In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the tragedy wasn’t so much the killing of the father; it was the son’s bad decisions that resulted in the end killing of everyone involved: the son, the uncle, and the queen! Here at Hamline University, lots of bad decisions resulted in the tragedy. It started when Erika Lopez Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University, showed a 14-century image of the prophet Mohammed in her art class, resulting in a professor losing, as the Times puts it, “her teaching gig”; A student lost her safety. A Muslim community leader lost his focus, and the Hamlin university lost its credential. President Fayneese Miller’s blamed the media for the assault on her institution under the rubric of academic freedom. Not exactly, as is always the case, western media framed the debate as a war between backward Islam and the Modern West binary. As a Muslim and adjunct professor who taught at Hamline.
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COULD RAMADAN SAVE AMERICA!!
This week for the first time ever Muslims celebrated the holy month of Ramadan in Times Square in New York “We’re here to explain our religion to all those that don’t know what Islam is all about,” the organizer, identified as SQ, told CBS news. “Islam is a religion of peace.” He added; Now Muslims went mainstream, a Ramadan Muslim parade in New York, a city that is associated with the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Thousands of Muslims descended on the iconic New York square unapologetically celebrating their Ramadan tradition, prying the “Taraweeh” Ramdan evening prayer surrounded by the flashy gigantic Madison Avenue voluptuous ads. Here in Minneapolis, the call for prayer (Azan) is allowed for the first time in mosques during Ramadan, bringing the community together to pray freely. Since the 9/11 tragedy, Muslims have been in self cultural exile.
WHAT IS MACRON’S PROBLEM WITH ISLAM AND MUSLIMS!!
“What is Macron’s problem with Islam and Muslims? He needs mental health treatment,” Turkish President Erdogan said last Saturday in reaction to the French president hateful Islamophobic comments declaring that Islam is in crisis and problematic and needs to be contained. He later supported the publishing of the Prophet Mohammed insulting Charlie Hebdo cartoons under the pretext of freedom of expression. “Our history is one of a battle against tyranny and anaticism. We will continue,” Macron tweeted in three languages, French, English, and Arabic.! And the racist language, I may add. Macron, Unfortunately, left out the French colonial fascist history in Africa, north,
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