College Students Say Remembering 9/11 is Offensive to Muslims

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Why would it be offensive to Muslims? Some of the first 19 people to die in 9/11 were muslim.
 
Mary_Estelle said:
Remembering the American Revolution, the Civil War, WW11, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War or those that died to preserve freedom would be offensive to that particular student. If anyone watched Watter’s World this past week-end, could tell you, education as been so dumbed down and watered down, its pathetic and shameful. Many of our politiciians are the product of the education system. “Someone” watches over us, we pray.
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what was Watter’s World? I have never heard of it. Political correctness can also be added to the dumbing down of the education system.
 
If I were Muslim I would be a little offended by the assertion that remembering 9/11 offends me. It would suggest that Muslims support 9/11 and terrorists.
 
Whether you like him or not, I believe this is why Trump is so darn popular. His demeanor flies in the face of all this pc crapola that we witness on the college campus nowadays. Can you imagine spending 50 grand per year for your son or daughter to be indoctrinated into this mindset, and then the amount of time and effort that would be needed to deprogram them from this amount of thorough brainwashing?

Peace, Mark
 
7_Sorrows said:
what was Watter’s World? I have never heard of it. Political correctness can also be added to the dumbing down of the education system.
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Watter’s World is a news segment where the reporter goes among students, young people and even "mature people asking about history, dates, people and places that everyone should know. Questions as simple as “When was The Declaration of Independence declared?” Really simple questions that show how poor the education system has become. Now Watters has his own show on Fox on the week-ends an no longer just small segments. Interesting guy.
 
Mary_Estelle said:
Watter’s World is a news segment where the reporter goes among students, young people and even "mature people asking about history, dates, people and places that everyone should know. Questions as simple as “When was The Declaration of Independence declared?” Really simple questions that show how poor the education system has become. Now Watters has his own show on Fox on the week-ends an no longer just small segments. Interesting guy.
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ok. thanks. we don’t get 24 news anymore so I don’t get to watch FOX.
 
Undoubtedly this single absurdity will be cherry-picked and used to further defund the humanities in high education. If anything, that will be the greatest tragedy.
 
Ontheway said:
Unfortunately, not so single and not so benign. For more information, this weekend’s Wall Street Journal has this -** Closed Minds on Campus**

wsj.com/articles/closed-minds-on-campus-1448634626
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I’m well aware with how widespread such matters are. Nevertheless, it is far from unanimous. And the solution isn’t to defund them along with the rest of the liberal arts, but to actually engage them. Not to give up on them, but to debate them.
 
There’s no problem with college students being concerned about prejudice. The problem is that the “concern” is highly manipulated for political purposes, split apart from common sense and reason, and often highly prejudicial towards other groups. At the public School of Social Work where I am an alum, there is extreme emphasis on “diversity”. Yet some instructors, and very many students, express extreme hostility towards Christians, and particularly Catholics.

One instructor wrote a letter to the daily newspaper denouncing the Catholic Church because of its position on abortion. But the School also, at other times, has defended the right of Muslims to full expression of their faith, even though their position on abortion is somewhat similar. A news commenter was caught labelling the police as especially prone to racial prejudice, because so many cops are veterans. (She later apologized).

At one university there was a rally against racism; but not enough students came. So they marched into the library and confronted students there. How do they know what those students were doing, or what concerns those students in the library had? Do the students have the right to interrupt other students?
 
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