Monday, August 10, 2015

Nuts in Academia...


Kaukab Siddique doesn't regret calling Pamela Geller and like-minded anti-Muslim commentators "dirty Jewish Zionist thugs."
"I would say it again," the Lincoln University associate professor of English said defiantly.
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Most recently, Siddique drew ire for Facebook posts that included the remark about Geller, suggested that one reason Bill Cosby's accusers did not come forward sooner could be that "many women are sluts" and opposed a "homo uprising." 
Lest we forget (from here on BooksInq) ...
The Koran, in fact, does not directly forbid the portrayal of Muhammad. And the second most important Islamic text, the Hadith, “presents us with an ambiguous picture at best,” wrote Christine Gruber of the University of Michigan. “At turns we read of artists who dared to breathe life into their figures and, at others, of pillows ornamented with figural imagery.” The most explicit fatwa banning the portrayal of Muhammad, she notes, isn’t tucked into some ancient text. It arrived in 2001. And its creator was the Taliban. The ban is a very modern construct.The link above is to the Washington Post.  More from the NPR's Here and Now here, Newsweek here, and a Muslim picture archive here.  

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