"Proverbial Wisdom" at Longwood University

Hat tip Creeping Sharia  and The Rotunda

Creeping Sharia has a post up today on the speaking appearance of Shaykh Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee at Virginia's Longwood University. The post is taken from the Longwood campus paper, The Rotunda

http://www.therotundaonline.com/features/article_8994a0b6-8e85-11e3-9990-001a4bcf6878.html

I added my own comment to the reader thread of the campus paper, which may or not be posted.

Where is the proverbial wisdom in 9-11 conspiracy theories? This man questions where freedom and democracy in American is by dredging up the Jim Crow era, which has been consigned to the ash heap of history.

Where is freedom and democracy in any Muslim-majority nation on earth, to which the speaker would like to add America to the list? In virtually every every Muslim- majority country, religious minorities are being severely persecuted as well as gays.

This Muslim Journeys Bookshelf project is part of a nation-wide program to put a happy face on something that is anything but happy. If the speaker's dream should come true and America become an Islamic land, freedom will become a thing of the past. The true goal should be for Muslims in America to become assimilated into American values of freedom and true pluralism that includes all religions -not just Islam.

Contrary to the speaker's words, the audience should have been all offended.

Gary Fouse
Adj teacher
UC Irvine Ext

The Muslim Journeys Bookshelf project is funded by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is a nationwide program that covers libraries all over the country. Needless to say, it puts a great big happy face on the topic of Islam.

After questioning the legitimacy of higher education, Nooruddeen questioned our collective belief in the American ideal of “the home of the free and the brave” by citing discrepancies he had with the legitimacy of the attacks on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, which prompted his discussion of cognitive dissonance or “loss of harmony” in the mind caused by two contradictory beliefs existing simultaneously.

Specifically, he called into question the actuality of a 747 hitting the Pentagon when taking into account the size of the hole and lack of titanium scrap at the site. Ellis felt the reference to 9/11 to be “unexpected,” and explained his, now growing interest in the matter.

“I thought it was interesting because I listen to conspiracy theories and he was pretty emphatic about it. I definitely need to go back and look now. It didn’t affect my opinion but it made me want to rethink and reevaluate the whole situation.”

“Remember five things,” Noorudden urged the audience as the night came to a close: peace, justice, mercy, love and freedom. He then quoted Janis Joplin, saying “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” and took a bow.