MUST READ: MOLLYCODDLING ISLAM & DAWAH IN BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY

Mollycoddling Islam and Dawah in Buena Vista University
by Denis Schulz


Eric Hoffer once said there was no such thing as an empty head because an empty head was already stuffed with rubbish. Perhaps. Hoffer was being kind—he could have said garbage. How it got there is another matter. If educators agreed with Hoffer they could close up shop and go home; they haven’t, so there must be a lot of empty heads out there in the fruited plains—hundreds, thousands, millions even, to keep the academic turnstiles whirring at a merry pace. From the mega-campuses at Columbus, Ohio, and East Lansing, Michigan, to the Ivy League, on down to Buena Vista University at Storm Lake, Iowa, there are lots of empty heads to be stuffed with what generally passes for knowledge. Knowledge, of course, can be almost anything so the question is what kind of knowledge should be shoveled into the vast landfills between Potsy’s and Ralph Malph’s ears. Should it be life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the Ten Commandments, the Federalist Papers, Milton Friedman’s America? Is someone dreaming? How about—as is more likely—another heaping helping of multiculturalism, larded with enough religious pluralism to bring tears to the eyes of John Esposito, Nihad Awad and Hussein Ibish? Sure, why not? That’s where Buena Vista University come in, and it wasn’t Zachary Taylor's idea either.

Case in point: they held a Philosophy Tea at Wood House at Buena Vista University last week. It was a great idea. Philosophy is a wonderful thing. It’s so Joe College. Everybody gets to think great thoughts and nobody has to dress up in a toga and make like Socrates. The subject was Jihad and Human Rights. Courtney McGarry, a junior, and one of the tea’s sponsors, explained: “I chose to add Jihad to the philosophy tea because it is such a controversial topic after 9/11,” she said. “It’s misconceptions that give Muslims around the world bad stereotypes and I wanted to try to fight those stereotypes.” Courtney must have been in the 10th grade when the Jihadists slammed into the Twin Towers—an impressionable age. Since 9/11, Kollege Kampus ameriKa (the Kollegiate KKK) has been awash in misconceptions and negative stereotypes, but it’s not Muslims who are on the receiving end of a fairly well organized campaign of vilification, it’s George W. Bush and the Republican Party. Eric Hoffer would cry if he could see how much rubbish has piled up and continues to pile up in those empty heads.

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Pertinent Links:

1) Mollycoddling Islam and Dawah in Buena Vista University