Posted on 03/27/2017 2:42:45 PM PDT by TBP
A student from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida claims he was suspended for challenging his Muslim professor’s anti-Christian assertions, including her assertion that Jesus’ crucifixion never occurred.
Marshall Polston, 20, is claiming that his Middle Eastern Humanities professor also told students that Jesus’ disciples “did not believe he was God.”
Polston, a self-described Christian who has toured the Middle East, says he is familiar with the Muslim culture.
“Honestly, it reminded me of some of the more radical groups I researched when abroad,” Polston told the Central Florida Post when asked about his professor’s comments.
“Whether religious or not, I believe even those with limited knowledge of Christianity can agree that according to the text, Jesus was crucified and his followers did believe he was divine… that he was ‘God,'” he said.
“Regardless, to assert the contrary as academic fact is not supported by the evidence,” he added.
Polston said he stands behind his assertions in the Post article, adding that he is very upset that he was suspended for voicing his opinion.
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“Our university should be a place where free-speech flashes and ideas can be spoken of without punishment or fear of retribution,” Polston said.
“In my case it was the total opposite. … I came forward with the story because I know so many other students like me suffer under today’s liberal academic elite.”
The Central Florida Post reports that it tried several times speak with officials from Rollins College and Professor Zufari, but never received any comment back.
Polston claims that after he challenged professor Zufari’s assertions about Jesus and his disciples, professor Zufari filed a complaint with a campus dean, claiming he made her feel “unsafe.”
Following the complaint, Polston received a 52 percent grade on a major essay from the same professor.
“I was upset, understandably. I’ve never gotten anything less than straight A’s, so I was really interested in figuring out how to possibly improve or at least understand the grade,” Polston told the Post.
“I spoke out to the professor about the grade and subsequently the decapitation comments made by the student,” Polston said.
“The statement by the conservative Muslim student met such fear by some that one of the students reported it to the FBI. Later, I was reported by the professor to the dean of campus safety. 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.'”
Zufari took the situation much further by posting on the ACLU Florida Facebook page:
“An unnamed student is making my life hell this semester. This one is spewing hatred at me, derailing class, and just sent me a hateful email threatening me…I want to know if there is a way to hold the individual responsible for his harassment and hate speech. Any ideas? Thank you!”
This is not the first time Rollins College has acted acted unfavorably against Christian students.
In 2013, the Orlando Sentinel reported that “college officials kicked a Christian group off of campus for their conservative beliefs and threatened to pull funding from Christian student groups that would not allow non-Christian students to be in the club’s leadership.”
Later that year, Fox News reported that students were told that they could not hold private Bible studies in their dorm rooms.
It seems that the Left loves free speech until you say or do something they do not agree with.
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Free Speech for me, but not for thee...................
Rollins is an EXTREMELY liberal college with high tuitions paid for by mostly rich liberal parents.
Rollins College is the “intellectual” college of the Orlando area. It is also supposedly a Christian college, but that went by the boards a long time ago, when the Episcopal church left Christianity for universalist situation-ethics heresy.
If Professor Zufari is fired he can always get a job teaching religion at Notre Dame.
Middle Eastern Humanities? Is there any humanity in the M.E.?
Perhaps the correct answer is “Jesus was crossified” since he died on the cross, using English.” (sarcasm to the idiots who suspended the student who defended our Saviour.)
The textbook is a ream of unused copy paper.
Red StTe...aren’t they the ones who banned President Trump...can’t stand them.
The longer we, as a group, take to fight back the worse it’s going to get.
Already there’s an unwritten license to discriminate, mock, and otherwise persecute Christians in this country.
Like all tyranny, it won’t stop until it is stopped.
Exactly right.
They love free speech for themselves but not others.
It’s time for the Muslims to leave the United States and if the leftists don’t like it then they need to get out too. Maybe they can all celebrate diversity in some wonderful egalitarian Utopia like, say, Libya.
Muslims believe in Jesus Christ, They don’t believe he is the son of God, but they do believe he is a Prophet. That being said, they do acknowledge he was Crucified for his beliefs. Why would this Muslim Professor take this position? It reminds me of those liberals who get ordained so they can claim to be Christian while espousing their leftist ideology.
You didn’t believe it when I said the left wants to eliminate Christianity and replace it with i*slam.
Your other points are correct (Muslims believe the Lord Jesus Christ was a prophet, and was virgin born of Mary), however - as I understand it - they do not believe He was crucified, died, was buried, and rose the third day. They profess to believe the Gospels - but yet they deny the Scriptures.
They claim 'someone' took the Lord's place at Calvary (e.g., Barabbas, Simon of Cyrene, Judas, etc) - and God just 'beamed' the Lord Jesus up to Heaven.
Peter Hammond has a good audio series on Islam - if you care to spend a couple of hours listening to his material. I thought it was pretty instructive.
Muslim Evangelism Workshop - Peter Hammond
The bottom two talks: Comparing the Quran with the Bible, and Understand the Challenge of Islam, were pretty good.
bkmk
Why would this young person think there is freedom of speech and expression at Rollins College? What could have given him that idea?
...They don’t believe he is the son of God, but they do believe he is a Prophet...
They don’t believe he rose on the 3rd day. They believe he remains dead. Islam is a bastardization of the New Testament, the Old testament, the Torah, and the Talmud. Moehamhead twisted it all for self aggrandment and the “worship of todays Baal, Lucifer, that old serpent...allah.
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