the Religious Life Council as a new religious organization on campus Wednesday afternoon at Marsh Chapel. The RLC denied the group, which applied as a pagan organization the first two times, because paganism is not formally recognized as a religion. But, last semester the organization changed its affiliation to Wicca, which is considered a religion, changing its name to the Wicca Student Group this year. Nemeton President Aubrey Hooser said renaming the group was not an issue. "The majority of the group follows Wicca,...

Tech plans change in admissions Race-based policy set for approval by regents By SEBASTIAN KITCHEN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL The Texas Tech Board of Regents is expected to approve race and ethnicity as factors in admissions at its Friday meeting. Other universities, including the University of Texas, returned to race-based admissions after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June stated that race and ethnicity can be included as factors in the ad missions pro cess. The change has met opposition on campuses throughout the country, including Tech and Texas, where the Center for Equal Opportunity and other organizations are attempting to overturn the...

When is the word “diversity” not tolerated on campus? When someone tries to put the word “intellectual” in front of it. The debate over David Horowitz’s campaign for intellectual diversity has been raging in Colorado for five months. By spring or fall, the debate may come to an intellectually not-very-diverse university near you. Horowitz, the veteran conservative activist, is promoting an “Academic Bill of Rights” to protect students and professors from the aggressive leftist mono-culture that dominates campuses today. Though clearly taking aim at the left, Horowitz scrupulously framed the bill in language that would protect everyone on campus, left...

Last week, two Philadelphia universities became the home of a growing, disturbing alliance of radical Muslims and white anti-Semites. The Muslim Student Association, a Wahhabi Islamist front, invited Dr. Bill Baker to speak at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University on the similarities between Christianity and Islam. Baker had recently been fired from Rev. Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral after California media revealed Baker was a founder of an anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi political group, the Populist Party. To make matters worse, UPenn paid Baker $5,000 for his insights. Thanks to FrontPage Magazine and some local activists, the invitation did not...