[Dean's World] Dean: Al Qasemi College

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Al Qasemi College
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1158779925.shtml


   Quoted:

     Al Qasemi College , which was founded in 1989 as the first
     institute of Islamic higher education in Israel, is trying to
     export revolutionary openness and liberalism to the wider Islamic
     world, leaders of the faculty told educators, Jewish leaders, and
     local Muslims during a four-day visit to the Boston area that ended
     yesterday.

     Speaking at campuses, mosques, and the homes of Muslims, the Al
     Qasemi faculty said that it is time for Muslims to quit blaming
     others and examine their own responsibility for the troubles of
     Islamic civilization; time for Arab Israelis to call themselves
     Israelis, not Palestinians; and, above all, time for women to have
     full equality with men in the Muslim world.

   And:

     Enrollment in the school has increased steadily, from 40 students
     in 1989 to 1,600 students today. And it could be much larger if the
     school's administration wanted it to be, according to Essawi. The
     college accepts only about one in eight applicants.

     Al Qasemi primarily educates teachers for Arab schools in Israel.
     It also trains Arab women for technology-based careers such as
     engineering that are difficult for them to pursue because of the
     expectations of the traditional communities in which the women are
     raised.

     Essawi and 10 members of the Al Qasemi faculty spoke with faculty
     at Hebrew College and at Harvard University. They met Boston-area
     Muslims at Friday prayers at the mosque of Islamic Center of Boston
     , in Wayland, and at an organized discussion Saturday night at the
     Westwood home of a Muslim participant in the region's oldest
     Muslim-Jewish dialogue group.

   And:

     Faculty at Hebrew College who met the visitors said they were
     impressed by the Israeli Arabs' views on Islam and their
     willingness to go against conventional thinking.

     ``The major change that we need" in Jewish-Muslim relations ``must
     start with what children are taught," said Rabbi Or Rose ,
     instructor in rabbinic studies at Hebrew College.

     ``They are very brave to be doing this in the hotbed of the Middle
     East," he added.

     He said faculty members at the Newton school are discussing the
     possibility that they and the school's rabbinical candidates might
     visit and study with the Israeli Muslim faculty when the candidates
     go to Israel before ordination.

   Probably they're just practicing "Al-Taqiyya" and waiting for their
   chance to let their pre-programmed compulsion to kill take them over.
   Either that or they're deep in the process of divorcing themselves
   from the evil, wicked wicked pervert fiend devil Mohammed. Yeah,
   that's it, that's the ticket.

   Anyway, read the rest of the story of the futile dialogue with the
   deceitful bloodthirsty Muhammed-loving killbots [1]right here.

   (Thanks again, [2]Martin.)

References

   1. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/18/muslims_from_israel_bring_fresh_views_to_hub/?p1=email_to_a_friend
   2. http://www.tabletumlnews.com/