I read this in the paper this week and couldn't believe it. Apparently the "Islamic Seminar" Duke held last year was so successful they decided to create an entire studies center on Islam.
I have linked on a Militant Islam Monitor.org site that describes one of the advisory board members history. Just click on the name Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors toward the end of the article. Nothing of interest turned up on a simple Google search on the other board members. I admit I didn't take a lot of time on this though, I'm getting ready to go to bed and I'm tired but wanted to get this posted first.
MKM
Recruiting center aimed at the leftist elite.
NC Ping Worthy?
This whole idea is insane.
I'm sure they will soon be sporting some of the worst anti-American leftists around, promoting what David Horowitz has aptly termed the "unholy alliance" of western academic leftists and terror-loving Islamists. They each think that by trying to work together to bring down freedom, democracy, and evil capitalism that their own vision will ultimately win out, but of course leftists and Islamists are always busy killing each other when there are not enough evil capitalists around to bash.
I once knew well a product of the PC-environment of Duke's Trinity College, and she was the dumbest POS academic I've ever known, and that's saying a lot. Yet, she had been lauded by Duke and several other supposedly "elite" schools...... I'm certain they will do well with their new center for defense and promotion of terrorism, er, I mean Islamic studies.
Topics include "Beheading an Infidel with a Rusty Knife", "How to make Couscous in the skull of a Christian Baby", "Infiltrating the Great Satan through the University System".
I think that this is a good thing. One of our weaknesses in the current war is our inability to gather accurate and timely intelligence from the Arab/Muslim world. The more people who study Islam, Arabic, Farsi, Pashtu, and study Arab culture (and Iranian and Pakistani culture, etc), the better off that we will be in the long run.
Islamic studies at Duke.......just waht we need....NOT !!!
BTW....Have you signed Jeff Head's petition yet?
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If the Alumni have any ba-- they can stop this.
I suppose with this new degree you could at least become and imam and try to destroy Israel and the west.
I'll bet Saudi money is behind this, perhaps hidden.
IED (creative arts), Suicide Bombmaking (technical education), Suicide Bombing (physical education), Decapitation (arts/psychology/journalism), Honor Killing (home economics), etc.
Another way to bring more mohamed attas here. Only a liberal could have dreamed this up..
Our very own madrassa!
Don't be alarmed folks. All that rumbling and trembling over around Durham is not an earth quake-it's Mr Duke rolling over in his grave.
Farooq Kathwari is an Indian of Kashmiri ethnicity who made it big in the US. What only a few of us in the international relations arena know about him is that his son joined an Al-Qaeda linked jihadist group in Pakistan and was killed while fighting Indian forces in Kashmir in the late 1990s or so. He is a dubious character.
Yet another reason to hate Duke.
One step closer to the death of the West (by suicide).
You gotta see this. Needs to be on the TM thread. I'm sick.
You'll want to see this too.
Gack.
Will that endowment cover the lawsuit?