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According to Julie Roys this information is hard to find but in the fall of 2019 Cedarville University’s ‘…admitted sex abuser Anthony Moore led a group of 28 Cedarville University students and staff on a five-day trip through Alabama and Tennessee. Yet, one wouldn’t know that from visiting Cedarville’s website. Mentions of Moore’s involvement on the trip have been removed.
The trip October 16-20 was part of an annual “Civil Rights Tour,” visiting historical landmarks like the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, Tennessee.’ https://julieroys.com/anthony-moore-led-5-day-student-trip-to-al-tn-last-fall-but-mentions-of-him-removed-from-cedarville-website/?mc_cid=cdeb1e8d7e&mc_eid=b13d34ad49
Is Cedarville trying to hide something just in case?
These people are NUTS!
‘The San Antonio City Council unanimously passed a resolution Thursday denouncing bigotry, antisemitism and “hateful speech” amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The resolution, which was put forward by Mayor Ron Nirenberg, states that hate crimes, discrimination, and aggression against Asians and Jews are on the rise as the groups are blamed for the disease’s outbreak and spread…
The resolution also states that the use of terms like “Chinese Virus” or “Kung Fu virus” encourage hate crimes and incidents against Asians as well as spread misinformation.’ https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/05/08/san-antonio-city-council-bans-chinese-virus-as-hate-speech-n389159
The Scottsdale Independent ran an article concerning the ‘discriminatory’ quiz Dr. Damask gave in his World Politics course. However, before reading the article ask yourself ‘If Islam is a Religion of Peace why is there such discrimination, sometimes
death itself, against non-Muslims in Islamic nations? Here’s the article. ‘Scottsdale Community College is publicly apologizing for discriminatory questions regarding the religion of Islam appearing on a college quiz.
A student brought the discriminatory quiz questions to the attention of school officials in late April.
In a May 1 statement posted to social media, SCC Interim President Chris Haines said the student expressed concern over the wording of three questions related to Islam on the quiz.
“SCC senior leadership has reviewed the quiz questions and agrees with the student that the content was inaccurate, inappropriate, and not reflective of the inclusive nature of our college,” Ms. Haines stated. “SCC deeply apologizes to the student and to anyone in the broader community who was offended by the material. SCC Administration has addressed with the instructor the offensive nature of the quiz questions and their contradiction to the college’s values. The instructor will be apologizing to the student shortly, and the student will receive credit for the three questions. The questions will be permanently removed from any future tests.”
The statement further details SCC’s policy to not discriminate “on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability or age in our programs or activities.”
“We value inclusiveness because we all benefit by embracing a diversity of voices, viewpoints, and experiences. SCC cultivates success when individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds are respected and empowered to contribute,” Ms. Haines stated.
Screenshots of the supposed quiz questions have been posted online.
The three questions shown on social media are multiple-choice questions that were all marked incorrect.
The first is, “Terrorism is _____ in Islam.” The student chose “always forbidden” as their answer; other choices included “Justified within the context of jihad”; “justified under international law”; or “always justified.”
The second question asks where is terrorism encouraged in Islamic doctrine and law? The student chose the answer “terrorism is not encouraged in Islamic doctrine and law,” which was marked incorrect. Other answer choices were, “the Medina verses”; “the Muhammad verses”; and “the Mecca verses.”
The third question is, “Who do Islamic terrorists strive to emulate?” The student chose Ibn Tamiyyah as their answer. Other choices were the Prophet Muhammad; Saddam Hussein; or Osama bin Laden.
Scottsdale Community College’s statement did not disclose the course, but a Google search shows the quiz is a part of a World Politics course.
Since the public apology was posted online, the school’s social media pages have gained several unhappy comments.
On Facebook, user Abdelhay Ala’a states the issue is not simply about these three quiz questions.
“The quiz is based on a class that teaches Islamic Terrorism, which the slides for are available online,” Ms. Ala’a wrote.
“Removing three questions will do absolutely nothing as the class still propagates hateful information. To associate terrorism to Islam out of the exclusion of everything else, is to pose a threat to the Muslim community. Your students will grow to hate, fear and avoid us and may take a vengeful stance – all out of spreading misinformation. If you want to do your research well visit your local mosques, speak to different sheikhs, visit different communities, pick up the Quran, learn Arabic, do a thorough research.”
Other comments called for disciplinary action against the professor.
Questions from the Independent to SCC regarding any disciplinary action were not answered. Marketing and Public Relations Manager Eric Sells stated in an email, “The message and apology that Scottsdale Community College published on Friday is our statement on this matter.”’ https://www.yourvalley.net/scottsdale-independent/stories/scottsdale-community-college-apologizes-for-discriminatory-islamic-questions-on-quiz,157208
Islam wins without a gun shot!
The Religion of Peace is a misnomer. Just ask anyone who seeks to tell or teach the simple
truth concerning Islam. For instance, ‘Nicholas Damask, Ph.D., has taught political science at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona for 24 years. But now he is facing a barrage of threats, and his family, including his 9-year-old grandson and 85-year-old parents, is in hiding, while College officials are demanding that he apologize – all for the crime of speaking the truth about the motivating ideology behind the threat of Islamic jihad worldwide.
Damask, who has an MA in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, says he is “to my knowledge, the only tenured political science faculty currently teaching in Arizona to write a doctoral dissertation on terrorism.” He has taught Scottsdale Community College’s World Politics for each of the 24 years he has worked at the school.
Professor Damask’s troubles began during the current Spring semester, when a student took exception to three quiz questions. The questions were:
- Q. Who do terrorists strive to emulate? A. Mohammed
- Q. Where is terrorism encouraged in Islamic doctrine and law? A. The Medina verses [i.e., the portion of the Qur’an traditionally understood as having been revealed later in Muhammad’s prophetic career]
- Q. Terrorism is _______ in Islam. A. justified within the context of jihad.
Damask explained: “All quiz questions on each of my quizzes, including the ones in question here, are carefully sourced to the reading material. On this quiz, questions were sourced to the Qur’an, the hadiths, and the sira (biography) of Mohammed, and other reputable source material.” And indeed, the three questions reflect basic facts that are readily established by reference to Islamic texts and teachings and numerous statements of terrorists themselves.
Despite this, the student emailed Damask to complain that he was “offended” by these questions, as they were “in distaste of Islam.” Damask recounted: “Until this point, notably, the student had expressed no reservations about the course material and indeed he said he enjoyed the course.”
Damask sent two lengthy emails to the student responding to his complaints, but to no avail. A social media campaign began against Damask on the College’s Instagram account. Damask notes: “An unrelated school post about a school contest was hijacked, with supporters of the student posting angry, threatening, inflammatory and derogatory messages about the quiz, the school, and myself.”
At this point, College officials should have defended Professor Damask and the principle of free inquiry, but that would require a sane academic environment. Scottsdale Community College officials, Damask said, “stepped in to assert on a new Instagram post that the student was correct and that I was wrong – with no due process and actually no complaint even being filed – and that he would receive full credit for all the quiz questions related to Islam and terrorism.”
On May 1, Damask had a conference call with Iudicello and Eric Sells, the College’s Public Relations Marketing Manager. Damask recalls: “I was not offered to write any part of the school’s response, and there was no discussion of academic freedom or whether the College was even supportive of me to teach about Islamic terrorism. The very first point I made with them on the call (and virtually the only input I had) is that I insisted that the College’s release was to have no mention of any actions to be required to be taken by me personally, I was very clear about that.”
Predictably, Iudicello and Sells ignored that. They issued an apology to the student and to the “Islamic community,” and stated on the College’s Instagram page that Damask would be “required” to apologize to the student for the quiz questions, as the questions were “inappropriate” and “inaccurate,” and would be permanently removed from Damask’s exams.
Damask also had three phone calls with Kathleen Iudicello, Scottsdale Community College’s Dean of Instruction, who gave him a bracing introduction into today’s academic funhouse world, where if someone is offended by the truth, it’s the truth that has to be deep-sixed. “During one call with Iudicello,” Damask recounts, “she stated that my quiz questions were ‘Islamophobic,’ that before continuing to have any further class content on Islamic terrorism I would likely need to meet with an Islamic religious leader to go over the content, and that I would likely need to take a class (perhaps at Arizona State) taught by a Muslim before teaching about Islamic terrorism.”
“The irony here,” says Damask, “is that literally during this phone call, I and my wife were tossing socks and jammies and our nine-year-old grandson’s toys into a suitcase to get the hell out of the house because of the death threats made by Islamic commenters on the College’s Instagram page.”
College officials took no public notice of the fact, but the posts on its Instagram page discussing the incident had begun to fill up with threats against Damask, including these statements: “if he is still around I suggest the students take action to make sure he isn’t”; “drop the professor’s address I just wanna talk”; “what’s the instructor’s name and address, I just want to say ‘hi’”; “I wish everything bad on these kuffar” [unbelievers]; “I hope he suffers.”
According to Damask, “there are literally hundreds of posts like this. There have been death threats, at least one call for a school shooting, and at least one call to burn down the school. Again, all of these threats are still on the College’s Instagram page.” When he asked school police to shut down the social media posts in light of these threats, they told him the posts were being monitored. Yet the threats were not taken down.
On Sunday night, the school sent Damask the apology that he was to make to the offended student. It is full of the expected embarrassing groveling: “I know,” Damask is supposed to inform the student, “a simple apology may not be enough to address the harm that I caused but I want to try to make amends.” He promises the student: “I will be reviewing all of my material to ensure there’s no additional insensitivities.” (Apparently politically correct academics cannot be bothered to internalize basic rules of grammar.)
“It goes without saying,” says Damask, “that I will not apologize for anything, that it is perfectly appropriate to discuss Islam, Muhammad, the Quran, the hadiths and any other matter related to Islamic terrorism. Incidentally: there has been no official complaint, no due process for me, just a mad scramble by the school to appease Islam.”
Damask’s introduction to the new Leftist academic world in which identity trumps truth as been bitter. “The College,” he says, “has displayed an appalling lack of respect toward my rights; it has essentially engaged in defamation by terming my course material inaccurate, insensitive and that I have violated the College’s values; has denied my civil rights through waiving any and all due process procedures; violated my First Amendment rights by demanding I make an apology to the student; and violated my First Amendment and civil rights by demanding I alter my course material. Further and perhaps worse, I believe the school has effectively encouraged and permitted these threats to be made against me when the school could have immediately put a stop to them, which is tantamount to allowing mob threats against me.”
The local media is no better than the school: reports on the incident frame Damask as the villain and make no mention of the accuracy of his material and the threats he has received. The only silver lining in this entire sorry incident is that Scottsdale residents can now know that Scottsdale Community College is not in any sense an institution of higher learning, but it just another Leftist propaganda mill. As awareness of this grows, Scottsdale Community College and other community colleges, full-time colleges and universities like it will lose students and ultimately have to shut their doors. We can only hope.’ https://frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/arizona-professor-threatened-offending-islam-robert-spencer/
Where’s The Brake!?
‘At what point during any of this would the driver, perhaps recognizing that something is wrong because they’re going all over the place backwards, simply remove their foot from the gas? They wouldn’t even need to brake.
Still, kudos to the engineers at General Motors. I would have bet that a sedan could never get that kind of climb onto two other cars, and that the job would have required at least a CUV if not an actual offroad vehicle.’
https://thereligionofpeace.com/
The Religion of Peace foisted more restrictions upon us when we fly but to the Leftist Loony Islamist Marxist lovies it is still The Religion of PEACE!
What’s new? ‘The far-Left anti-Trump propaganda organ masquerading as a news source and operating under the name the Washington Post on Thursday published an inspiring op-ed entitled “As American Muslims fast this Ramadan, maybe the rest of America should consider joining in.” The Post’s articles exhorting people to keep the Lenten fast or the Yom Kippur fast have not yet been published, but I’m sure that they will be when the appropriate times for them roll around again. Won’t they?’ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/05/the-washington-post-wants-you-to-fast-for-ramadan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2020_05_07_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2020-05-07
Doubt it!
When the sun isn’t shining solar is a bummer. When the wind isn’t blowing wind turbines are a bummer. Then there is the fact that these two so-called renewable sources of energy also have a limited life span. In Casper, WY ‘Incredible photos have revealed the final resting place of massive wind turbine blades that cannot be recycled, and are instead heaped up in piles in landfills.
The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the repository of at least 870 discarded blades, and one of the few locations in the country that accepts the massive fiberglass objects. 
Built to withstand hurricane winds, the turbine blades cannot easily be crushed or recycled. About 8,000 of the blades are decommissioned in the U.S. every year.
Once they reach the end of their useful life on electricity-generating wind turbines, the blades have to be hacked up with industrial saws into pieces small enough to fit on a flat-bed trailer and hauled to a landfill that accepts them.
In addition to the landfill in Casper, landfills in Lake Mills, Iowa and Sioux Falls, South Dakota accept the discarded blades – but few other facilities have the kind of open space needed to bury the massive blades.
Once they are in the ground, the blades will remain there essentially forever – they do not degrade or break down over time.’ https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2020/05/07/not-so-green-energy-hundreds-of-non-recyclable-fiberglass-wind-turbine-blades-are-pictured-piling-up-in-landfill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NWW-News+%28National+Wind+Watch%3A+News%29
Abortion is the murder of an unborn baby. True life images of the murdered baby are horrible but real. Due to the horribleness of this true to life reality in the UK ‘District Judge Jonathan Radway has ruled that an image of abortion, showing the consequences
25 week aborted baby!
of local MP Stella Creasy’s extreme support for abortion, is ‘sickening’ and ‘horrific’ as he upheld a ban on showing the image publicly in Walthamstow, London.
Pro-life campaigner Christian Hacking, of the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform UK (CBR UK), was given a Community Protection Notice (CPN), banning him from showing large images of unborn babies in the borough of Waltham Forest. The CPN was issued after Christian took part in a CBR UK display during its #Stop Stella campaign. The campaign sought to expose the tragic reality of abortion and inform Stella Creasy’s constituents of her extreme abortion proposals.
However, while the MP mounted a public attack on members of CBR UK for supposedly ‘harassing’ her with the images, the banners were confiscated by councillors in an action that the council has now admitted was unlawful.
The judgment finds that the CPN did interfere with Christian’s article 10 rights to freedom of expression, but that this was justified because some members of the public found the images disturbing.
Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Christian now intends to appeal the decision.’ https://christianconcern.com/news/abortion-image-sickening-and-horrific-says-judge-as-ban-upheld/
whatyareckon 