Muslim Mythology-Islamic delusions receive full blessing on college campuses

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 20, 2005 | Joel Mowbray

[SJackson]

Facts are stubborn things—except when you create your own.

When I was asked about the “Jenin Massacre” by a Muslim student during an event at Old Dominion last week, it became clear we were coming from two very different perspectives: reality vs. mythology.

There was no “Jenin Massacre.” Period. The only “massacre” that took place at Jenin was that of the truth.

Palestinians, long masters of media manipulation, went by the hundreds to foreign media—whom Israel kept outside of the armed conflict—to claim that over 500 innocents had been slaughtered. The man at the front of the prevarication parade was longtime Arafat sidekick Saeb Erekat, giving breathless accounts in interviews with CNN and other outlets.

The international media was in a tizzy, and most of the world fell for the lie. Only after the smoke had cleared and outsiders allowed in did the truth come out.

56 Palestinians had died, but 47 of them were armed. The civilian casualties were at a minimum because Israeli soldiers went door-to-door and put their own lives at risk. Their caution cost 23 young Israelis their lives.

Even the United Nations—which had initially condemned the “massacre”—eventually determined that there had been no massacre. Yet to this day, Jenin is a rallying cry for Muslims around the world, particularly on college campuses in the United States. And Old Dominion is no different.

When I explained that there had been no massacre, some of the Muslim students expressed palpable disbelief, others snickered. Belief in the mythology of Jenin was not limited to that one student.

The student who asked the question did engage me in conversation afterward, and it was readily apparent that he is bright, even hyper-articulate. He could run circles around two-thirds of the successful people inside the beltway. Headed for law school in the fall, he seems destined to be a leader. But that is what’s most troubling.

How could someone so obviously intelligent swallow whole such a widely-discredited fabrication? Has he intellectually cocooned himself and refused to read anything counter to his worldview? Maybe the better question is: has any professor or advisor attempted to challenge his views, forcing him to rethink what he believes?

Youth lends itself to stridency and naïveté, making campuses fertile fields for hatemongers and paranoia peddlers, providing an ideal home to delusional Muslim mythology. And political correctness has served as ignorance’s accomplice.

With academia’s moral relativism, no culture or belief system (aside from that of conservatives) can, or is allowed to, be criticized. Muslim students are encouraged to hold “different” views, even if they differ from established fact. Telling them otherwise can be a terminal mistake. Just ask Thomas Klocek.

After 14 years of continuous service as a part-time adjunct professor, DePaul University in Chicago indefinitely suspended Klocek without pay based on a single incident. His crime? He was accused of insulting Muslim students. Explaining the suspension, Dean Susanne Dumbleton wrote in a letter to the school paper that Klocek had “demean[ed] the ideas” and “freedom” of the Muslim students and “dishonored” their “perspective.”

DePaul counts among its faculty a Holocaust denier and a well-known Islamist, yet both are still gainfully employed. Neither made the mistake of insulting Muslim students.

Academia’s abdication of its responsibility means that otherwise bright and capable Muslim students will not be afforded the opportunity—as many of us have been blessed to have—to reevaluate and reassess their belief systems. This is particularly ominous if the current Muslim leadership is any indication of what the future holds.

As the twin towers were burning on September 11, Salam al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, theorized that the culprit was—who else—the Jews. On a Los Angeles radio show, he said, “If we’re going to look at suspects, we should look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list.”

He had no historical or factual basis to support his hypothesis. Islamic terrorism had been on the rise for years at that point, and the Palestinian intifada had already showcased almost a year of nonstop Islamic terrorism, yet al-Mariyati instead chose to hatch a crackpot conspiracy theory—one that still is very much alive in mosques across America.

The most common myth perpetuated by America’s Muslim leaders—and sadly, much of the Left—is that Israel is the source of the world’s problems. History says otherwise.

Wahhabism started in Saudi Arabia two centuries before the creation of the Jewish state, and the granddaddy of all modern-day terrorists, Muslim Brotherhood, also got the jump on Israel, launching more than two decades earlier. Yet the doctrine of the Muslim leadership is that creating a Palestinian state will eliminate terrorism.

But you can’t fight their fiction with facts. Because to them, their fiction is fact. The saddest fact, though, is that academia’s moral relativism dictates that there is no distinction.

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Joel Mowbray is author of Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America’s Security.

[SJackson]

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[Tempestuous]

"The most common myth perpetuated by America’s Muslim leaders—and sadly, much of the Left—is that Israel is the source of the world’s problems. History says otherwise."

Muslims are good at promulgating myths, how else to you explain why a billion people believing that Allah wants Muslims to kill everyone that disagree with him and heaven is an men’s club with an open bar and 72 everlasting virgin lap dancers?

[blackdog]

Deception and lies are a tool to be used against non believers according to Islam. It is a fine practice as long as it's being used to propegate their faith according to their rag they read. They really don't care what is a lie or what is a truth by western standards. The only truth is Islam(to them), so to perpetuate a falsehood which serves their cause is not only accepted but required.

[mrsmith]

"...DePaul University in Chicago indefinitely suspended Klocek without pay based on a single incident. His crime? He was accused of insulting Muslim students. Explaining the suspension, Dean Susanne Dumbleton wrote in a letter to the school paper that Klocek had “demean[ed] the ideas” and “freedom” of the Muslim students and “dishonored” their “perspective.” "

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1370168/posts
"Denise Mattson, a spokeswoman for DePaul, described the dispute in a different way. She said that the students noticed Klocek before he stopped by their table, walking back and forth and “acting in an odd way.” Once he arrived at the table, he was ‘belligerent” and “menacing,” Mattson said, shaking and pointing his finger very close to students’ faces. He was so threatening that other students who were present “ran to get help from staff, saying that students were being attacked by a professor.” Mattson said no physical attack took place, and that the closest anything came to it was when Klocek threw some of the materials he picked up back at the students. And she said that Klocek returned to the activities fair even after university officials asked him to leave. "

"How could someone so obviously intelligent swallow whole such a widely-discredited fabrication? Has he intellectually cocooned himself and refused to read anything counter to his worldview? ...you can’t fight their fiction with facts. Because to them, their fiction is fact."

Yeah, maybe he just gets his info from places like FrontPageMagazine?

[A. Pole]

Where Israel was when the West and NATO blamed and bombed Serbs for Racak "massacre"? (Milosevic is still in Hague and one after another true Serbian leader is being delivered to this show trial tribunal and kept in the dungeon).

[Gritty]

Muslims believe myths? Why should anybody find this so passingly strange?

Their entire falsse religion is based on the myth Mohammad is the Prophet of God - and the truth goes downhill from there!

[Little Ray]

If yer gonna get the bad press, ya might as well commit the crime - next time flatten the "refugee camp" and kill 'em all.

[Publius6961]

56 Palestinians had died, but 47 of them were armed. The civilian casualties were at a minimum because Israeli soldiers went door-to-door and put their own lives at risk. Their caution cost 23 young Israelis their lives.

In other words, the Israelis lost 23-9.

If that suggests that armed murderers who kill children in their sleep or on school buses don't count, that is exactly my position.

Myth, indeed!

[Piquaboy]

The only good Muslim is a dead one! I read that in my handbook.

[dennisw]

Best I can tell is Muhammad was an epileptic who received visions from above while in a seizure, while in a hallucinatory state. He would go out to the cold nigh time Arabian desert to get these "divine revelations" that he fobbed off on the illiterate Arabs of the time

[Valin]

Dumbleton wrote in a letter to the school paper that Klocek had “demean[ed] the ideas” and “freedom” of the Muslim students and “dishonored” their “perspective.”

And here we see the problem. Everyone has one (a perspective), but not everyones "perspective" jibs with reality.

[Valin]

The only good Muslim is a dead one!

Thank God you're not in any position of power.

[Gritty]

Best I can tell is Muhammad was an epileptic who received visions from above while in a seizure...

You're being way too kind to Mo the Murderer. If anything, he received his visions "from below".

[AppyPappy]

He felt the Arab world needed their own religion based on God so he created Islam. Otherwise, the Arabs would have maintained the various pagan religions that kept them separated. After he created Islam, they all got together and decided to take over the world.

You have to admit, it was a brilliant military strategy.

[dennisw]

Mo invented his mystical Allah to give him street credibility with the benighted Arabs of his time. Who were pagan idolaters. Matter of fact, Allah is a feet of clay idol plucked from the pagan Arab pantheon and elevated above other gods for Muhammad's own venal purposes

[TXnMA]

And political correctness has served as ignorance’s accomplice.

Truer words were never written!

[Stultis]

(Milosevic is still in Hague and one after another true Serbian leader is being delivered to this show trial tribunal and kept in the dungeon).

Ugh! Woe be to Serbia if their "true leaders" are -- like Delusivic -- corrupt, autocratic communists; not to mention inept strategists who fight no less than four losing wars in sequence!

[Tolik]

Joel Mowbray:

...The student who asked the question did engage me in conversation afterward, and it was readily apparent that he is bright, even hyper-articulate.  He could run circles around two-thirds of the successful people inside the beltway.  Headed for law school in the fall, he seems destined to be a leader.  But that is what’s most troubling.

How could someone so obviously intelligent swallow whole such a widely-discredited fabrication?  Has he intellectually cocooned himself and refused to read anything counter to his worldview?  Maybe the better question is: has any professor or advisor attempted to challenge his views, forcing him to rethink what he believes?...Academia’s abdication of its responsibility means that otherwise bright and capable Muslim students will not be afforded the opportunity—as many of us have been blessed to have—to reevaluate and reassess their belief systems.  This is particularly ominous if the current Muslim leadership is any indication of what the future holds.

.....The most common myth perpetuated by America’s Muslim leaders—and sadly, much of the Left—is that Israel is the source of the world’s problems. History says otherwise.

Wahhabism started in Saudi Arabia two centuries before the creation of the Jewish state, and the granddaddy of all modern-day terrorists, Muslim Brotherhood, also got the jump on Israel, launching more than two decades earlier. Yet the doctrine of the Muslim leadership is that creating a Palestinian state will eliminate terrorism.

But you can’t fight their fiction with facts. Because to them, their fiction is fact. The saddest fact, though, is that academia’s moral relativism dictates that there is no distinction.

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