[Newsbot]

Title: Students' extremist views pushed professor out of U of C
Category: Religion
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2014-06-26 16:29:22
Canadian

[martin14]

At least this guy see could the writing on the wall, while the rest if us look around and go,

'aww what pretty scribbling'.

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

At least this guy see could the writing on the wall, while the rest if us look around and go,

'aww what pretty scribbling'.

Well, that's because it was actually written on the wall.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

Damian Clairmont, 22, was killed in Syria, likely in December or January, while reportedly fighting alongside a group of al-Qaida-affiliated rebels. News emerged this month that Salman Ashrafi, who grew up in Calgary, was part of a suicide bomb attack in Iraq in November 2013.

Ah, moslem youth! They blow up so soon!

[andyt]

The student should be allowed to push his extremist views, just as you are free to push yours Bart, as long as he doesn't call for violence. He's probably further away from that line than you've have come at times.

But, if the uni wants to allow extreme free speech, then it also has to give voice to the anti-abortionists, and whatever distasteful groups there are that don't cross the line into illegality.

If the prof is uncomfortable with conservative views of Islam expressed in his class, he really has no more business teaching than all the other wimps that cry about "discomfort" at uni. He can engage the student, ask them to make a cogent argument for their case, and if they can't, he can give them a poor mark

The problem is the selective nature of university free speech - uni should be a place where people can let it all hang out, as long as they can back it up. Unfortunately not only do unis censor speech, but so do our hate laws. I think anything that doesn't promote criminal acts should be allowed.

[Unsound]

+5 If I could Andy.

[andyt]

IT's the thought that counts

[Unsound]

andyt andyt:

IT's the thought that counts

And that's why I will be thinking of diamonds for my wife's birthday.

[andyt]

I think somebody will be thinking of sex for a while.

[sandorski]

Unsound Unsound:

andyt andyt:

IT's the thought that counts

And that's why I will be thinking of diamonds for my wife's birthday.

Oh, that's gonna end well...

[Unsound]

Naw, I married a good one. She'd be more likely to get mad at me for wasting money on something as impractical as diamonds.

[Xort]

$1:

Hughes, who is Jewish, said he interpreted the message as anti-Semitic

Why am I not surprised?