Posted on 05/18/2009 10:44:17 AM PDT by gitmogrunt
A group of American Muslims, led by two prominent scholars, is moving closer to fulfilling a vision of founding the first four-year accredited Islamic college in the United States, what some are calling a "Muslim Georgetown."
Advisers to the project have scheduled a June vote to decide whether the proposed Zaytuna College can open in the fall of next year, a major step toward developing the faith in America.
Imam Zaid Shakir and Sheik Hamza Yusuf of California have spent years planning the school, which will offer a liberal arts education and training in Islamic scholarship. Shakir, a California native, sees the school in the tradition of other religious groups that formed universities to educate leaders and carve a space in the mainstream of American life.
"As a faith community our needs aren't any different than the needs of any other faith community," Shakir told the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals, as he sought donations at a recent conference near Princeton, N.J. "As Muslims, we need to develop institutions to allow us to perpetuate our values
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They don’t belong here.
Jihad and the Devil of the West 1000
Elementary Bombmaking 1001
Ethics of Bombmaking and Ritual Suicide 1002
Concealment of Suicide Bombs and Evading Security 1003
America, the Devil and Why you should blow your ass up 1004
Senior Project 1006 (You build it)
Senior Project 1007 (You Deploy it)
Are there really 72 Virgins? (or what do you do after you blow your ass up).
PREDICTION: Their frat parties will well & truly suck.
Somebody, I cannot remember who once described an Islamic Scholar as someone with 2 books on their bookshelf.
How special. They better build it before we get hit again or some of the sheeple will notice...
Trying to find something good in this:
At least they won’t teach courses like Lesbianism 101, Homosexuality 102, Paganism 103.
Many millions of people agree with you, but unless they grow spines, this college will only be the beginning of the Muslim attempt to ultimately dominate American society.
Islam has no place in mainstream American life.
This must be in response to all those Western Christian universities WE have in Buttcrakistan.
one university is not mainstream american life. in case you have forgotten our constitution guarantees our right to religious freedom. did you expect this to only apply to the religion you agree with?
he’s a poser all right, got the masses who are asses fooled though
Soon to be a run-down rat-hole of idiotic bigoted suicidal tendincies.
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