UNC Makes New Freshman Read Koran, Disgusting!

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[ukwildcat]

I just watched and listened to something I can't believe is happening. In a country where we have the 9th Circus court telling us we can't say "Under GOD" in the pledge of allegiance, we have state funded universities making it mandatory that all incoming Freshman read the "koran". Somebody help me understand why North Carolina would make this a mandatory study. Here we are going out of our way to take GOD out of everything possible but yet we let the islamic terrorist "peaceful" religion a mandatory read. I'm so mad I can't even write this peace coherently right now.

[Clara Lou]

1) I can tell from the synopsis of the book that only the loveliest parts of the Koran are in the book. It's like saying that reading Psalms alone is a good representation of the Bible.
2) You'll discuss the book in a small group lead by a select faculty or staff member during the Week of Welcome...
Who will be chosen to lead the discussions? Makes a big difference.

[Clara Lou]

If they're anything like they were in middle school and high school, they won't read it at all. If some prof actually works the book into class assignments, there'll be a run at the bookstore. They'll read excerpts.
"We want to show students that Carolina is about reading, thinking and writing -- not just about getting the best basketball tickets," he said.
Where do people come up with fertilizer like this? This is educator-speak. (I'm an educator. I recognize it. Let me hasten to say I never speak educator-speak. Leaves you with bad breath.)

[Tom D.]

"We want to show students that Carolina is about reading, thinking and writing -- not just about getting the best basketball tickets," he said.

It's obvious after last year's 8-20 (or so) record that no one is going to UNC to get the best basketball tickets. At least for now, the best basketball tickets in the area are about 12 miles down the road in Durham.

Of course the Dukie professors are not any less liberal than what you find in Chapel Hill.

[Doe Eyes]

A publically funded university has NO business making any religious study, or study of religion, mandatory. This is liberal, PC, feelgood BS.

The Constitution guaranties freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

[Michael2001]

This world is upside down.

I remember shortly after 9/11 one of the Christian leaders was asked how God could let this happen. The leader responded "you take God out of the schools, out of the buildings, out of everywhere, and then you want him to conveniently show up when you want him?"

They're taking out God, and as if that isn't bad enough they're replacing him with Allah. This is simply insane.

[Enlightiator]

This is a travesty. Sells book covers only the early years of Mohammed, before he turns to jihad and killing to push his religion. Michael Sells is an extreme left wing ideolog, here are just a few of his ravings:

The GOP Right, the Belgrade Lobby, and the Neo-Confederacy: Multiple Connections

Here Sells defends Islam and slams Christianity AFTER the 9/11 terrorists event:

The Interlinked Factors of a Tragedy Michael Sells Thoughts in Progress / incomplete / but still . . .

The link above includes this gem:

...but Timothy McVeigh was almost never (and never to my knowledge) called a Christian terrorist, even though he was living out a fantasy of the Christian Identity movement ...

A total lie. McVeigh was an agnostic, not part of any "Christian Identity" movements, as is well documented.

Sells defends Bosnian Muslims and bashes Christianity in general here:

Mutt America, The Religio-Racist Right, and Genocide in the Balkans

[strela]

Last week I went out and bought a copy of the Koran and started reading it.

A translation of the Koran is available free online as well, here.

I also bought The Fecderalist Papers, which I never read before. I'm saving it for the five-hour plane trip from Boston to FRiva Las Vegas.

Lord of the Rings is due out on DVD on August 6, so I'll probably be watching that on the flight from DFW to Lost Wages for the Friva.