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Home Front: Culture Wars
Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent
2020-05-09
[PJ] This will teach those Islamophobes that Islam is a religion of peace: a professor is facing death threats for suggesting otherwise. 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, D.C., 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:

  • Who do terrorists strive to emulate? A. Mohammed
  • 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]
  • 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.
    • Posted by:Besoeker

    #10  But it's a religion of piss peace. Georgie Boosh said so. Who can argue with that?
    Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-09 13:10  

    #9  Raymond Ibrahim’s book “Sword and Scimitar “ says precisely the same things in enormous detail and impeccable sourcing. CAIR went apoplectic when he gave a presentation at the Army War College because viewing the Koran and Hadiths as a political and military doctrine that grew out of a murderous cult is anathema to their pretext of religion of peace.
    Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-05-09 12:15  

    #8  Down $1 today.
    Posted by: Lex   2020-05-09 11:38  

    #7  Great headline! It even brought a chuckle from ole Granny Clampett this morning.
    Posted by: Tennessee   2020-05-09 11:34  

    #6  troll level: master
    Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-05-09 08:36  

    #5  #3 Reportedly the Tlaxcalans asked only one question of Cortes when confronted with the demands to convert, and swear allegiance to the Spanish crown, 'Can we kill Aztecs?'.
    Posted by: Cesare   2020-05-09 08:14  

    #4  Sadly, now this professor can add another question--Which group threatens to kill university/college professors?
    Posted by: Clem   2020-05-09 07:02  

    #3  No different than pointing out that before the Europeans arrived Native Americans were like any other human society, hierarchical, tribal, and territorial. They simply practiced it with stone age weapons. Some, like the Aztecs and Incas, more efficiently than others, but just as human as their European competitors. Cortez didn't surround the entire city of Tenochtitlan with a few hundred Spanish. He had an army of natives out for revenge and payback.
    Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-09 06:54  

    #2  QED.
    Posted by: gorb   2020-05-09 04:38  

    #1  Not the Bee, unfortunately.
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-05-09 03:40  

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