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| Harvard College Fires Hindu Professor For Criticizing Islam |
| 2011-12-23 |
In a crushing blow to academic freedom, Harvard University has censored and fired a prominent professor because university administrators didn't like what he said about Islam.At a meeting of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, faculty members voted with an "overwhelming majority" to remove two economics courses - 'Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business' and 'Economic Development in India and East Asia' - that Mr Swamy teaches at the three-month Harvard Summer School session. Harvard has dropped economics courses taught by a Hindu professor, Subramanian Swamy, president of the Janata Party of India and a former Union Cabinet minister, because of something that had nothing to do with economics: he wrote an editorial that Muslims find offensive. The Harvard Crimson newspaper said that Swamy's op-ed was "inflammatory" and complained that he "calls for the destruction of mosques as retaliation for terrorist attacks in India, as well as the disenfranchisement of Indian Muslims who refuse to acknowledge Hindu ancestry." The Crimson claimed that "Swamy's op-ed clearly constitutes hate speech, by even the most lenient definition. As a matter of principle, there is no place for hate speech in the Harvard community. ... The faculty's decision to remove Swamy from the teaching roster was wise, just, and reasonable." The history of India is filled with Muslims such as Timur the Terrible, who paraphrased the Koran: "'O prophet make war against the infidels and treat them severely.' My great object in invading Hindustan (India) had been to wage a religious war against the infidel Hindus." And he did. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus were beheaded and towers made of their skulls. The warrior Babur was particularly fond of raising higher and higher towers of Hindu heads that the Muslims had cut off during and after every battle. He loved to sit in his royal tent and watch this spectacle. On one such occasion, the ground flowed with so much blood "and became so filled with quivering carcasses that his tent had to be moved thrice to a higher level." (from The Koran and the Kafir, by A. Ghosh.) He only missed the "merit" of demolishing temples and breaking symbols and images because his predecessor Firuz Tughlak hardly left any for him in the territories he traversed. The record of jihad in India is extremely and unimaginably bloody. Mahmud of Ghazni, Mohammed Ghori, Firuz Tughlak, Timur, Muzaffar Shah, Mahmud Begarha, Mahmud Khalji, Ilyas Shah, Babur, Sher Shah Suri, Akbar the Great, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzib, Abdali, Tipu Sultan, Siraj-ud-Daula, and so many others all persecuted, humiliated, tortured, terrorized, and slaughtered the Hindus throughout Islamic history in India. But Harvard is embarrassed and critical of Swamy's op-ed on how to save his people who today suffer from resurgent jihad. They stand behind their firing of Swamy. The Harvard Crimson says: "Although Swamy's words alone would be reason enough to revoke his permission to teach, there is the further concern that his publications may incite religious violence." June 16, 2010 - “Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, noted Harvard University accepted a $20 million gift from Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz in 2005 that was used to establish a center for Islamic Studies in his honor.” Several major US universities have accepted such grants under the tacit understanding that Islam will be given preferential treatment, and that no criticism of Islam will be tolerated. In addition to grants, some are offered extension schools in Saudi Arabia, as long as no other religions are even mentioned, nor anything else offensive to Saudi sensibilities, and no Jewish personnel are permitted. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 Collegiality is such a wonderful idea. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-23 15:47 |
| #1 incite religious violence? Not from his call, but by an intolerant religion proving his point about it's inherent bloodthirsty nature! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-12-23 11:54 |