Posted on 09/04/2010 9:12:03 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Not only are US Mosques teaching and preaching Sharia Law, now our government is foolishly allowing a Sharia “college” to open. I say foolishly because Sharia is what the enemy wants to impose on us, and allowing it to be taught here in America, is the equivalent to allowing Nazis to have their own US schools during WWII. Not only do we have to end all Muslim immigration, we also need to ban Sharia Law. Then arrest and deport if possible, any Muslim who calls for Sharia. They are to be looked upon as enemies of the state, just as Nazis were.
California school aims to be country’s first accredited Muslim college
As controversy swirls around a proposed Islamic center near New York City’s ground zero and a handful of other mosque projects around the country, students will arrive this week at a California school that is aiming to become the country’s first accredited Muslim college.
Zaytuna College hopes to the train a generation of Islamic clerics and professionals in a Western Islamic tradition that school officials say is ill understood by many of the foreign-born imams currently working in the United States.
“There’s a triumphalist view that’s not conducive to the type of religion we need to see,” said Hamza Yusuf, chairman of Zaytuna’s trustees board, describing many foreign-born imams. “American Muslims can help change a lot of the Muslim world to create the potential for conviviality.”
The school, located in Berkeley, will offer just two degrees – Arabic, and a combined Islamic law and theology major – when it opens its doors Monday to the 15 students in its first freshmen class. The class includes eight women and seven men.
But its leaders say they plan to expand to around 150 students in the school’s first four years and that they want to eventually train young people for careers in U.S. law, journalism, academia, and other fields.
First year tuition is $11,000 plus room and board, according to the school.
The school has yet to generate much controversy, but Yusuf, a co-founder who is the public face of the school, said he expects such criticism will come.
“I think the American people that are criticizing the ground zero mosque… are also criticizing us,” he told CNN’s Don Lemon on Sunday. “It’s par for the course right now. Islam is an acceptable target. To be prejudicial towards Islam is politically correct.”
But experts on American Islam say that the strain of modernist, mystical Islam espoused by Yusuf, which draws on Sufi traditions, might be more controversial among conservative Muslims. SNIP
Though Zaytuna has received little attention outside the Muslim world, many American Muslims have been watching the project closely.
“It is hugely significant,” said Eboo Patel, a prominent Muslim activist who focuses on youth organizing. “Part of what America is about is that people from diverse background build on traditions that are inspired by their heritage but that serve the common good, in the same way that Catholic universities or Jewish hospitals do.”
“The big story right now is the integration of Muslims into America,” he said, “and the establishment of Zaytuna is an important milestone in that arc.”
Eboo (one of Obama’s Islamic con men), Sharia is not about Muslims integrating. In fact is is quite the opposite.
I fear our mostly apathetic population and feckless political 'leaders' are willfully blind to the danger our easy acceptance of such institutions brings to our nation. I'm concerned that we are allowing freedoms enemy to thrive within our midst. Much of that is PC-based, as we saw in the Fort Hood massacre that allowed a clearly hostile and fanatical Muslim doctor to rant against America and our way of life while his military superiors looked the other way because they didn't wish to appear 'bigoted'.
The Islamists know this and use it against us, along with our constitutional freedoms. See how quickly they whipped out the 'freedom of religion' card as a shield against the overwhelming public disapproval of the 'Ground Zero mosque', as if not building a huge mosque at that exact location is somehow preventing N.Y.C. Muslims from practicing their religion. Total BS that far too many politicians echo, demonstrating how barbaric Islamic Sharia law can gain a foothold in a country where, by any measure, it is in direct opposition to our constitution.
At this point I am so fed up I say GOOD.
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