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Wheaton is planning to fire professor who said Muslims and Christians worship the same God
The Washington Post ^ | 5 Jan 2015 | Kirkland Ann

Posted on 01/05/2016 6:35:01 PM PST by amorphous

Wheaton College, an evangelical college in Illinois, had placed associate professor of political science Larycia Hawkins on administrative leave after she made a controversial theological statement on Facebook that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. The school has now begun the process to fire her due to an "impasse," it said in a statement released on Tuesday.

Hawkins, a tenured political science professor, posted on Facebook that she would wear a hijab during the Advent season in support of Muslims.

"I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book," Hawkins wrote on Facebook. "And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: christianity; islam; muslims; wheaton
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To: elcid1970

No big deal. She’s black. Many colleges will want to hire her. They have a quota to fill.


21 posted on 01/05/2016 6:50:45 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Cicero

I’m sure the MSM will do their level best to make this headline news across the nation. Obama will then task AG Lynch with bringing charges against Wheaton administrators.


22 posted on 01/05/2016 6:50:47 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Ask any Muslim cabbie when they start proselytizing to you if we worship the same god. The answer would be a resounding “no”.


23 posted on 01/05/2016 6:53:39 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: ladyjane

She shows up for a job interview wearing that Muslimah headbag and she’s in like Flynn.


24 posted on 01/05/2016 6:53:54 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: amorphous

I suppose I understand his upset.

Muslims have always claimed to be part of the same religion as Judaism or Christianity.

If you read the Koran, you will understand that if Islam and Christianity are part of the same religion, then Islam is Satanism.

Preventing that realization might be important to the evangelical responsible for the firing.


25 posted on 01/05/2016 6:56:29 PM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: elcid1970
Don’t you dare criticize this professor or you’re a racist!

My bad. :-( followed by a bronx cheer)

26 posted on 01/05/2016 6:58:53 PM PST by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: amorphous

>> she made a controversial theological statement... that Muslims and Christians worship the same God

That’s not controversial — it’s simply WRONG.


27 posted on 01/05/2016 7:00:42 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: amorphous; flaglady47; Chigirl 26; prairiebreeze; oswegodeee; BillyBoy; Bushbacker1; Graybeard58
Du Page is a beautiful suburban conservative Republican county directly west of Chicago's Crook county. Wheaton is the county seat where I served as a county commissioner for 16 years.

Billy Graham attended Wheaton College.

My friend and mentor, the late, great conservative Cong. Henry Hyde was from Du Page county.

Other famous alumni of the college are politicians Jim McDermott, Christine Todd Whitman, Dan Coates...alsoWes Craven, Hollywood horror film director and Todd Beamer, heroic passenger on fatal 9/11 United flight 93 that crashed in the cornfield (his last words..."Let's Roll!").

Leni

28 posted on 01/05/2016 7:01:49 PM PST by MinuteGal ("We will take things away from you on behalf of the common good"...Karl Marx...oops, Hillary Clinton)
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To: GraceG
Wow~ Great analogy Grace.

It is also like, Comparing The Koran to Torah is like Comparing the Star Wars Prequels to Blade Runner!

Just, No.

No matter how much it rips it off.

29 posted on 01/05/2016 7:02:14 PM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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To: faithhopecharity
Exactly, spend 10 minutes researching the origin of Islam and there can be no doubt Allah isn't the God of Abraham.

With all due respect to Pope Francis, if he actually believes Allah and Yehovah are the same, he's very much mistaken.

30 posted on 01/05/2016 7:03:10 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Maelstrom

>> if Islam and Christianity are part of the same religion, then Islam is Satanism.

Yup. islam is a lie of Lucifer, who always craved the worship that rightfully belongs to GOD.

Lucifer demonized mohammed, and set himself up as ‘allah’.

islam is just another work of “that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world”.


31 posted on 01/05/2016 7:05:33 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: amorphous

Should have already been fired.


32 posted on 01/05/2016 7:06:47 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: ladyjane

The University of Missouri would hire her in a second.

She could join Melissa Click in the communication department.


33 posted on 01/05/2016 7:10:12 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: doc1019

Because they could trot her out as a person of color to prove they are not racist and open to diversity and are open-minded and will even hire an unattractive female, etc. It is all a win, win, win, except they forgot to vet her on basic Christianity and intelligence. She is probably a Muslim.


34 posted on 01/05/2016 7:15:52 PM PST by odawg
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To: Nervous Tick
Lucifer demonized mohammed, and set himself up as 'allah'.

Exactly.

35 posted on 01/05/2016 7:16:31 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

The “Book” is the HOLY BIBLE and NOT the KORAN!
Jesus Christ is NOT Mohammed.
Yahweh is NOT Allah.
Koran teaches DEATH. Islam is DEATH riding the PALE HORSE.
Christ is LIFE.


36 posted on 01/05/2016 7:17:14 PM PST by Twinkie (Kneel at the cross, Jesus (Yeshua) will meet you there.)
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To: odawg

probably?


37 posted on 01/05/2016 7:17:17 PM PST by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: Twinkie
Islam is DEATH riding the PALE HORSE.

My thoughts exactly, as PALE can be interpreted as Green - Islam's color.

38 posted on 01/05/2016 7:18:58 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Nachum

That poor baby. I pray she becomes an 8-year-old widow.


39 posted on 01/05/2016 7:19:04 PM PST by Heart of Georgia (We need Cruz. Simple as that.)
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To: amorphous

Agreed fully. The
biblical God and Allah are total opposites


40 posted on 01/05/2016 7:19:06 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the thatD's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant)
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