Posted on 03/29/2017 12:04:45 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
A Rollins College student who has accused his Muslim professor of religious discrimination has been clashing with his teacher since the semester started, court records show.
Areej Zufari, the professor, was so concerned about the behavior of Marshall Polston, 20, that she filed a “protection against stalking” request against him on Friday in Orange Circuit Court. Rollins has temporarily suspended Polston from school.
The injunction request includes a long email that Polston, a Christian, sent to the professor after he received a failing grade on an essay in the Middle Eastern humanities class.
“Quite frankly the grade you assigned to me exposes your true agenda which is to silence me in class.” the email said. “You’re one of the most incompetent professors I have ever seen in my life.”
In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday, Polston, an international affairs major from Orlando, said he felt like he had been religiously discriminated against and unfairly suspended. He said he disagreed with some of Zufari’s teachings on Christianity from the first day of class. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Looks like he needs to avail himself of a couple of groups around (legal types) that help protect against discrimination by educational establishments (FIRE?)
Prof. Areeje Zufari is a moslem
Some jokes just write themselves ...
School administrators at a small Florida college suspended a Christian student last week after he confronted a Muslim professor who told students that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was a hoax and that Jesus’ disciples didn’t believe that he was God.
If that “professor” is a professor, Al Gore is a PhD physicist.
Fire that ignorant slut.
Yes. Slut.
Sounds like the Professor can’t handle class discussions, or exchange of opinions. It’s easy to claim a student disrupted a class, even if it’s to try to get a discussion of opposing views going. I’d like to know how many other students she gave failing grades to, and what her reasons were. I didn’t see where she had responded to his complaint about the grade, or explained why she gave him that mark. If he wasn’t satisfied, he could take it higher to the Department Administrator, and his school Advisor. They might as well do something to earn their paychecks.
more from the same article:
During a separate discussion in class, this time on the application of Sharia law, Polston told the College Fix that a male Muslim student made chilling comments, including that gay people and adulterers should be beheaded in accordance with Muslim law.
“I spoke out to the professor about … the decapitation comments made by the student,” Polston told the Fix. “The statement by the conservative Muslim student met such fear by some that one of the students reported it to the FBI.
“The situation was surreal. We’ve already had one too many attacks in Orlando and as an avid traveler, I realized this was the perfect example of ‘see something, say something,’ ” he explained.
After that, Polston said Zufari reported him to the school’s “dean of safety” and canceled class claiming Polston made her feel “unsafe.” He was subsequently called to the dean’s office to discuss his actions, which Polston said the dean claimed were making campus “unsafe.”
“They made it clear that they had not gotten a report about what the student said, and were more concerned about the danger I was causing to the campus. What danger? A difference of opinion in a college classroom is nothing out of the ordinary and certainly not dangerous,” Polston told the Post. “The bad grade was upsetting, but they were literally refusing to acknowledge the dangers posed by someone who advocated chopping off body parts on campus.”
“Student ______ stated to me that she looked out the back glass door of the classroom and saw Mr. Polston staring into the room. He briefly stopped then proceeded on his way. Campus safety was immediately notified and responded at 19:36 hours. A search was conducted but Mr. Polston was not found. Ms. Zufari’s students were upset and did not feel comfortable being in the class. Ms. Zufari dismissed her class early at 20:07 hours.”
Polston has completely refuted these claims, however, offering video footage of his whereabouts — at a restaurant over a half-hour away from the school.
Affirmative Action strikes again.
Who does this Infidel think he is?
“Polston, an international affairs major...”
My advice to him is to enroll in a trade school and start making money instead of piling up a mountain of debt.
Rollins Professor Defended Anti-Semitism, Aided Lover In Radicalizing Children
Middle Eastern & Muslim Humanities Professor Areej Zufari’s past includes allegations of radicalizing her lover’s two sons, fundraising for a man connected to the WTC bombing in 1993, and defending “Death To All Jews” statements.
And is therefore a liar and a tyrant.
Zufari is with the Islamic Society Of Central Florida
Islamic Center of Central Florida imam is Muhammad Musri
Mursi hosted a fundraiser in Orlando for the terrorist group Hamas in June 2009
The college campus is supposed to be a learning environment, in which students are learners and faculty are professionals. The asymmetry should be obvious. The responsibility for decorum is more on the member of the faculty than on the student, although both are subject to codes of conduct.
The grading of the student’s examination should withstand judgment by other faculty in a blind test.
The dean’s assertion that some presumption is due to the professor in the humanities is questionable. Surveys indicate that faculties are overwhelmingly biased. Faculties are therefore incapable of policing themselves. They are blind to their prejudice because they are cocooned in communities composed almost entirely of similarly prejudiced people.
This prejudice is especially pronounced in certain disciplines. While 30-to-1 is the usual ratio of left to right faculty (judging from voter registrations where this is available), certain disciplines are hothouses of ideologues. Women’s studies, for example.
The Muslim religion condones blasphemy laws and defines freedom of speech in a way that precludes criticism of Islam. No presumption should attached to the ability of Muslims to grade members of other faiths fairly. Sorry. When you, as a matter of faith, deny freedom of expression in the criticism of religion, you cannot be trusted with grading members of other religions about Islam. In the case of this particular professor, what does the record show with regard to criticism of Islam? Does the professor reflect appreciation of such criticism in her writings? Does she herself criticize Islam?
If she is a liberal or enlightened Muslim, then fine, she can be trusted to teach a course that involves grading students who criticize Islam. But, if she is a conventional Muslim, sorry, she cannot be so trusted. Let her teach mathematics.
Christianity is (increasingly since the Enlightenment) a self-critical religion. Even the Catholics accepted the legitimacy of freedom of religion in the Second Vatican Council, and few majority Catholic countries nowadays have blasphemy laws. I don’t think any majority Protestant countries have. All majority Muslims have them and they are periodically enforced as in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
>>correction, a growing number of majority Christian countries are adopting blasphemy laws; i.e., the Sharia law that makes criticism of Islam a crime.
Contrast the interpretation of scripture. We say the Bible was written by men inspired by God. They say the Koran is the literal word of God.
We recognize that the Old Testament is written in long dead language and its original meaning subject to debate, and its application to today subject to interpretation. Regarding the New Testament, it is recognized that it was written in the Greek of that day by men for whom Greek was a second language (or else was translated from original sources in the language of the writers of those original sources). The Koran, it is held as matter of doctrine, is literally true equally today as from the beginning of time, and that the Arabic of today is the same as the Arabic of 700 AD. (I suppose this means God miraculously intervenes to keep Arabic language unchanged since 700 AD.)
Not to write a dissertation, I will simply mention one more thing. We understand that all the heroes of the Bible, save Jesus, are flawed. And, with regard to Jesus, he is held to be special and not necessarily an example for others to follow. For example, Jesus did not marry. This did not establish celibacy as the ideal but as a choice. In contrast, Mohammed is such that scrips and scraps put together of his life are, as matters of doctrine, to be followed by Muslims.
The proof of the extreme level of inherency of Islam is that each Muslim, just about, considers every other Muslim, just about, to be an apostate. Each one knows what Islam truly is, and the fact that others have their own opinion, is apostasy and justification of war.
To be sure, pre-Enlightenment Christianity was similar. There were wars over doctrine in the past. But, this student is, today, in a class being taught by a Muslim. He is not in a pre-Enlightenment Christian school disagreeing with the Catholic Church on the matter of indulgences.
The last two paragraphs are ridiculous.
No, pre-Enlightenment Christianity was not similar. Each Christian, just about, did not consider every other Christian, just about, to be an apostate.
>>Pre-Enlightment Christianity did not share with contemporary Islam blasphemy laws.
fake
The 1st Amendment did not disestablish religion in the United States. It did not end blasphemy laws. Rather, the 1st Amendment reserved the establishment of religion to the states. It prevented the Congress from interfering with the establishment of religion by the states.
Nevertheless, the spirit of the Revolution was strong. One state after another joined Pennsylvania and Rhode Island as the other tolerant states. Laws against blasphemy were taken off the books. The last person in the country to be jailed for blasphemy law was in 1838. From time to time, there have since been attempts to fine blasphemers, but these have - it seems - come to conclusion. Check it out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_States#Prosecutions_for_blasphemy
I say, “it seems” because of the agitation for laws making “Islamophobia” a crime.
Going back to Europe, prior to the Enlightenment, there were religious wars. Anabaptists, Quakers, Dissenters, Catholics, etc., were prosecuted, even tortured.
Among the martyrs of the faith were Thomas More, Catholic, by the Church of England, and French Huguenots by the Catholic Church. In central Europe, the Lutherans, Catholics and Calvinists variously fell upon each other, and then all three joined together to suppress the Anabaptists. (Actually, some Anabaptists, being violent, needed to be suppressed.)
My goodness, Leonardo de Vinci was subjected to house arrest for claiming that there were moons revolving around Jupiter. (Not that this contradicted the Bible. It contradicted the Scholastic argument deducing the laws of physics from logic only and disregarding observation).
We have come a long way to gain our religious liberty. The idea that we would put up with nonsense from the Koran because Muslims believe it is the literal word of God makes a mockery of the blood of the martyrs.
Hebrew is "long dead"? That's news to me.
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