Bigotry on college campus?

As a student awhile back, I had a couple of teachers with agendas, who graded students on criteria that bordered on intimidation when their opinion backed by references differed with that of the instructor. It was NOT a nice feeling to get a 'C' on a paper simply because the paper was not parroting the instructor's opinion on a topic such as current events (a current war, abortion, etc).

Nor to be mocked by both the instructor and fellow classmates for holding a differing opinion.

It was in those classes that I began to see that MANY schools had instructors of a much more liberal persuasion that pushed their views, rather than taught a class. In our own Faith, a prime example would be theologians that teach things not in line with the Church teachings (as Fr Charles Curran and other theologians did and do). A recent case in Denver has made headlines when a professor (Ward Churchill) at the University of Colorado wrote an essay that said that victims of the 9/11 disaster were like the Nazi, Adolph Eichman. In the passing months, much has been written and spoken about his other beliefs, and about his falsification of his own ethnic background, plagiarism, and possibly even his credentials.

But he is not the only professor whose very liberal views are pushed on our young students. I have written about propaganda before, and it happens on our college campuses a lot in my lifetime (even 'Catholic' colleges that are Catholic in name only)....

I am extremely concerned about what I have been reading about Columbia University recently, also. Other schools seem to have similar problems about Middle East studies and other topics, which is part of the reason that Students for Academic Freedom (SAF), and Parents and Students for Academic Freedom (K-12) (PSAF) exist . SAF was founded by David Horowitz "to fight for academic diversity on America's college campuses."

Long ago, I began to study WWII, especially the European aspect, and the beginnings of the founding of modern Israel as a country. In the course of my reading on the subject, I learned that many children in the Middle East are not taught that Israel even exists as a nation, which was bad enough. But what is happening here in the USA, at many colleges, but especially at Columbia University is enough to make me very glad that I could not afford to send my children to college. When they go, and have to pay for it themselves, as I did, they will not stand for having to pay for this kind of 'education', any more than I would.

But there ARE courageous people like Brigitte Gabriel who speak truth, regardless of what is taught at Columbia University! Thank God for her bravery. And she calls what is happening EXACTLY what it is....Indoctrination! She even uses the term Hate-motivated indoctrination.

Brigitte Gabriel grew up in Lebanon and is an Arab raised under the same kind of indoctrination that Professor Massad of Columbia University is teaching, and she disputes it vehemently in her talk from March, 2005 given there. She also spoke at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out, held Thursday, October 14, 2004.

Nat Hentoff ( other articles on the subject are here and here ), and others, have also written about Columbia University.

It is time that this kind of 'education' STOPS. This same kind of thing is happening in grade school and high schools all the time, with class trips to DC for first graders to protest things that the teacher stands for (previously written about somewhere deep in my blog...will link to it when I find it) to a CA seventh grade course on Islam (note, no one can offer any course on Judaism or Catholicism/Christianity, now can they? ESPECIALLY making them pray real prayers, dress in costume, choose Jewish or Catholic saint's names, etc)

This is not education. It is proselytizing, indoctrinating, and intimidating. And how MANY students are affected by this kind of 'education' ? ONE teacher can infect a multitude of students, as we have witnessed in the many years that Fr Curran was allowed to teach at our Catholic University, and those students go on to teach/influence/infect others....