Posted on 01/09/2014 6:37:07 AM PST by Loyalist
After refusing to honour a male student’s request to be separated from his female classmates for religious reasons, a York University professor has found himself at odds with administrators who assert he broke their “obligation to accommodate.”
“It represents a great leap backwards,” said sociology professor J. Paul Grayson. “When I was a student, you couldn’t have gotten away with that — it wouldn’t even have been considered.”
The issue arose last September in the opening days of SOCI 2030, an online course taught by Mr. Grayson.
A student, who remains nameless due to privacy reasons, asked to be counted out of a scheduled group project due to the course’s heavy preponderance of female students.
“One of the main reasons that I have chosen internet courses to complete my BA is due to my firm religious beliefs, and part of that is the intermingling between men and women,” he wrote, adding “it will not be possible for me to meet in public with a group of women (the majority of my group) to complete some of these tasks.”
The unusual request immediately troubled the professor. In a 12-page paper documenting the episode, he expressed his worry about becoming an “accessory to sexism” and, in a letter to the campus’ Centre for Human Rights, declared “I doubt that we would sanction a student refusing, for religious reasons, to interact with Blacks in classes even though Biblical justification could be found.”
Throughout, the student never revealed his religion, prompting Mr. Grayson to guess that he followed either Islam or Orthodox Judaism.
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The university bent over backwards for this request, and York University is known up here as a hotbed of anti-Israel, if not outright anti-Semitic sentiment, so three guesses...
If it's an internet course ... where are all of these females ?
In his dorm room ?
He (the student) should grace us with an exit back to the s_hole country from which he originated.
wow, how weird, but a nice try.
I would prefer a classroom of women, much better to look at than men.
A student, who remains nameless due to privacy reasons, asked to be counted out of a scheduled group project due to the course’s heavy preponderance of female students.So for an online course, the professor was requiring a group project that included face to face meetings and interaction, and the student was asking for accommodation to not participate in this aspect of the project. Does that clear up your confusion.“One of the main reasons that I have chosen internet courses to complete my BA is due to my firm religious beliefs, and part of that is the intermingling between men and women,” he wrote, adding “it will not be possible for me to meet in public with a group of women (the majority of my group) to complete some of these tasks.”
Universities have been doing everything possible to destroy moral strictures - from co-ed dorms and encouraging sexual activity.
If someone want to live a life of sexual purity, why should that cause such trauma>
Who said anything about sex, it’s a classroom project for christ sake.
Make them wear burkas.... problem solved.
What happen to the shibboleth of the left, “separation of church and state”.
Christians are not allowed to show, speak, or indicate in any way that they are Christians, but others can not only share their religion, they must be accommodated at the expense of all others.
How long before we all fall under Sharia law?
yup .. thanx
Probabilities of what the fellow is (IMO):
90% ==> Mohammedan
9% ==> Orthodox Jew
1% ==> Something else totally out of left field.
“When I was a student, you couldn’t have gotten away with that — it wouldn’t even have been considered.”
Thats because when he was a student a muzzie lovin commie wasn’t sitting in the White House.
The professor ran the student’s initial memo past a Judaic scholar and two Islamic scholars, all of whom were puzzled by the request.
The Judaic scholar found no problem with an Orthodox Jew attending a co-ed group session. One of the Islamic scholars, in turn, declared simply, “unless he is asked to be physical with a female student, which I assume he isn’t, there is absolutely no justification for not interacting with females in public space.”
Muzzie radical.
Can this person perhaps give chapter and verse for where exactly this justification can be found or is he just talking out of his forth point?
Um, the article is about an incident at a university in Canada.
WADR, he may be an Orthodox Jew with roots many generations in the U.S.
As posted above, the Jewish scholar says this would have been perfectly permissible.
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