Posted on 09/08/2010 6:53:24 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
We send our students to college to learn what they need to know to become good American citizens. From this knowledge we hope that they will realize useful, maybe even successful, lives. Perhaps they'll even gain personal improvement through introspection from it all. At least that's what we used to think. Apparently, these days we send kids to college to be trained to hate the U.S.A. and at least in the case of Brooklyn College to learn that today Muslims are treated as badly as the African Americans or the Japanese internees of our past.
Brooklyn college has assigned all incoming freshmen to read a book titled, "How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America," by Moustafa Bayoumi. The book is a series of vignettes imparting the immigration stories of seven Muslim Americans and their claims of the discrimination they’ve met in a post 9/11 America. Bayoumi could have written an uplifting tale of the freedoms America offers, but instead it is little else but an attack on America.
The story supposedly regales us of the lives of Muslims who have "found themselves part of the newest suspect class in the United States." Bayoumi, also a Brooklyn College English professor, absurdly claims that the Muslims in his book -- and by extension throughout America -- have gone "from simply invisible to being regarded with suspicion and even actively pursued" by the U.S. government...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
How can a college assign a book to all incoming students? You are assigned by course.
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Liberals. Need every aggrieved group they can muster to combat the new and largest aggrieved group. White people who work. They want the Muslims to join all the other hate america. victim groups that vote for Democrats.
WHY all of a sudden am I hearing about muslims, mosques, qurans....islamaphobia?? Something is going on....
UNC Chapel Hill does it.
Now we have to bend over for less than 1% of the population that hates us??? They can go to hell this is only going to make it worse.
bookmarked for later
>>Something is going on....<<
Biblical prophecy.
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