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Student Says Mention of 'Prayer' Enrages Professor
Agape Press ^ | October 17, 2006 | Jim Brown

Posted on 10/18/2006 4:29:18 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski

(AgapePress) - "For Christ and Humanity." That's the motto of Olivet College in Michigan, where a Christian student says he was punished by one of his professors for making a reference to God in the classroom.

Olivet College freshman Jeremiah Bannister, an aspiring journalist, claims he was recently the target of anti-Christian bigotry and grade retaliation in his "Writing and Rhetoric" class. Bannister says Professor Austin Jackson, a Sunni Muslim, took exception to an essay he and another student had written opposing affirmative action and slavery reparations.

The freshman shares that when he was asked by the professor to voice his personal opinion on what African-Americans can do to overcome historical prejudice, one of his suggestions was prayer -- a response that upset the educator.

"He was very, very angry about it," says Bannister, "[and] said that invoking God in class was unacceptable; that it was anti-intellectual, that it was belligerent, and [that] it was completely unacceptable in his classroom. And he actually docked us 10 points from our grade because I invoked God in my opinion of what could be done."

According to Bannister, he was instructed to never mention anything about God or Jesus in the classroom. He says he has talked to the school about the situation.

"I guess there were numerous standards of the school handbook policy that were broken by the professor in doing what he did, but they are going to be addressing the problem," says the student, who suspects he may be asked represent other Christian students before school officials.

"I may also have to speak before the administration of the school on the issue of the treatment of Christians and the Christian worldview on campus, and the general feeling amongst many Christian students that we are being marginalized and even oppressed in many areas and treated badly."

Jackson, who is a doctoral student in the African American and African Studies Program as well as a full-time professor at Michigan State University, is an open proponent of communism.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristian; christophobia; communistprofessor; diversity; islam; muslims; sunnimuslim; theophobia; tolerance
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To: massgopguy
I recall a story about a National Guardsman in a Journalism class. The professor was an Atheist who stood in front of the class and tasked God to prove his existance by striking him down. He stood, eyes closed, arms in the air defying God. So the NG guy got up a drilled him in the nose knocking him down. He looked down at the professor and said; "God told me to do that".

LOL - Great story.

81 posted on 10/18/2006 7:54:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Death Cult Alert: Every Muslim hero since Mohammed, has been a mass murderer.)
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To: bennyjakobowski

If this unfortunate student had mentioned Allah or Islam,he would have been congratulated!


82 posted on 10/18/2006 8:04:18 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: bennyjakobowski

What an ignorant Professor. Why is this college named "Olivet?" Thought that was a Mt. in the Bible.


83 posted on 10/18/2006 8:05:59 AM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: bennyjakobowski

so this professor views religion as anti intelectual and his secular priesthood as intelectual.


84 posted on 10/18/2006 8:09:13 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: stevie_d_64

A student has to kiss (figuratively of course) the professor's butt, agree with everything the moron says and act like he/she is correct ALL the time. Some professors are prime examples of narcissism. They are so full of themselves that they reek.


85 posted on 10/18/2006 8:09:57 AM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: humblegunner
Mustafa Shi'it Fubrens

He was bestowed his muslim name and faith by another prisoner he befriended while passing the soap in the shower.

86 posted on 10/18/2006 8:16:00 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski (Why in Hell should I have to Press 1 for English?)
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To: the invisib1e hand

They've pwn3d Michigan.


87 posted on 10/18/2006 8:19:45 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Face it, every empire comes to an end, and ours is on the down hill slope.)
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To: Michael Goldsberry

While working as a armed security guard many years ago I had the occasion to eject from the premises a cross-dressing neo nazi . Talk about a seriously confused individual.


88 posted on 10/18/2006 10:06:20 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: bennyjakobowski

Communist Moslem! AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!!!


89 posted on 10/18/2006 11:11:25 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Closer to the Asian American and Asia Studies Dept.


90 posted on 10/18/2006 11:13:21 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: bennyjakobowski
Professor Austin Jackson, a Sunni Muslim, ... Jackson... is an open proponent of communism.

I didn't think Communists could believe in religion, opiate of the masses and all that...Their standards sure are slipping.

91 posted on 10/18/2006 11:58:19 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: massgopguy

Priceless!!!

Post of the day award!


92 posted on 10/18/2006 12:03:00 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: madison10

This is why I feel my time would be wasted going back to school for anything more that it could possibly offer...

I am so far to the right, that I think I would need heavy medications to get through some of the classes without destroying academia...


93 posted on 10/18/2006 12:05:29 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: Ready4Freddy

Ooh! That's interesting. Might not be the first time a resume's been fabricated.....Keep digging.


94 posted on 10/18/2006 12:21:20 PM PDT by BoneHead
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To: stevie_d_64
This is why I feel my time would be wasted going back to school for anything more that it could possibly offer...

I don't believe business classes would have the ideological problems, especially if you took an online credit class. (I love mine and will take more) Or take an online class from a Christian or private college. Online does NOT mean cheaper, but it sure is more convenient and you'd save on gas PLUS YOU would get to pick where you wanted to go.

There are ways to avoid the Liberal cesspools. :)

95 posted on 10/18/2006 12:22:19 PM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: stevie_d_64

Correction: Do your RESEARCH before signing up for a class at a private college. Apparently that is no guarantee of good education.


96 posted on 10/18/2006 12:23:23 PM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: kinoxi

So is it news that US universities are full of communist indocrinators and black separatists? Any connection to the fact that US graduates don't know very much and aren't very much use in the business world. That makes them even angrier.


97 posted on 10/18/2006 12:31:15 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Leftist policies don't work. They hurt those they pretend to help.)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Does the phony, contrived and plagerized islam qualify as a religion? In islam the prophet is worshipped and his example of perversion followed.


98 posted on 10/19/2006 4:51:12 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski (Why in Hell should I have to Press 1 for English?)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!!!

The sound gurgling from the bloody throat of an infidel whose head is being sawed off by a dull blade.

Or, it could be the refrain of the Viking Kitties as they head for that Western shore.

99 posted on 10/19/2006 4:54:13 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski (Why in Hell should I have to Press 1 for English?)
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