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Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures
First time submitter Readycharged writes "The Daily Mail reports on a piece from The Sunday Times revealing that University College London have seen an increasing number of Muslim students boycotting lectures on Evolution due to clashes with the Koran. Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics, says, 'I've had one or two slightly frisky discussions with kids who belonged to fundamentalist Christian churches, now it's Islamic overwhelmingly.' He adds, 'What they object to — and I don't really understand it, I am not religious — they object to the idea that there is a random process out there which is not directed by God.' The article also reveals that Evolutionary Biologist and former Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins also experienced Muslims walking out of such lectures."
Then I'm sure they will be all for it. Can't let something like quantum mechanics get in the way of a good jihad.
What does evolution have to do with medics? I bet most doctors in the world know very little about evolution theory.
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yes please. if you want to live like you did back home, go back home. the fact you left speaks volumes about the quality of life the culture there has created. otherwise, give up the belief-arrogance that keeps your old home in the dark ages, learn to speak at least passable english, and most importantly, accept the rule of law present there. if you don't like it, get out. that's most likely what your country of birth would say to me if I complained as you do here, and I would be lucky for such a reprieve! most likely I'd be imprisoned for speaking out against the state religion.
To be fair I suspect it's actually just more subtle than as mentioned in TFA.
This is The Daily Mail writing on an article from The Times, it may as well be the KKK writing on an article from the Nazis.
Realistically this is just their weekly attempt at stirring up hatred for muslims as both The Times and The Daily Mail are staunch supporters of christianity and christian values (Porn is evil etc.), and are far right to boot.
They hate anything that isn't a white British Christian and use their publications weekly to push that agenda.
I suspect the truth is something more along the lines of "One or two muslim kids weren't smart enough to cope with the course content so used some shitty excuse about it being against their religion and walked out the class, so we extrapolated this to say lots and lots of muslims are doing it, far more than any christian kids who have ever given up on a class with some shitty excuse because it was too hard for them.".
The additional irony is their "Even Richard Dawkins experienced this!" - yes, Richard Dawkins, their usual arch enemy because he doesn't believe in god.
You only have to look at their style of writing to see my point:
"Similar to the beliefs expressed by fundamentalist Christians, Muslim opponents to Darwinism maintain that Allah created the world, mankind and all known species in a single act."
Note the fundamentalist Christians vs. Muslims - so if they have this belief and are Christian they're fundamentalists, but for muslims there's no such distinction - it's not just the fundamentalists, all muslims are the same! - that's what they're implying. It's bullshit.
Sure it'd be nice if the people in question just admitted they don't really like the course or can't keep up, but some people have too much pride to simply admit that.
Grandparent is now (Score: 5, Interesting). I've found that when things get posted in the wee hours EST, you have to wait at least a few hours to let the overnight crazy brigade settle down a bit.
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes