Religious Texts Taken Down After Complaints
Muslim students are crying foul after the University of Southern California's provost took down historical documents that call for Muslims to kill Jewish people from a student group's site, the Daily Trojan reports. The documents come from a collection of scriptures known as hadiths, the words of Muhammad not included in the Quran. These hadiths, which include thousands of noninflammatory principles, were posted in their entirety on the school's server as part of the defunct Muslim Student Association's website.
The provost said that "the passage cited is truly despicable.... We did some investigations and have ordered the passage to be removed." But the Muslim Student Union, the dominant Muslim student group at USC, accused the university of censorship, calling the take-down "unprecedented and unconscionable."
"We are outraged at the censorship of a complete religious and classic text without consulting us or any religious authority first," the group said in the statement. "The 'compendium' is now incomplete. There are verses in many religious texts (be it the Torah or the New Testament) that when taken out of context can be taken as offensive."
Supporters of the move defend the provost's actions. "It may be part of the religious canon, but that doesn't make them less hateful," said David Horowitz, who has lobbied a number of schools to remove the "hadiths of hate," as he calls them, from their websites. Horowitz says this is the first he's heard of a university taking down documents after community members complained.
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The provost is quite right to call the hadiths described therein "despicable", for the simple fact that they are, indeed, horrifying. The only problem is that by removing them, the USC Muslim Student Union is then able to pretend they never existed in the first place.
Their complaint, however, of offensive passages in the Torah and NT is spurious - which Christian and Jewish terrorists, exactly, are citing these passages in defense of their actions? Which people are being executed in Christian countries, or in Israel, for leaving Christianity or Judaism? Where does it say that other religions must be destroyed, and who is doing this in such nations? No one. This underscores the offense that non-muslims take from such extremist doctrine: the issue being that it's actually being acted on. While it's true that while the non-muslim world has much to do (particularly in the area of gay rights, for example), no legal authority there is advocating the kind of heinous religious discrimination that these hadiths - and every single islamic country in the world - so viciously endorse.
I'd recommend that everyone reading this link visit the site www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch to get a better perspective and a rounder education on the social failings of political islamism. If the offensive hadiths disturbed you, then you'd be advised to find out how they're actually being employed.
www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch
Geoff P
Swimming Up De-Nile
Can The Muslim Student Union show what passages in the Torah or Bible is directly offensive or threatening to Muslims?
The passage removed is a DIRECT THREAT aimed at Jews to KILL THEM - in any context - it is what it is.
Even this post is ass-kissed to death
no article about Muslim-wrongdoing would be complete without some sort of ass-kissing, asterisk, or apologetic tone...
"These hadiths, which include thousands of noninflammatory principles,..."
Did you count them Ms. Go? Do you have a count of the inflammatory principles as well?
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