Christians are given the boot on Christian college campus while Islam is promoted.
By de Andréa
The Alliance Defense Fund has written a letter to a "Christian" college asking officials there to reconsider their decision to ban several Christian student organizations because the groups are too evangelical.
Georgetown University in Washington DC, which boasts a tradition of more than 200 years of Jesuit and Catholic teachings, recently sent letters to half a dozen Christian organizations telling them they no longer are welcome.
"Now I've seen derecognizing letters before, but this one takes the cake," David French, the senior legal counsel for the ADF, said of the Georgetown University decision. "Blessings and may God's peace be on you! … Now get off the *+@#^_! campus!"
Although there has been no satisfactory explanation for the sudden change in school policy, but those in a position to know best, say the groups, such as InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, are too Christian.
Or is it just possible that influence from Muslim pressure groups such as CAIR (Counsel on American Islamic Relations) who incidentally have made threats on my life, and MATF (Muslim Accommodations Task Force) with emphasis on the FORCE, have had at least something to do with the university’s decision. Both of these organizations have ties to Wahhabist terrorist groups.
By de Andréa
The Alliance Defense Fund has written a letter to a "Christian" college asking officials there to reconsider their decision to ban several Christian student organizations because the groups are too evangelical.
Georgetown University in Washington DC, which boasts a tradition of more than 200 years of Jesuit and Catholic teachings, recently sent letters to half a dozen Christian organizations telling them they no longer are welcome.
"Now I've seen derecognizing letters before, but this one takes the cake," David French, the senior legal counsel for the ADF, said of the Georgetown University decision. "Blessings and may God's peace be on you! … Now get off the *+@#^_! campus!"
Although there has been no satisfactory explanation for the sudden change in school policy, but those in a position to know best, say the groups, such as InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, are too Christian.
Or is it just possible that influence from Muslim pressure groups such as CAIR (Counsel on American Islamic Relations) who incidentally have made threats on my life, and MATF (Muslim Accommodations Task Force) with emphasis on the FORCE, have had at least something to do with the university’s decision. Both of these organizations have ties to Wahhabist terrorist groups.
Georgetown tossed these Christian groups out, but left the Muslim Student Alliance intact. I find it at least interesting that this Christian college is giving more religious freedom to Muslims than to Christians. *Refer to my previous article titled MORE ON INDOCTRINATION AND ISLAMIC INFILTRATION April 24 2007
Christian groups say they simply want "to have a place at the table" with other religious groups.
The ADF letter to John DeGioia, the president, and Rev. Timothy S. Godfrey, S.J., a campus ministry leader, and others asked them to correct the "discriminatory decision by the school's Office of Campus Ministries. “ OCM's actions completely betray the goals, ideals, and values that have given Georgetown University the reputation for excellence it enjoys today," the letter said.
They also highlight a disturbing double standard when compared to the way that the University treats Muslim student organizations.
The letter noted that Georgetown advertises that it believes "serious and sustained" discourse among people of differing faiths promotes understanding. However, the difference between its statements and its actions is "a sizeable credibility gap".
That "gap" expands when the university's treatment of Muslim organizations is added. One group is set up to "encourage" and is dedicated to "development and growth of the school's Muslim community," and yet Christian evangelicals are banned.
“The schools action has also violated its own free speech policy and student organization policy”, the letter notes. Ironically, the school recently hosted K. Anthony Appiah in an address sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He noted that religious differences are "made easier if there is an ongoing, respectful, cosmopolitan conversation between adherents of different religious traditions."
French said the university, which is private, has the right to dictate who it wants on campus, but essentially it is staging a "bait-and-switch" with students and parents by proclaiming that they will enjoy "full religious freedom" on campus, when they won't, the school pitch is "Come and spend your $120,000 and your child will enjoy the full range of First Amendment rights," However, when the students arrive, the school has "yanked some of those critical rights."
In a commentary at PhiBetaCons.NationalReview.com, French said once again, "it appears that a modern liberal university's commitment to diversity, tolerance, and the free exchange of ideas does not extend to evangelical Christians."
The brush-off letter from the university starts: "Blessings and may God's peace be upon you!" but deteriorates shortly thereafter to: "Protestant Ministry has decided to move in another direction.” As a result, Georgetown said, "Your ministries will no longer be allowed to hold any activity or presence (i.e. bible (sic) studies, retreats with Georgetown students, Mid-week (sic) worship services, fellowship events, move-in assistance, SAC Fair, etc.) on campus."
Further, the school told the ministry organizations, "All websites linking your ministries to a presence at Georgetown University will need to be modified to reflect the terminated relationship. Your ministries are not to publicize in any literature, media, advertisement, etc. that Georgetown University is or will be an active ministry site for your religion/ministry/church/denomination."
French said the letter from the ADF's Center for Academic Freedom finishes with a request that the university now live up to the moral values it says it has been teaching.
"ADF recognizes that Georgetown University is a private institution and that it is not bound by the constitutional principles detailed above. It is, however, bound by the moral values it has long proclaimed in its own promises and policies. There is no conceivable harm to the University in granting the Affiliated Ministries the same rights and access given to Muslim organizations."
"The real problem at Georgetown is the same problem that has plagued campuses across the country: an increasing intolerance for religious students and student groups (regardless of whether they are Catholic or Protestant) who take the Bible seriously and seek to live their lives under the authority of Scripture," French said in a blog on the ADF site.
"In the many years I've spent defending Christians on campus, I've never seen a campus, private or public, eject a Christian student group from campus that followed campus orthodoxy on the relevant social and religious issues of the day."
Georgetown's explanation has varied: It told the groups in the letter it was going a "different direction.” Then it told subsequent news reports that there was a failure in "communication.” It also has said, through spokesman Erik Smulson that the chaplaincy recently was reorganized and it wanted more control over ministries on campus.
THE BOTTOM LINE: What the ADF and the Georgetown University staff fails to address is the fact that the Muslim group on campus is by their own philosophy and Quranic Sharia law, totally intolerant of any other religion. As on all other college campuses where there is a significant number of Muslims, they impose their religious beliefs and rituals on the entire campus populous.
(Again refer to a previous article titled MORE ON INDOCTRINATION AND ISLAMIC INFILTRATION April 24, 2007.)
One cannot help but recognize that the intolerant philosophy of Islam has not only had an overwhelming influence on public collages and universities throughout the country, but has now infiltrated into those institutions that identify themselves as “Christian” colleges as well. May God help us.
After 17 years of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies I knew that this type of infiltrational warfare was part of the Islamic agenda of world Conquest, I just didn’t dream in my worst nightmare, that it would happen in America, and in a so-called “Christian organization”, and then; in my life time.
This is all going to fast for my slow and laidback lifestyle. Because of the deterioration of moral values as well as academic standards in public education/indoctrinational institutions, I have been promoting private/Christian education. And now even a 200 year old Christian university may have given in to Tolerant/Intolerant Political Correct Pressures as well as the demonic pressure of Islam.
The only thing left is to thoroughly check out one’s educational institution, looking for the rats that may lurk just under the veneer ready to pounce on your unsuspecting child. Or another fast growing alternative, especially in the case of primary school and even high school, is to consider home schooling.
Note: Where Islam “is”; there is no room for anyone else, read the Quran, it’s in there…
de Andréa
Christian groups say they simply want "to have a place at the table" with other religious groups.
The ADF letter to John DeGioia, the president, and Rev. Timothy S. Godfrey, S.J., a campus ministry leader, and others asked them to correct the "discriminatory decision by the school's Office of Campus Ministries. “ OCM's actions completely betray the goals, ideals, and values that have given Georgetown University the reputation for excellence it enjoys today," the letter said.
They also highlight a disturbing double standard when compared to the way that the University treats Muslim student organizations.
The letter noted that Georgetown advertises that it believes "serious and sustained" discourse among people of differing faiths promotes understanding. However, the difference between its statements and its actions is "a sizeable credibility gap".
That "gap" expands when the university's treatment of Muslim organizations is added. One group is set up to "encourage" and is dedicated to "development and growth of the school's Muslim community," and yet Christian evangelicals are banned.
“The schools action has also violated its own free speech policy and student organization policy”, the letter notes. Ironically, the school recently hosted K. Anthony Appiah in an address sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He noted that religious differences are "made easier if there is an ongoing, respectful, cosmopolitan conversation between adherents of different religious traditions."
French said the university, which is private, has the right to dictate who it wants on campus, but essentially it is staging a "bait-and-switch" with students and parents by proclaiming that they will enjoy "full religious freedom" on campus, when they won't, the school pitch is "Come and spend your $120,000 and your child will enjoy the full range of First Amendment rights," However, when the students arrive, the school has "yanked some of those critical rights."
In a commentary at PhiBetaCons.NationalReview.com, French said once again, "it appears that a modern liberal university's commitment to diversity, tolerance, and the free exchange of ideas does not extend to evangelical Christians."
The brush-off letter from the university starts: "Blessings and may God's peace be upon you!" but deteriorates shortly thereafter to: "Protestant Ministry has decided to move in another direction.” As a result, Georgetown said, "Your ministries will no longer be allowed to hold any activity or presence (i.e. bible (sic) studies, retreats with Georgetown students, Mid-week (sic) worship services, fellowship events, move-in assistance, SAC Fair, etc.) on campus."
Further, the school told the ministry organizations, "All websites linking your ministries to a presence at Georgetown University will need to be modified to reflect the terminated relationship. Your ministries are not to publicize in any literature, media, advertisement, etc. that Georgetown University is or will be an active ministry site for your religion/ministry/church/denomination."
French said the letter from the ADF's Center for Academic Freedom finishes with a request that the university now live up to the moral values it says it has been teaching.
"ADF recognizes that Georgetown University is a private institution and that it is not bound by the constitutional principles detailed above. It is, however, bound by the moral values it has long proclaimed in its own promises and policies. There is no conceivable harm to the University in granting the Affiliated Ministries the same rights and access given to Muslim organizations."
"The real problem at Georgetown is the same problem that has plagued campuses across the country: an increasing intolerance for religious students and student groups (regardless of whether they are Catholic or Protestant) who take the Bible seriously and seek to live their lives under the authority of Scripture," French said in a blog on the ADF site.
"In the many years I've spent defending Christians on campus, I've never seen a campus, private or public, eject a Christian student group from campus that followed campus orthodoxy on the relevant social and religious issues of the day."
Georgetown's explanation has varied: It told the groups in the letter it was going a "different direction.” Then it told subsequent news reports that there was a failure in "communication.” It also has said, through spokesman Erik Smulson that the chaplaincy recently was reorganized and it wanted more control over ministries on campus.
THE BOTTOM LINE: What the ADF and the Georgetown University staff fails to address is the fact that the Muslim group on campus is by their own philosophy and Quranic Sharia law, totally intolerant of any other religion. As on all other college campuses where there is a significant number of Muslims, they impose their religious beliefs and rituals on the entire campus populous.
(Again refer to a previous article titled MORE ON INDOCTRINATION AND ISLAMIC INFILTRATION April 24, 2007.)
One cannot help but recognize that the intolerant philosophy of Islam has not only had an overwhelming influence on public collages and universities throughout the country, but has now infiltrated into those institutions that identify themselves as “Christian” colleges as well. May God help us.
After 17 years of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies I knew that this type of infiltrational warfare was part of the Islamic agenda of world Conquest, I just didn’t dream in my worst nightmare, that it would happen in America, and in a so-called “Christian organization”, and then; in my life time.
This is all going to fast for my slow and laidback lifestyle. Because of the deterioration of moral values as well as academic standards in public education/indoctrinational institutions, I have been promoting private/Christian education. And now even a 200 year old Christian university may have given in to Tolerant/Intolerant Political Correct Pressures as well as the demonic pressure of Islam.
The only thing left is to thoroughly check out one’s educational institution, looking for the rats that may lurk just under the veneer ready to pounce on your unsuspecting child. Or another fast growing alternative, especially in the case of primary school and even high school, is to consider home schooling.
Note: Where Islam “is”; there is no room for anyone else, read the Quran, it’s in there…
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You might be interested to know that InterVarsity and other ministries have been invited back to Georgetown this year:
http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=24934
http://intervarsity.org/news/intervarsity-reaffiliated-at-georgetown-university
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