Earlier this year DePaul University was given the first-ever "Lifetime Censorship Award" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for its long, inglorious history of punishing and suppressing mostly conservative speech.
The nation's largest Catholic university – which doesn't want students to hear about radical Islam's threat to gay people, vandalism against pro-lifers or criticism of race preferences – has appeared with regularity on FIRE's annual list of the worst colleges for free speech.
[...] DePaul is slashing dozens of staff positions to "place the university in a better long-term position to invest in strategic growth," according to a statement to staff Thursday obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The 62 full- and part-time staff members are mostly in administrative support roles, and they represent 3.5 percent of non-faculty workers. The statement didn't specify exact positions. The school avoided the ire of its faculty by sparing them any layoffs.
Source: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45753/
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Wednesday June 13 2018, @11:58PM (5 children)
Quoting Hadith to represent Islam in the whole is like quoting the Book of Mormon to represent Christianity as a whole. Stop it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:49AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:33AM (1 child)
The obvious rebuttal is a fattwah up your skinny ass, khallow. You pretending you know anything about islam is as funny as you knowing anything about MySQL!!! Poser!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 15 2018, @03:50AM
Ok, so what about Oxford Dictionary. Are you going to claim they are similar ignorant?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:20AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:36AM
False equivalency. Mainstream Islam includes various Hadiths and:
https://www.quran.com/33/21 [quran.com]
You can pick the Shia hadiths or the Sunni Hadiths, in the big picture it doesn't really matter. Feel free even to just pick the principles and rules where both Shia and Sunni hadiths agree and feel free to leave out the bits where they disagree (e.g. whether Muhammad was a pedophile or not). It still doesn't paint a good picture.
Because the inconvenient truth is if you truly followed Muhammad's example you'd be more likely to be waging wars and killing people, whereas if you followed Jesus's example you would be the one who dies first, and if you followed the various Buddhas examples you would be peacefully meditating somewhere for much of your life...
There are many people (including many atheists) who like to claim all religions are the same but they're ignorant, stupid or dishonest. Even if you consider religions as diseases there's a difference between the common cold and flu. The prognosis and treatment is different. And in the past people getting cow pox first made them less likely to get a very bad case of small pox.