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Maybe someone should write A-HOLE across the instructors face and stomp on that.Somebody needs to put the fear of God or an old man in this guy and this sh!t will stop.
Key section of the article:
“Have the students write the name JESUS in big letters on a piece of paper,” the lesson reads. “Ask the students to stand up and put the paper on the floor in front of them with the name facing up. Ask the students to think about it for a moment. After a brief period of silence instruct them to step on the paper. Most will hesitate. Ask why they can’t step on the paper. Discuss the importance of symbols in culture.”
It seems the Mormon responded the way the lesson anticipated, and therefore his cries of persecution are strange. It is also worth noting that the Professor is writing a book called “Obamamania: The rise of a mythical hero.” Which doesn’t sound positive for Obama.
I would have to get the Professor’s side of the story before I pass any kind of judgment in my mind on the matter. I am thinking that, most likely, the Mormon student overreacted, and made much ado about nothing, since the lesson itself says that refusing to step on it was part of the lesson itself.
The guy objecting is a devout Mormon.
The instructor is yet another affirmative action type.
In most Islamic cultures, the sole of the shoe is used to deliver the ultimate insult. Witness the infamous Baghdad press conference where Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at President Bush. This exercise was simply an attack on Jesus Christ by one of the gatekeepers of knowledge in America.
It hardly needs to be said that it is highly doubtful that he would have written “Mohammed” on that piece of paper. The irony is that it was done in the context of a class focused on “Intercultural Communications.” Is that really a proper approach to communications between cultures?
John 1:1
It’s the Professor who needs stomping, and the administration that suspended him.
WTF is wrong with these people?
This week, there has been a controversy in our local papers about a teacher who is under attack by CAIR for a lesson that she taught in school, during a section on bullying.
The teacher mentioned that sometimes bullying can take different forms, that sometimes political special interest groups use bullying tactics to advance a specific agenda. One of the students brought up Hamas and Hezbollah as one such group. The teacher agreed and the class discussed ways that this could happen. Terrorism is a form of bullying.
One of the students went home and told her Muslim father that the teacher called Muslims bullies. The father called CAIR and registered a complaint and it has progressed from there.
Christians do not have such lobby groups and wouldn’t use them if we did. Christians are not bullies. CAIR is an organization that uses bullying tactics.
write “0bama” on the paper and instruct everyone to stomp on it...see how that goes
“I said to the professor, ‘With all due respect to your authority as a professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate,’” Rotela said. ‘I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.’”
Say what you want about Mormonism’s theology, Mormons are pretty much polite to a fault. I wouldn’t have been as respectful to this “professor” myself.
This is almost word for word from tne C.S.Lewis novel ”That Hideous Strength”, written circa 1955. Very scary.
“Deandre” sounds like a black WOMAN’s name.
Stomp on Jesus all you want. He can take it.
We know Mohammed can’t, cause he’s DEAD!
He should be immediately be fired. There’s no reason in the world not to fire this bastard and charge him with a hate crime since it’s so fashionable to do it if the shoe were on the other foot.
“He had us all stand up and he said ‘Stomp on it,’” Rotela said. “I picked up the paper from the floor and put it right back on the table.
The young college student told the instructor, Deandre Poole, that the assignment was insulting and offensive. “I said to the professor, ‘With all due respect to your authority as a professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate,’” Rotela said. ‘I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.’”
Stomping on the Mormon Jesus PING
If the muzzies got anything right, it’s that they don’t f##k around with jagoffs who disparage their religion. This jagoff should be given a neck-tie party.
This young man is far, far more polite than I would be. Fools like this clown need to have somebody go upside their heads in class, in front of the young skulls full of mush they like to parade in front of. Finally, they need to be brought before the mast in the administration or the media.
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I thought I recalled something like that in Japan, don’t know if it’s true.
from wiki:
“The Japanese government used fumi-e to reveal practicing Catholics and sympathizers.[6] Fumi-e were pictures of the Virgin Mary and Christ. Government officials made everybody trample on these pictures. People reluctant to step on the pictures were identified as Catholics and were sent to Nagasaki. The policy of the Edo government was to turn them from their faith, Catholicism; however, if the Catholics refused to change their religion, they were tortured. As many of them still refused to abandon their faith, they were killed by the government. Executions sometimes took place at Nagasaki’s Mount Unzen, where some were dumped into the volcano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumi-e
The call outs to ‘That Hideous Strength’ are spot on.
Freegards
People should realize Christians are not equal citizens of this country. Expecting to be will make you very disappointed.