For various reasons, some good, many Western universities are keen to establish Islamic Studies programs. And for various other reasons, the same is true of Islamist organizations ”” which tend toward a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. To this end, with a professed goal of fostering “understanding” of Islam, the latter offer hefty financial endowments to universities.
Some critics worry that such a scenario may be in progress at Huron University College, an affiliate of University of Western Ontario (UWO). Huron offers post-baccalaureate and professional degree programs in theology. The College recently accepted a $2-million endowment for a new Chair in Islamic Studies within the College’s historically Anglican Faculty of Theology. About half the money is to come via fundraising facilitated by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), and the other, matching half from the Virginia-based International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). A cofounder of the latter group was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007-2008 trial of Sami al-Arian, an Islamist academic linked to jihadism….
The alarm bells are ringing, but is anyone paying attention? Nope!
The test surely is quite simple. When the Koran/Quran is being examined and taught, will there be a historical critical approach? Will the Islamic scholars examine its different components, dates, literary forms, editorial techniques? This kind of approach is standard in universities when it comes to Jewish and Christian scriptures.
Reading the piece from which the National Post article has been edited is even more illuminating over what we are up against. See
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11284
Ross
“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process,’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [MB] must understand that their work in America is kind of a grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house.”
Now I ask, what part of this do the idiots at Huron College not understand? Are they so dense as to be fooled and lulled into complacency that they accept Islam as just another religion? It [b]isn’t![/b] It is antithetical to our way of life, and they mean to either convert us or [b]kill[/b] us!