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.
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.
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.
'aww what pretty scribbling'.
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.
Ah, moslem youth! They blow up so soon!
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.
IT's the thought that counts
And that's why I will be of diamonds for my wife's birthday.
IT's the thought that counts
And that's why I will be of diamonds for my wife's birthday.
Oh, that's gonna end well...
Why am I not surprised?