A former Muslim terrorist who became a Christian says he won't be intimidated by a Muslim advocacy group that is up in arms over a recent appearance he and several colleagues made at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem, and Zachariah Anani were invited to speak at the Colorado Springs school on the topic of dismantling terrorism. Their appearance was part of a weeklong conference on terrorism that was organized by Academy cadets under the auspices of the political science department.
 
But even before Wednesday's appearance, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) demanded that the school include faithful Muslims to balance the presentation -- claiming the three speakers use hateful rhetoric against Islam. "Their entire world view is based on the idea that Islam is evil," Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR spokesman, told the New York Times. "We want to provide a balancing perspective to their hate speech."
 
But Walid Shoebat says it was an Islamic student sent by CAIR who displayed hate. "One of our colleagues, Kamal Saleem, after finishing speaking was approached by Omar Khalifa, a Palestinian student, [who] gave him a death threat," says Shoebat. "And there was a report, of course, and investigation over this whole issue."
 
Shoebat says this is not the Middle East. "We don't deserve to get death threats from Muslims who are coming here as students and who are immigrating to this country to try to run this country the way they want back in the Middle East," he argues. "This is the United States of America, and we are entitled to free speech."
 
According to Shoebat, authorities are looking into the situation, but he does not know what action might be taken.
 
The New York Times also reports that a group known as Members of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation was critical of the three former Muslims speaking on campus, saying it was "typical" of the Academy to invite "born-again Christians to address cadets on terrorism rather than experts who could teach students about the Middle East." The group is suing the federal government to combat what it considers creeping evangelism in the armed forces.
 
Reportedly, Mr. Anani did tell students during his talk that converting from Islam to Christianity saved his life.

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Comment from Reformed Faith:

Well, DUH. Of course they're going to try and use our own legal system against us! They want us to be silent so they can permeate our culture so much that our American culture and our Christian spiritual heritage will be drowned under the muck of their oppression. 

Great - now how about eliminating this type of ideological indoctrination in the rest of the country's school systems? This is nothing more than an attempt by secular ideologues to take the children we've raised according to Judeo-Christian beliefs and turn them into obedient, mindless, worker robots... while we foot their bill. Outrageous. 

It would be interesting to be able to discover if this is going on in other colleges, especially in those funded by the state. 

Mrs. P.

Victory at University of Delaware

University President Ends Mandatory Ideological Reeducation Program

November 2, 2007

FIRE Press Release

(Article Reprinted from Press Release.)

"If you think the hordes of easily terrified, mindless, fundamentalist, evangelical Christian lemmings have been bad for the sould of this country, just wait."  San Fransisco Chronicle, 10/24/07

ALEXANDRIA,VA–

   On Wednesday, October 24, the San Francisco Chronicle considered it thought  provoking to run a rant by one of it's liberal columnists about the state of todays teenagers.Columnist Mark Morford criticizes the government for churning out students with a “decline in overall acumen.” But he  also takes a shot at Christians as “bad for the soul of this country.”

The MRC’s Culture and Media Institute Director Robert Knight is appalled by Morford’s assumption that Christianity is killing America.

“Mr.Morford rails against miseducation in the public  schools, but then inexplicably and gratuitously takes a vicious jab at Christians, calling them ‘lemmings.’  His remark is right down there with the notorious statement by the Washington Post’s Michael Weiskopf that Christians are ‘poor, uneducated and easy to command.’ Why has the Chronicle given  a platform to someone who exhibits the same contempt and bigotry toward Christians?

“Morford also seems confused. He laments the loss of personal responsibility, and then attacks the group that is trying to live up to that all-American virtue. It’s not the Christians who have been turning public schools away from academics and toward ‘feel-good’ self-esteem centers; it’s the National Education Association and associated left wing groups who do not speak for all teachers but act as if they do,” Knight said.

CMI’s Senior Writer, Kristen Fyfe, is equally perturbed by Morford’s tirade:

“Perhaps if Morford traveled outside the liberal enclave of San Francisco, where the city grants permits for fairs celebrating sadistic sex on public streets but denies the Marines permission to film a commercial on those same city streets, and kicks the Boy Scouts out of the schools, they’d see a different American teen, ” stated Kristen Fyfe. 

“Maybe if teachers and parents held kids accountable for making the most of their education, instead of blaming the government and the ‘power elite,’ the kids would be a little less despondent.”

http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/