Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain's leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran.
Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist theory, which form an important part of the syllabus, citing their religion.
Similar to the beliefs expressed by fundamentalist Christians, Muslim opponents to Darwinism maintain that Allah created the world, mankind and all known species in a single act.
Steve Jones emeritus professor of human genetics at university college London has questioned why such students would want to study biology at all when it obviously conflicts with their beliefs.
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Announce beforehand that anyone who does not sit for the complete lectures will be marked down as failing the course and will therefore not be given a medical degree.
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Plus, it would imply that the university thinks that Western civilization is something worth cherishing, preserving and passing on. This would conflict with the primary mission of a modern university - to promote sophistry and relativism.
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"Army, Navy and RAF chiefs have been visiting former Soviet states bordering Afghanistan to draw up a masterplan for what has been dubbed the new Dunkirk."
**Gulp** Looks like Ogabe's policy's working to design. I'm more worried that he's got the "new Gandamak" as a backup plan...
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Good citation.
A few highlights from that article: The remnants dragged on and made a last stand near the village of Gandamack on 13 January. The force was down to fewer than forty men and almost out of food and ammunition. They were surrounded on a hillock and when a surrender was offered by the Afghans, one British sergeant gave the famous answer "Not bloody likely!" All were killed except Captain James Souter, Sergeant Fair and seven soldiers who were taken prisoner.[7]
Only one British officer from the army managed to reach Jalalabad...It is said that he was asked upon arrival what happened to the army, and answered "I am the army."...The annihilation of about 16,500 people left Britain and India in shock ... In the Autumn of 1842 an "Army of Retribution" led by Sir George Pollock, with William Nott and Robert Sale commanding divisions, levelled Kabul...
The British, after they took their revenge on Kabul, had resolved to abandon any attempts to intervene in the internal affairs of Afghanistan. After Shuja Shah was assassinated in April 1842, Dost Mohammed quickly reestablished his authority. He died on 9 June 1863 of natural causes, one of the few Afghan rulers in the past thousand years to do so.
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