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Check out this story I gave to the College Fix:
Christian university to send students to mosque for ‘religious experience,’” by Jennifer Kabbany, The College Fix, January 24, 2017:
Story continues below advertisementStudents enrolled in a world religions course this semester at Texas Christian University must attend a mosque service as part of the class.
The field trip was scheduled to take place on Good Friday – one of the most holy days for Christians – observed as the day Jesus Christ was crucified.
“Every student is expected to attend this service,” states the syllabus, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix. “This visit is part of your participation in class. Many other students from our department will join us. It is a religious experience visit. No student is required to participate in mosque’s service during our visit.”Reached for comment, a campus spokesperson said the field trip’s date was assigned in error, that the university is closed on Good Friday, and the professor is working to reschedule the mosque visit.
“Texas Christian University is actually closed on Good Friday,” spokeswoman Holly Ellman told The College Fix in an email. “The date on the syllabus was inaccurate, which the professor is aware of and is modifying. He will notify his students accordingly to ensure that they have accurate, up-to-date information about the course.”
Asked for further clarification on the field trip, and the course and its content, Ellman referred to the class’ one-sentence online description.
Spring semester launched in mid-January at the private university, located in Fort Worth. The course, “Understanding Diverse Faith Communities,” is taught by Associate Professor of Islamic and Religious Studies Yushau Sodiq, whose faculty page states he earned his bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies and master’s degree in Islamic law at University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, and his PhD in Islamic Studies from Temple University. He also taught at a university in Nigeria before his post at Texas Christian University, which he has held since 1992.
Sodiq did not respond to emails from The College Fix asking whether there is an alternative assignment for students who do not wish to observe the Islamic service, and well as for more general information on the course and its academic aims.
According to the syllabus, the intention of the mosque visit is to “understand the ritual and tradition of other religions in their own context.”
“You can also invite your friends to join in this visit,” the syllabus states. “… If you do not attend the mosque, you will not be able to do the quiz and as you know, there is not make-up for quizzes.”
The 90-minute visit will include an address by the “leader of the Muslim community” and an observation of the sunset prayer, it adds.
One option for extra credit in the class is called “Being Muslim for a Day,” in which students can dress as a Muslim or tell their family they’ve become Muslim and document the reactions.
The syllabus was provided to The College Fix by Pamela Geller, who obtained it from a campus source.
Geller is president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a nonprofit “dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, individual rights and equality for all before the law.” Geller is known for, among other things, her activism against the encroachment of Sharia Law in the United States and her defiant stance against Islam’s strict and unconstitutional religious tenets, such as the law that the prophet Mohammad must not be drawn.
In a statement to The Fix, Geller expressed concern about the course at Texas Christian University:
“Sodiq’s syllabus for his ‘Understanding Diverse Faith Communities’ states that the course is meant ‘to enable our students comprehend the meanings and nature of world religions’ … Yet while the class discusses Islam, Judaism, African traditional religions, and Buddhism (apparently Sodiq assumes that students at Texas Christian University know all they need to know about Christianity already), Sodiq’s syllabus plans for five sessions on Islam, plus two more on The Kite Runner, a novel about Muslims in Afghanistan, and another for the mosque visit, for a total of eight on Islam and related themes,” Geller stated. “Meanwhile, only four class sessions are planned on Buddhism, three on Judaism, and two on African traditional religions.”
Geller also takes issue with the mosque trip: “Sodiq implies that the visit has a proselytizing intent as he writes: ‘You can also invite your friends to join in this visit’ – and ominously, ‘If you do not attend the mosque, you will not be able to do the quiz and as you know, there is not make-up for quizzes.”
“The syllabus does not explain why there is no visit to a synagogue, church, Buddhist temple, or any other house of worship – only to a mosque,” Geller told The Fix. “Sodiq also requires that students complete a journal entry on ‘Islamophobia.’ He asks for no journal entry on anti-Semitism or prejudice or hatred against any other group.”…
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56 Comments
7 years ago
Will the students be searched for crucifixes, or stars of David?
I would bet there are lot of parents who are pissed about this trip of indoctrination to a mosque.
If it were my kid I would be.
7 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
You can bet that most of them are aware of it by now and furious. I’m sure the phone and Internet lines to TCU administration are smoking hot. At $1,480/semester hour, how would you feel?
7 years ago
Tell the ‘professor’ you learned all you need to know about Islam on 9-11-2001. . . and practically every day thereafter.
Then direct him and everyone in earshot to this website.
7 years ago
They say, “ignorance is bliss”. Not in this case. This school is “Christian” in name only. You have a bunch of secular instructors who think all religions are roughly the same.
Hard heads have soft a**es.
7 years ago
Pamela, this problem has been solved.
7 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Trust me. The syllabus is being changed to reflect the correct dates. Now, I don’t know if going to a mosque is still on the agenda, but I know it’s not going to be on Good Friday. Of course, the university is touting it as a mistake. To totally fix it, of course, they’d need to fire the professor and admit complicity and lying, but he’d immediately sue them for religious discrimination. This was probably some sort of cair set up, it always is. I have a direct source. Check on it in a few days and you’ll see that I’m telling you the truth.
7 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
If it is not going to be on Good Friday, then another day is set and still not good enough.
How many other schools may be doing the same?
The University itself must have known that the professor was going to take the student’s to a Mosque. Besides the Professor the highest one in administration that knew needs to go as well.
Must be some University ruling to allow University to sack those that do not fit the schools ways to avoid conflict. If not the Federal Government needs to change to allow Universities, schools to sack those and not face charges of racism.
Trump’s Governmrnt must declare that Islam is not a religion but an ideology. Must also bring in laws to say that Islam schools are not recognised places of learning. That would stop funding
7 years ago
The Disciple Paul is up in Heaven throwing up.
Could you imagine he of the Gospel of NO compromise of The Faith going along with this for but one nanosecond?
On Good Friday,yet?
I’M gonna go throw up.
7 years ago
The Muslims religion shows tolerance to nobody and yet we pander to them. So pathetic.. Strangely Muslims are not migrating to any Muslim countries…..just the ones they always seem to hate… The “I” in ISIS or ISIL does not stand for Idiot, it stands for Islam(ic).
7 years ago
It amazes me that people can be so stupid.
7 years ago
A Muslim professor ,say no more .they will be the laugh of the day for mosk.in Arabic they will be converted .
7 years ago
Some one on the Board of Directors has been paid off!!!!!
7 years ago
Reply to
karl59
I can guarantee you that at this moment some of the school administrators have huge bloody chunks taken out of their asses.
7 years ago
A Saudi Wahhabi trained ‘minder’ for the brainwashed youth.
7 years ago
Thirty pieces of silver go a long ways in selling out Christianity to islam.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
No one had to pay this muslum professor off to propagandize pi$$lam — it’s as natural a thing as molesting a little boy, raping a woman or killing an unbeliever in pi$$Lam.
7 years ago
ACLU-approved religious instruction.
7 years ago
This is “taught by Associate Professor of Islamic and Religious Studies Yushau Sodiq, whose faculty page states he earned his bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies and master’s degree in Islamic law at University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, and his PhD in Islamic Studies from Temple University. He also taught at a university in Nigeria before his post at Texas Christian University, which he has held since 1992.”
This guy or whatever it is, is a MUSLIM! That’s why do didn’t KNOW about Good Friday. Muslims do NOT celebrate that.
If you are a CHRISTIAN, you can NOT be a “Muslim for a day”.
FORCING students to go to a MOSQUE is WRONG.
Are they FORCING MUSLIMS to attend a Christian church and be a CHRISTIAN for a day? What is WRONG with this “Christian” university?
7 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
If his credentials were bought on ebay, they would be far more legitimate that the garbage he got hired with. The board of directors of Texas Christian University, should be institutionalized in a lunatic asylum.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Allowing these people to teach in our schools is beyond insane those responsible for their employment in these schools should be ushered out of their jobs forever !
7 years ago
Reply to
Bill Kay
liberal stupidity has infiltrated the schools in the disguise of multicultural awareness, it never infiltrates islam as it is murdered immediately by islam.
7 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Oh, please, he KNEW about good Friday and that’s why he did it. Dude, catch up.
7 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
For one to teach in the United States they need to do teaching exams in the US before they can teach in the US
You cannot have Muslim quacks teaching that do not meet the American standards or follow guidelines
7 years ago
This is a blatant attempt to desensitize Christians to Islam and recruit for Islam.
Notice how the converse does not happen for Muslims that attend this course.
This is outrageous. Why did this “Christian” University hire this freak?
7 years ago
“Sodiq also requires that students complete a journal entry on ‘Islamophobia.’ He asks for no journal entry on anti-Semitism or prejudice or hatred against any other group.”…
ABUSE of a teacher. FORCING them to be PRO ISLAM.
What the hell is wrong with this “Christian” University?
7 years ago
All this belligerent islamification of anything possible, is encouraging the deep seated hatred of islam and its cheating lying ways of dealing with people. The more islam tries to deceive and impose, the more people hate and resit it.
7 years ago
It’s not going to happen.
7 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
I think the advice you gave me, on blocking, a while back may have worked.
THANKS…….
7 years ago
It only stands to reason:
Q: How do two TCU students change a flat tire?
A: One holds the drinks while the other calls his daddy.
7 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
You must’ve gone to TCU. Seriously, if you didn’t, you don’t know how accurate that is.
7 years ago
HOW CAN THEY CALL IT A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO TURN IT MUSLIM? ANY PARENT PAYING FOR THIS NONSENSE IS DUMB
7 years ago
Who ever is in contact with Donald Trump, get him to sack the staff and protect the students
Some of you must be on Twitter @realDonaldTrump
Close that Mosque down for corrupting student minds
7 years ago
HOW STUPID!!!!
7 years ago
The course is world religon, so I don’t really see a problem here. If it was done for all students I would be fuming!
7 years ago
Reply to
lordlindley
Do try to catch on and up. It was scheduled for Good Friday. It was a statement of Islamic Supremacism. Good grief.
7 years ago
Their Blood Cult Book tells them to kill in the “present Tense” ! No other cult religion does this…. This religion needs to be FULLY BANNED in the US ! Spread this message to your Congressman ! You have the freedom of religion but NOT FREEDOM TO PROPAGATE KILLING in your little blood cult book and religion!
7 years ago
synonyms for the word “Stupid”…and each of those words found, fits them to a “T” neighbor.
7 years ago
I guarantee the vast majority of the students, faculty and administrators of TCU know precious little about the Bible, the Nature of God, the Person of Jesus Christ, Salvation, etc. even though they are referred to as a so-called, Christian university.
Her history may have been great, as a predominantly-Christian university. But, in the modern era (like so many others) she is apostate!
Fact is, the overwhelming number of ‘Christians’ are not only biblically-illiterate, but woefully blind concerning the clear-and-present dangers posed by Civilizational Jihad!!
Therefore, they will, likely, wonder “Why all the fuss?”
7 years ago
Reply to
Pastor C
For starts they need to learn about Holy Ground, My God does not reside in Muslim Mosques, neither should believers of Christ. definately Muslim soil is unclean. Not right for any true believer in Christ to step onto unclean soil
Exodus 3:5 King James Version (KJV)
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
7 years ago
Trump will put a stop to this nonsense.
7 years ago
“Associate Professor of Islamic and Religious Studies Yushau Sodiq, whose faculty page states he earned his bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies and master’s degree in Islamic law at University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, and his PhD in Islamic Studies from Temple University. He also taught at a university in Nigeria before his post at Texas Christian University, which he has held since 1992.” ? ? ?
What Thinking Christian University would hire this Subversive Loon?
The U is obviously run by Infadels without a clue !
A 25 year old Churchill, 118 years ago wrote . . . “In every country where Muslims are in the minority they are obsessed with ‘the rule of law’ and minority rights. In every country where Muslims are the majority there is no ‘rule of law’ nor minority rights”
7 years ago
The good news is that they’d be too drunk or hung over to learn anything about Islam anyway.
7 years ago
no need to “go” all you need to know is just a click away – islamcomicbook.com – believe it or else
7 years ago
Be a muslum for a day: molest a little boy, kill a kafir, rape a woman, all for the glory of allah and muhamMUD, the prophet for profit.
7 years ago
Let me get this straight. A Christian university hires a muzrat professor to teach “diversity” to its students. The muzrat professor than schedules a trip to a mosque. And the students parents are paying for this crap??
