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Students' extremist views pushed professor out of U of C


Religion | 207800 hits | Jun 26 4:29 pm | Posted by: N_Fiddledog
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A former professor at the University of Calgary says he left his tenured position after colleagues refused to respond to his concerns with students spreading radical Muslim views.

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  1. by avatar martin14
    Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:43 am
    At least this guy see could the writing on the wall, while the rest if us look around and go,

    'aww what pretty scribbling'.

  2. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:14 pm
    "martin14" said
    At least this guy see could the writing on the wall, while the rest if us look around and go,

    'aww what pretty scribbling'.


    Well, that's because it was actually written on the wall. ;)

  3. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Tue Jul 01, 2014 11:58 pm
    Damian Clairmont, 22, was killed in Syria, likely in December or January, while reportedly fighting alongside a group of al-Qaida-affiliated rebels. News emerged this month that Salman Ashrafi, who grew up in Calgary, was part of a suicide bomb attack in Iraq in November 2013.


    Ah, moslem youth! They blow up so soon! :mrgreen:

  4. by avatar andyt
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 12:17 am
    The student should be allowed to push his extremist views, just as you are free to push yours Bart, as long as he doesn't call for violence. He's probably further away from that line than you've have come at times.

    But, if the uni wants to allow extreme free speech, then it also has to give voice to the anti-abortionists, and whatever distasteful groups there are that don't cross the line into illegality.

    If the prof is uncomfortable with conservative views of Islam expressed in his class, he really has no more business teaching than all the other wimps that cry about "discomfort" at uni. He can engage the student, ask them to make a cogent argument for their case, and if they can't, he can give them a poor mark

    The problem is the selective nature of university free speech - uni should be a place where people can let it all hang out, as long as they can back it up. Unfortunately not only do unis censor speech, but so do our hate laws. I think anything that doesn't promote criminal acts should be allowed.

  5. by avatar Unsound
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 12:21 am
    +5 If I could Andy.

  6. by avatar andyt
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 12:28 am
    IT's the thought that counts

  7. by avatar Unsound
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:34 am
    "andyt" said
    IT's the thought that counts


    And that's why I will be of diamonds for my wife's birthday. :D

  8. by avatar andyt
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:43 am
    I think somebody will be of sex for a while.

  9. by avatar sandorski
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 2:04 am
    "Unsound" said
    IT's the thought that counts


    And that's why I will be of diamonds for my wife's birthday. :D

    Oh, that's gonna end well...

  10. by avatar Unsound
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:12 am
    Naw, I married a good one. She'd be more likely to get mad at me for wasting money on something as impractical as diamonds.

  11. by avatar Xort
    Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:45 am
    Hughes, who is Jewish, said he interpreted the message as anti-Semitic


    Why am I not surprised?



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