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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Muslim college co-founded by anti-Israel firebrand receives accreditation
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Zaytuna College--which was co-founded by Hatem Bazian, a controversial critic of Israel who also started Students for Justice in Palestine -- has become the first accredited Muslim college in the United States. (Zaytuna.org)
A California school co-founded by a firebrand who once called for an "intifada" in the U.S. has become the nation's first accredited Muslim college.
Zaytuna College, which operates out of two rented buildings in Berkeley, Calif., and had an enrollment of 30 in 2013, was officially accredited earlier this week by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges—one of the six academic organizations responsible for authorizing public and private colleges and universities in the United States. The certification means the school can apply for various federal and private grants, issue visas to international students and allow students to transfer credits to or from other accredited schools.
“Five years ago, we introduced an undergraduate liberal arts program inspired by the idea of restoring the holistic education that had been offered in the great teaching centers of Islamic civilization,” co-founder and President Hamza Yusuf stated in an open letter on the school’s website on Monday. “Today, Zaytuna’s accreditation roots this vision in a reality recognized within American higher education. It gives our community its first accredited academic address in the United States. And we hope, God willing, that there will be more such Muslim colleges and universities to come.”
“I am curious to know what level degrees Zaytuna will be allowed to offer, since its course catalog is limited and does not encompass the breadth of a standard liberal arts education.”
- Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, Center for Islamic Pluralism
The school offers one Bachelor of Arts, in Islamic Law and Theology. Course offerings include various courses on Islamic law, Introduction to the Koran, Ethics, Mathematics and History of the United States.
Yusuf, an Islamic Studies advisor at both Stanford University and University of California Berkeley, is known for being an outspoken critic of extremism. He drew a death decree from ISIS earlier this year for condemning the Charlie Hebdo massacre, in which workers at a French satirical magazine were killed by Islamist fanatics for publishing caricatures of Prophet Mohammad.
But the school's other co-founder, Hatem Bazian, who serves as the school’s chairman of academic affairs, has been accused of whipping up anti-Semitism on campuses across the nation through another organization he helped establish, the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine. And at an April, 2004, rally in San Francisco in support of the Iraqi insurgency, Bazian appeared to call for an uprising in the U.S.
"Are you angry?" Bazian shouted to protesters. "Well, we've been watching intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don't have an intifada in this country? …and it's about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know every — they’re gonna say some Palestinian being too radical — well, you haven't seen radicalism yet!"
Critics say any school associated with Bazian, who is a senior lecturer at University of California Berkeley, is suspect.
“He’s an anti-Israel activist and he uses academia to further his agenda,” Nonie Darwish, founder of Arabs for Israel and a human rights advocate, told FoxNews.com.
Neither Bazian nor other Zaytuna officials responded to multiple requests for comment.
Some critics who monitor higher education say the idea of a Muslim-centric school is fine in principle. But they are wary of Bazian's links to Students for Justice in Palestine.
"The blend between education and religion is nothing new, Caleb Bonham, editor-in-chief of higher education blog CampusReform.Org, told FoxNews.com. “College is supposed to be a time where the free exchange of ideas is explored. America, throughout our history, has encouraged diversity of thought and the freedom to worship as one desires.
"But Students for Justice in Palestine has proven itself to be an anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli organization since its founding," he added. "Our campuses must remain bastions of freedom of expression. I hope the founders uphold the principles of freedom that are inherent to all men and women."
The school, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2008, received more than $11 million in contributions and grants from 2011 to 2012. However, specific donors were not listed on 990 forms filed with the IRS and the school's website only mentions 12,000 donors without any further detail.
The Zaytuna College website details a $7 million plan to build a new campus, a project that includes the recent purchase of a new building, but was put on hold until the accreditation came. According to officials for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, any academic institution that gains accreditation becomes qualified to distribute federal aid to its students.
“Zaytuna may elect to do this, though they are also seeking for their students to graduate without owing debt,” Richard Winn, senior vice president of the WASC Senior College and University Commission said in a statement to FoxNews.com.
While Zaytuna and its students may benefit from the accreditation, the fact that the school offers only one degree program has some questioning the decision.
“I am surprised that Zaytuna College has received accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges,” Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, said in a statement to FoxNews.com. “I am curious to know what level degrees Zaytuna will be allowed to offer, since its course catalog is limited and does not encompass the breadth of a standard liberal arts education.”
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Suspicious fires destroyed Al Sharpton's financial records not once but - TWICE
Maybe he should call Hillary. She's looking for a fire to destroy some servers.
- Reverend Al Sharpton was running for office at the time of both of the fires
- One broke out below New York offices in 1997 as he was running for mayor
- The second happened in 2003 at the offices of his National Action Network
- Report suggests fires destroyed key financial records of civil rights activist
By Julian Robinson for MailOnline
Published: 08:21 EST, 12 March 2015 | Updated: 09:17 EST, 12 March 2015
Suspicious fires twice destroyed financial records of Reverend Al Sharpton (pictured)
Suspicious fires twice destroyed the financial records of Reverend Al Sharpton, a report has claimed.
The civil rights activist was running for office at the time of the fires, which were six years apart and in separate buildings in New York.
It has been reported that Sharpton subsequently failed to comply with tax and campaign filing requirements.
According to the National Review Online, the first fire happened in 1997 as Sharpton was running for mayor while the second happened while he was running for president in 2003. The fires destroyed 'critical financial records', the report said.
The first blaze, on April 10, 1997 - five days before Tax Day - started in a hair and nail salon below Sharpton's headquarters at West 125th Street in New York and investigators treated it as an arson/explosion case.
At the time, the Reverend's spokesman said the campaign had lost its 'entire Manhattan operation' while the mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani, said the investigation centred on the salon rather than Sharpton's campaign
The National Review reports that Sharpton said he was unable to file certain financial documents and blamed the fire for the destruction of the records.
On January 23, 2003, a fire caused extensive damage in the offices of his non-profit organisation National Action Network on Madison Avenue. It happened a day after Sharpton submitted documents to create a presidential exploratory committee, the website reports.
Investigators initially treated the blaze as suspicious but later put it down to 'NFA (Not Fully Ascertained) – heat from electrical equipment'.
But National Review Online reports that 'significant oddities' surrounded the fire and the investigation.
The civil rights activist (pictured) was running for office at the time of the fires, which were six years apart and in separate buildings in New York
It quotes supervising fire marshal, James Kelty, who attended the scene, as saying that he found it 'unusual' when he was unexpectedly relieved from investigating the blaze.
When Mr Kelty was told that the report into the fire was only six pages long with 38 pictures from the scene, he said that such a document would generally be 'much more exhaustive' given Sharpton's high profile.
The website also quotes sources about one of Sharpton's former employees J. D. Livingston.
It says Mr Livingston, who immigrated to the United States from Guyana, was first on the scene as the fire took hold.
The report says Livingston claimed he was in a reception room when the fire broke out but that a major fire had developed by the time fire crews arrived.
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton is pictured in April last year with US President Barack Obama
Mr Kelty is quoted as saying that this was 'odd' and 'not normal fire behaviour'. Mr Livingston is said to have had Sharpton's lawyer with him when he was speaking to authorities.
The report says that the maintenance man, who died in 2014, had, at some point, been living in the US illegally.
In an interview with the National Review Online, Sharpton confirmed that Mr Livingston had done some 'side work' with him, but dismissed allegations he was paying him 'under the table'.
When asked whether the fires were a case of bad luck, NRO quotes Sharpton as saying: 'I would say that you could speak to people that would certainly, whoever they are, could have their views.'
Friday, March 13, 2015
The Clinton Chronicles
Bill and his team setting up servers in the basement of his NY home for Hillary's secret email accounts and to send his two emails. The motivation...a 24X24 inch custom iPad including the iPorn app already installed... a gift from Jeffery Epstein.
Al if we hide the wires up here I don't think anyone will find out about it.
Bill sending his 3rd email...
Don't worry honey I got you covered
She was so confident she couldn't resist raking Bush over the coals.
Video 107
But then.. a few years later...Hillary finds out her secret email accounts are not so secret.
Her two supporters are aghast.
She questions Bill. What is he doing!!!
"It depends on what is.. is?"
Seems like he got a little sidetracked...
Meanwhile... at Louis Tussaud's Waxworks in Niagara Falls another depricktion of the Clinton's makes its debut.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Bill Clinton: I've Only Sent Two Emails In My Life
During Hillary's email scandal this side story broke. Odd to say the least.
Think about it...how many emails have you sent and received during your lifetime? Countless right?
I find this story inconceivable even for a Clinton. In his entire life he has sent only two emails even through he was once a governor and a former two term president? One of the emails he claims he sent went to John Glenn (now 93). Wonder if he remembers it? Another was an obscure email sent to American service members abroad while he was serving as President. Okay fine. But it's just beyond one's comprehension there isn't a LITANY of emails, at the very least, starting with Monica. What is particularly hard to swallow (maybe a bad choice of words)... during the impeachment proceedings between Clinton, his attorneys, Ken Star... no emails were exchanged? The former President claims he set up a domain for his staff, presidentclinton.com, after leaving office but doesn't use email himself?
I think these two emails would be more in line with the one's actually sent.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2584309/Bill-Clinton-identified-lawsuit-against-former-friend-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-regular-orgies-Caribbean-compound-former-president-visited-multiple-times.html
The first one was to his friend Jeffery Epstein wanting to have sex with under age girls on his orgy island.
The second was to deny the first existed.
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