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.
LOL - Great story.
If this unfortunate student had mentioned Allah or Islam,he would have been congratulated!
What an ignorant Professor. Why is this college named "Olivet?" Thought that was a Mt. in the Bible.
so this professor views religion as anti intelectual and his secular priesthood as intelectual.
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.
He was bestowed his muslim name and faith by another prisoner he befriended while passing the soap in the shower.
They've pwn3d Michigan.
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.
Communist Moslem! AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Closer to the Asian American and Asia Studies Dept.
I didn't think Communists could believe in religion, opiate of the masses and all that...Their standards sure are slipping.
Priceless!!!
Post of the day award!
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...
Ooh! That's interesting. Might not be the first time a resume's been fabricated.....Keep digging.
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. :)
Correction: Do your RESEARCH before signing up for a class at a private college. Apparently that is no guarantee of good education.
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.
Does the phony, contrived and plagerized islam qualify as a religion? In islam the prophet is worshipped and his example of perversion followed.
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.
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