Standing in Solidarity: Amid attacks and false perceptions, stand in support of our University
Tower Editorial
October 28, 2011
Filed under Quill
Our university has been featured all over national news channels this past week in reference to the recent controversy over Muslim students on campus.
Headlines like, “Holy War in DC”, “Catholic Violates Human Rights” and “Catholic University Charged with Bias” keep pouring in as the debate intensifies.
The Tower staff stands in solidarity with CUA’s Muslim students who have been wrongfully accused of complaining against their university. Last week’s article about the legal action taken against the university only revealed the general sense of acceptance that our many Muslim students feel as members of the CUA community.
As Catholic students, we are proud of the diversity of religion and culture at our school, which testifies to the universal character of the Catholic Church, and we are offended by the unjustifiable criticism and hate that our institution has suffered.
To our knowledge, this lawsuit has been perpetrated by George Washington University Professor John Banzhaf and no one else. There have been no formal complaints made by our Muslim students, unlike the media and Banzhaf suggest, and there has been no official statement sent to the University by the Office of Human Rights.
For the second time, Banzhaf has attempted to drive a wedge between students at our University by occupying our time and money with frivolous lawsuits that witness only to his desire for fame and his rejection of anything that resembles morality and conscience.
The Tower would like to say that we are proud of our university, we are proud of being Catholic, and we are proud that we are held to higher standards than students at other schools might be.
Contrary to what Banzhaf and much of the media thinks, we are not oppressed students who don’t have a handle on real life because of our Catholic values.
We do not let our beliefs as Catholics cause us to ruthlessly criticize the peaceful choices of other cultures, religions and ways of life because we have a genuine respect for fellow human beings.
We only ask that we receive that same respect in return.
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Whoever wrote this moronic editorial, you are speaking for yourself. You are not speaking for the majority of Catholic students at CUA.
Those of us who understand Catholicism and Islam know what Islam stands for: Submission. And you are doing a pretty good job of it.
You are making the Muslim students into the victims here. They are NOT the victims and are laughing at your stupidity. Where is your proof that they did not contact Banzhaf?
Please educate yourself on Islam, instead of spouting the same old PC cliches about Islam. The onus is on the anti-Israel and anti-American Muslims on the CUA campus to respect our Catholic traditions, not for us to submit to them.
Countdown to when the liberal administration at CUA further submits to Islam: Prayer rooms, halal food, Muslim Student Association. Now that Muslims have made themselves into phony victims, I’m sure Garvey will cave pretty soon.
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Robert James Burkholder Reply:
October 29th, 2011 at 6:56 am
@John M, I agree with John. The Muslim students are engaging in stealth jihad attempting to force the Catholic University they chose to submit to Islam-and be less Catholic Christian. The insisted their non-Catholic religious faith be accommodated and it apparently has been. Now they want a Catholic University to do more -be less Catholic. This Perfessor at Georgetown U. has manifested extreme anti-Religious Bias– and dangerous Bias that seems decidedly anti-Catholic .I would not be surprised if he didn’t don a pointy hatted white sheet costume when he is not posing as a respected law professor and human rights activist. Let Catholics be Catholic or apostate.If not Catholic I would favor excommunication. Why continue a name one chooses to no longer identify with in discipline ,and action?
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Liutas Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
@John M, too bad these guys don’t have a clue. Like you point out, where is the evidence that Muslim students had no involvement with Banzhaf’s suit? What about the students who wanted to form a Muslim Student Association (a Muslim Brotherhood group) at CUA? What is their motivation for enrolling at CUA? My guess is this has many layers and goes much deeper than it appears. I sincerely hope some truth-seeking investigative journalist digs into this story and finds out who Banzhaf is associated with, who is paying him, if any CUA students DID get in touch with him or members of CAIR. The Muslim Brotherhood has been in the US at least since the 1950′s and has studied us from within. They have been waiting and they can wait some more, they know the time is coming soon, especially with the many opportunities the leftist Obama administration has opened up for them. If the Muslim students are truly offended at Banzhaf’s suit and had nothing to do with it, then THEY should come out and speak loudly and publicly on their own behalf. They should publicly announce that they have not asked and have no desire to ask CUA for any such accommodations because they understand that that would be imposing Islam on a Catholic institution. We know this won’t happen, but it should.
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Dear Tower Staff,
It sounds like you are still spinning from being suddenly thrust into a bright, hot, national spotlight. In addition to that glare, you’re being exposed to a lot of information about Islam that doesn’t easily fit into a moral framework that assumes that all religions basically have redeeming characteristics. Understandable. Much of the information revealed in the original comment board is life-changing and can take a while to process. I do hope that you take some time at your next staff meeting to carefully read through those comments, especially some of the Muslim voices. One on 10/27 1:17 p.m. clearly states a Muslim goal: “Islam is coming to northamerica at the speed of light. You may be able to slow it down a bit, but stopping it is impossible.” Another on 10/24 2:16 p.m. admits to Muslim taqiyya. There is also a lot of information about the global impact of Islam. You owe it to yourselves and to your reading community to seek the truth. I am praying for you.
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Liutas Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
@CUGrad, I agree – I hope the Tower staff does seek the truth. Right now they are looking down on those of us who would wish to change the tide of the encroaching Sharia in the West. If they would simply ask themselves, “what is the goal of Islam, vs. what is the goal of Christianity?” Did Mohammad instruct his followers to kill infidels? Yes or no? Did Christ not warn of false prophets that would come after him that were dangerous? Is there forgiveness and salvation in Islam? What happens to a Muslim that converts out of Islam? What happens to someone that converts out of Christianity? Has anyone noticed how much ‘Islamization’ has already happened in our country? It has been stepped up exponentially in the last few years and I am here to tell you, it isn’t going to stop unless we stop acting like pussies and sit back and take it. Islam is not a peaceful religion, it is a totalitarian way of life. Do you all remember when Pope Benedict was absolutely blasted for his criticism of Islam and that it wasn’t a true religion? He walked that back so that heads would literally not roll. But, imams could run around calling Jews and Christians infidels and handing out big bucks to anyone who kills an Israeli soldier – not a peep out of anyone. Again, I am SO SICK of the so-called moderate, peaceful Muslims not speaking out PUBLICLY, LOUDLY and EN MASSE against the evil. Why can’t moderate Muslims form their own lobby? The last note I will add is that taqiyya also says that Muslims can pretend to befriend non-believers for their survival. Look it up if you don’t believe me. Now, someone might say, well that is for their survival, but I would say, they can take it a step further and use it for Islam to thrive.
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CUGrad Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
@Liutas: The Tower staff does seem to have a high level of concern for what they view as harshness directed toward Muslims. This no doubt reflects their human kindness and generosity but also their conditioning to the current groupthink of moral equivalence applied to all religions and other myths like Islam is a religion of peace. What does seem lost on them are the anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-American, supremacist attitudes found in the Muslims’ comments. In the name of multicultural tolerance they are actually defending an egregiously intolerant system.
I remember Pope Benedict’s Regensburg lecture. Is that what you’re referring to? He read the words of a 14th century Byzantine emperor – an emperor who saw his great culture infiltrated, destroyed and conquered by the Muslim Ottoman empire – on Mohammed’s method of spreading Islam violently by the sword. Even though Pope Benedict had carefully couched those words in a politically correct context, they inflamed Muslim leaders who objected to the reference to Islamic violence. Muslims worldwide responded with death threats to the Pope and worse. That is some messed up dialogue: stop saying we’re violent or we’ll kill you. Muslims worldwide burned churches and attacked and killed Christians. This all happened about a year after the Danish cartoon riots when hundreds were killed and injured by Muslim protesters. Sadly, since then there has been more appeasement by the Vatican in their approach to Islam. I’ll never understand why they didn’t walk out of the Durbin II conference with the rest of the European Union when Ahmadinejad denied the Holocaust, for example.
I think I’ll close with this: A lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is still the truth even is no one believes it. God bless you.
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Liutas Reply:
October 30th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
@CUGrad, You are correct – it was Pope Benedict’s Regensburg lecture to which I was referring. Your observation that the Tower staff is clearly well-meaning but missing the mark is also correct. As for the truth, it still trumps the lie even if no one believes it. Here’s to the truth! Thank you and God bless you, too.
“Like you point out, where is the evidence that Muslim students had no involvement with Banzhaf’s suit?”
Where’s the evidence that you’re not a vampire? Let’s see it. Come on.
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