Posted on 03/11/2015 12:23:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A small college in California has become the country’s first accredited Muslim college.
The college, Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif., received a letter last week notifying it that it has received initial accreditation to grant a single degree, a B.A .in Islamic Law and Theology. The college is a small one, with only a few dozen students. However, its founders have big ambitions, seeing the school as the first example of what could be a great network of Islamic colleges and universities in the United States.
“Five years ago, we introduced an undergraduate liberal arts program inspired by the idea of restoring the holistic education that had been offered in the great teaching centers of Islamic civilization,” President Hamza Yusuf said in a statement on the school’s website. “Zaytuna’s accreditation roots this vision in a reality recognized within American higher education. It gives our community its first accredited academic address in the United States. And we hope, God willing, that there will be more such Muslim colleges and universities to come.”
Zaytuna was first founded as Zaytuna Institute in 1996, and it was turned into a college in 2009. Its stated mission is “to educate and prepare morally committed professional, intellectual, and spiritual leaders who are grounded in the Islamic tradition and conversant with the cultural currents and critical ideas shaping modern society.”
Two of Zaytuna’s founders, Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir, are American converts to Islam who have gained national attention as advocates against violent Islamic extremism. Yusuf was even threatened by the Islamic State after he condemned the massacre of Charlie Hebdo employees in France.
While more moderate, the two are still strong advocates for spreading their faith. Shakir told The New York Times nine years ago that he hopes the United States will one day be a Muslim country governed under Islamic law, but via persuasion rather than force.
“Every Muslim who is honest would say, I would like to see America become a Muslim country,” he said then. “I think it would help people, and if I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t be a Muslim.”
““Every Muslim who is honest would say, I would like to see America become a Muslim country,”
OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!
What courses will this college offer? Beheading 101
Islam is the only group of immigrants taught from birth to hate America and subjugate or murder Christians and Jews and other infidels. These people as a group are a terrible danger to us Any loyal Washington DC administration would be exporting Muslims as quickly as possible, not importing them into our cities towns and villages.
The enemy within.
Will they be adding a basic aeronautics program and a flight school in the near future?
so where do you have them in your March Madness office pool?
Send the FBI in to ignite it......like Waco.
Their mascot is going to be a suicide bomber.
Every time their football team scores, one will blow themselves up on the sidelines.
Of course they won’t score in football very often because they are all afraid of the pigskin.
Of course they won’t score in football very often because they are all afraid of the pigskin.
Male Only ?
women and dogs need not apply
Akin to no Irish need apply
And I’d like to see Saudi Arabia as a Christian country, with a great cathedral on the holiest spot in Mecca.
I wonder how Title IX is working out for them?
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