The decision by Hamline University to purge a minority art teacher for showing a Shiite painting of Mohammed has traveled from the outskirts of a few blogs, and a student paper of the small private college in St. Paul, to art sites, a PEN condemnation and finally the New York Times.
Erika Lopez Prater, an adjunct at Hamline, showed a Persian painting of Mohammed to her class. Aram Wedatalla, a president of the Muslim Student Association, objected. The MSA rallied to denounce her, along with its advisor, Nur Mood: the college’s Assistant Director of Social Justice Programs. The Latina professor was dumped and condemned as an Islamophobe. Jaylani Hussein, CAIR-Minnesota’s director came in to hold a session on Islamophobia. The MSA and CAIR have both been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
When a religion professor pointed out that Muslims have different views on paintings of Mohammed, Hussein described such Muslims as “extremists” and argued that, “You can teach a whole class about why Hitler was good.”
The New York Times then describes how “Ms. Baker, the department head, and Dr. Everett, the administrator, separately walked up to the religion professor, put their hands on his shoulders and said this was not the time to raise these concerns”.
After years of ridiculing warnings that an alliance with Islamists would require them to enforce sharia law, liberals did just that at Hamline University. And this time their targets weren’t white men, but a minority woman and Shiite Muslim paintings.
Minnesota liberals have embraced diversity. And sometimes diversity requires purging a Latina academic trying to teach students about Islamic art because she used works from the Shiite side of the spectrum, rather than the Sunni one that the Muslim Brotherhood belongs to.
One of the paintings comes from Rashid al-Dīn: a Jewish man who converted to Shiite Islam. His motives like those of the vast majority of converts was to avoid persecution and get ahead. The painting, like most Islamic pictoral art, is objectively terrible and could be improved on by a moderately talented six-year-old. The only reason Islamic art is ever taught is for diversity.
Islam was quickly tossed into everything after September 11 as a show of tolerance. Muslims, formerly obscure, became ground zero for diversity. A market for Islamic art heated up. Despite hard strictures against religion in the workplace, corporations and government offices felt the need to virtue signal with a show of support for Muslims. That meant posters with women wearing hijab and a lot of Koranic calligraphy in places that would never display a Bible.
Many Muslims were not happy to see Islamic scriptures displayed in ‘filthy’ places. Muslim groups had previously accused everything from a Nike sneaker to an ice cream swirl, and any set of curves, of blasphemously containing Allah’s name. They were enraged to see it being offered up for tattoos or hanging in the bathroom of a urologist’s office.
Islamists were never interested in “diversity”. What they wanted was for everyone to respect Islamic laws. In the name of tolerance, liberals became theocrats and Islamists used the grammar of diversity to eliminate any diversity. Confronted with objections, Hamline’s Islamists resorted to equating Shiite pictures of Mohammed with Hitler or the ‘N-word’.
Liberals, who accepted the premise that tolerance requires theocracy, are unable to navigate the issue. The New York Times interviewed a Persian Shiite professor at Duke who explained that he loves and shows pictures of Mohammed all the time. Yet the entire article never uses the terms, “Sunni” or “Shiite” or suggests that there are sectarian differences at work.. After having taken it on themselves to impose Islamic theocracy, they are reluctant to adjudicate it.
And yet, unlike Mohammed cartoons, what happened at Hamline University shows that the intersectional enforcement of Islamic theocracy alongside Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and Planned Parenthood requires more than just banning criticism of Mohammed, but even suppressing other Islamic doctrines in favor of the supremacy of Sunni Islamists.
Anything else is a hate crime.
Hamline University’s social justice administration purged a Latina art teacher because she dared to show works from the Shiite canon which offended Sunnis linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Liberals found it very easy to support Islamic supremacism when it was a matter of banning conservative protesters from burning the Koran or mentioning that Mohammed was a child molester. But that was just the camel’s nose creeping into the tent. The rest of the camel requires that America be reordered thoroughly in line with Islamic law in every possible detail.
While liberals see a distinction between a defaced Koran, a Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Mohammed and a Shiite painting of Mohammed, to the Muslim Brotherhood there is no difference. And the Democrat political establishment and the leftist cultural affiliates that surrendered to the Brotherhood’s front groups have to decide where to draw the line.
Islam has been in a state of perpetual civil war for most of its existence. Muslim civil wars have killed far more people in the last decade than all our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And we’ve imported that civil war into America.
That’s not just idle talk or conspiracy theories. The worst series of Muslim murders in America were carried out by an Afghan Sunni targeting Afghan Shiites in Albuquerque. Importing Islam doesn’t just mean machete attacks in Times Square, it also meant three teens who were arrested in November for plotting to kill everyone in a Shiite mosque in Chicago.
The leftists who got into bed with Sunni Islamists thought that all they had to do was make Americans defer to Islamic theocracy, but getting schoolchildren to visit mosques or convincing our leaders to ban criticism of Islam was the easy part. The hard part is doing what the Muslims themselves were never able to do for any real length of time: maintain a unified theocracy.
Hamline University had a lot more Sunnis than Shiites. Its Islamic student organization is the MSA. And the leadership found it expedient to accept Sunni Islamic theocracy and denounce Shiite depictions of Mohammed. Nationally, liberals are less comfortable with that bargain. PEN has denounced Hamline and the New York Times awkwardly suggests it’s a complex issue.
It’s complex, but not in a way that the media or their party are willing to discuss or accept.
Islamists repeatedly tell us that there is “only one Islam”. What they really mean is that there’s only one Islam that they will accept. Sunnis, with their superior numbers and Muslim Brotherhood organizations financed by oil money, dominate. And it is now our job to help them enforce that “one Islam” in America. Sharia means that we are their religious police.
Intersectionality has outsourced the enforcement of Islamic theocracy to social justice groups, campus administrators, corporations, government offices and all the woke institutions.
Wokeness is sharia. That is the awkward reality playing out at Hamline which brought in its first black president, who denounced academic freedom for permitting the display of Mohammed art, where Islamists were appointed to administer social justice, and now faces a liberal backlash.
But the backlash carefully avoids the central issues, especially the conflation of theocracy with tolerance, which is at the heart of the post 9/11 dirty deal that liberals made with Islamists.
Until they’re ready to rethink that deal, they’ll have to enforce Islamic law in America.
I sincerely hope that you guys have strict security protocols in place, the religion of peace doesn’t like this and they have a history of mostly peaceful attacks against anyone who draws a picture of their minor attracted hero.
You are forgetting a lot here.
1. Hate sites are a dime a dozen and this blog is no exception.
2. This does provide evidence that the hate and violence comes from the US right and is rarely directed against it.
3. FPM doesn’t actually do anything. Well, except sell garbage to their chump fanbase.
4. D.Hoe and pals are utterly replaceable and don’t offer any real insights. It’s just prole feed.
Hey Dan I’ll bet you don’t live near muzzies, because you know exactly what they are — low IQ, sub-human, inherently violent losers. No one likes them…they hate each other. The only fun thing about most muslim violence worldwide is they almost always kill each other…WIN WIN!!
“Hey Dan I’ll bet you don’t live near muzzies [sic]”
No, but I have in the past and shop at Halal stores all the time. This obviously terrifies you because you’re an ignorant coward.
It’s okay. We have a mostly peaceful history of self-defense.
What do you have to say about this comment?
“Hey Dan I’ll bet you don’t live near muzzies, because you know exactly what they are — low IQ, sub-human, inherently violent losers. No one likes them…they hate each other. The only fun thing about most muslim violence worldwide is they almost always kill each other…WIN WIN!!”
Do you enjoy surrounding yourself with genocidal bigots and morons?
You’ve got nothing to say? I thought so. Just another coward on FPM.
Any college or university that has an Assistant Director of Social Justice Programs (probably one of many) also has a Director of Social Justice Programs… think about it, what do these people do all day? This college deserves to whither on the vine. No parent should drop over $40,000.00 a year to have their kids abused by such people
What do they do? They tell everyone that they’re a bunch of racists. That’s not just a job, it’s their calling.
Ms. Prater had told her class that the picture depicting “the perfect man” (i.e., the chap who married his 6 year old cousin and consummated the marriage when she was nine, who slaughtered his conquered men and gave their women to his soldiers as sex slaves) would be displayed in class and that they could absent
themselves if that would offend their tender sensibilities. The fact is, as the column points out, that the Muslims are trying to control what non-Muslims (and Shiite Muslims) can view. And the idiot and cowardly Hamline administration agreed that they should be able to do so and thus impose their beliefs on unbelievers. What a disgrace.
“… who slaughtered his conquered men and gave their women to his soldiers as sex slaves…”
This practice was given a full-throated endorsement in Jewish mythology as well. It wasn’t excised when they made up christianity either. An atrocity is an atrocity no matter who does it.
That is what is known in law as “confession and avoidance.” You admit that Muslims murdered their captive men and gave their women to their own soldiers as sex slaves but claim others did it, too. So what is your point?
Well, if you had actually read my comment you would have found the point:
“An atrocity is an atrocity no matter who does it.”
You need to put in some work.
Are you dense? My point was that others who commit atrocities aren’t regarded as “the perfect man” and the founder of a major religion with a billion followers who believe him to have been perfect. I’m not a Christian but I don’t think Jesus Christ slaughtered his defeated foes and sold their women into sex slavery.
Got any reliable cites for your parallel claims of this sort of perversion amongst either the Israelites or the Christians? I am more than casually acquainted with the history of both groups, and have never run across anything like this.
Cite your sources.
He can’t, or he would have. He just pulls these false statements out of his rear.
The word is “citation” not “cites”. You want a complete history of the crusades? Nah, you can’t focus for that long. How about you read the book of Joshua? Massacre after massacre in a genocidal campaign that I alluded to already. Still to much?
Deuteronomy 20:16-18
Numbers 31 This one includes child murder and slave rape so you’ll probably like that part.
Remember, this is part of both the Torah and Bible. Never redacted. Never denounced.
Glad to see principled liberals coming up with moral equivalence excuses for ISIS
Heck, a liberal Israeli female “scholar” in 2014 wrote in her thesis at Hebrew University accusing male Israeli soldiers of being “raaaaycist” for NOT raping muslim females when on patrol of defending against the yearly rocket attacks from elementary schools in Gaza City.
Stop acting like an FPM pleb and go back and actually read my comment.
We are not talking about the odd religious atrocity, we are discussing 1400 years of constant islamic atrocities. Try and catch up!
LOL! Baby boy you must be new here. The conquest of the Americas, Africa and Asia were carried out under the cover of spreading the christian faith. It was one of many excuses actually. You act like your ilk have clean hands but yours are the bloodiest of all. Now, if you’d just admit it we could make some progress.
What, no examples? Of course not, lol, liar.
Roses are red
violets are blue
Aisha is nine
and Mo’s fifty-two
Anything and everything can be considered unislamic by Muslins if it suits some perceived gain to legitimize this vile religion.
“Minnesota liberals have embraced diversity.”
How can anyone defend Islam and claim to be for diversity?
By diversity, they mean the elimination of people they don’t like with those groups they do like to make American much less diverse.
Islam is an engine of eliminating diversity.
I spent all my life in the Twin Cities, and we did not have aggressive Islam here until recently. When I worked at a downtown hotel years ago, there were employees with whom I worked from several Muslim countries, but they were not interested in Islam and never talked about it. But the Democrat party here has radicalized in recent years and become very pro Islam. Ilhan Omar represents some district here, or rather she represents Islam in Congress based here. It was a nice city before Islamization started to be a factor in politics. The resettlement from Somalia, for example. There were no problems when they resettled Hmong people, but Muslim migrants are a different story, it seems. They say in Europe, the migrants make them stronger. But it does not seem that way here. Perhaps the ones that integrate and adopt Western values do.
Hamline has been here since before the Civil War. It even has a law school. The college has had a good reputation in the past. But several colleges in MN seem to have adopted wokism, including the emphasis on Marxist language changes and woke ideology.
And there was a Muslim policeman who killed a woman who called 911 a few years ago. That is another case of incompatible cultures. So, there is a need for the Muslims to change their culture and give up the demands they are making, not the other way around.
The muslim migrants do not make Europe better, it is being overrun by them whilst they rape our children with almost complete immunity from prosecution because they are “grooming” and Asian according to the BBC.
“And there was a Muslim policeman who killed a woman who called 911 a few years ago. That is another case of incompatible cultures.”
Their is nothing more American than a cop shooting someone who called 911. The only difference in that case was he was actually punished.
Hey Dan please call 911.
Thanx.
Can’t hack it I see. Reality just won’t cut FPMers a break.
We deserve a better class of troll.
@Dr Ernesto
Fascists deserve to be pelted with garbage everywhere they go.
Islam is an imperialist operation. It doesn’t adapt, it forces others to adapt.
And most colleges who got on board with identity politics studies and diversity mandates quickly went woke.
Muslims will never change, and the West is increasingly soy-boy challenged with near zero critical thinking skills. I grew up in MN, moved in ’83, and no longer recognize my beautiful but vapid hometown.
I knew MN was in trouble when they stopped mowing their parks and parkways. The most regressive progressive drivel has gained a foothold never to be removed. It was a great place to grow up though.
Ah, so when things got a little tough you ran for it. Now, you just blame mythological “soy-boys” for everything when it was you who did nothing.
And that folks is why Islamophobia is a legitimate attitude is a Democratic Republic!
A phobia is an irrational fear.
Of course I advocate for the deIslamization of the American Hemisphere.
And of Europe. And the Middle East and North Africa. I look forward to the reopening of Hagia Sofia.
Call me a romantic.
Yes, Sid … many of us are ‘romantic’ ….
Romantic? Nah, you’re just another, dime a dozen, genocidal bigots. Absolutely nothing to say about you. It’s kind of sad actually.
There are no photos of Mohammed nor any depictions of him created during his lifetime in existence so anyone can say any human face depicts Mohammed and start a conflict.
That’s what South Park did.
Yes , Charlie Hebdo proved that even cartoons warrant violent, infantile tantrums and riots. Or draw Muhammad in Paris, lose ‘only’ 600 cars.
Considering cameras weren’t a thing until the 19th century there shouldn’t be pictures of ANYONE from that time period. As for no surviving depictions from Mohamed’s life you could say that about virtually everyone until relatively modern times. So, that’s not really the flex you want it to be.
You also need to be careful because that certainly includes Jesus. You wouldn’t want to disprove his existence, right?
Just start making it a habit to ALWAYS refer to every Liberal Commie Scum as an ISLAMOPHILE or ISLAMOPHILIC in the same vein as PEDOPHILE, and not ANGLOPHILE/FRANCOPHILE.
Deport all muslims to Crapistan.
It’s the only way to save America from what’s happening to western Europe.
Don’t believe all that stuff from the Junk for Brains Liberals spew to us on the 6:00 News