The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed another appeal in the (uber-liberal) 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a decision dismissing a case against the Maricopa Community College District and one of its professors for teaching material that the group claims condemns Islam.
AZ Central The Scottsdale professor, Nicholas Damask, and the college came under harsh criticism in May when one of his students, Mohamed Sabra, posted three of the professor’s quiz questions on social media.
Damask, a tenured professor who has been teaching at the college for 23 years, said in a phone interview that the firestorm stemmed from one student who expressed his objection to the questions. The student said he was sick to his stomach, because “you offended my religion,” or words to that effect.
The questions frame terrorism as a mandate of Islam, leaving no room for interpretation, according to the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The appeal details objections to these questions, after Sabra received wrong marks for stating terrorism in Islam is “always forbidden.”
“Damask misquotes and misuses [quotes] in order to show a distorted message of Islam in his classroom which is on political science, not religion,” said Imam Omar Tawil from the Islamic Community Center of Tempe in a CAIR video press release.
Judge Susan Brnovich dismissed the case on Tuesday, Aug. 18 saying Damask’s course did not inhibit Sabra’s personal worship in any way.
The video release also references a multiple-choice question that asks the reader to define “contemporary terrorism.” The choice options are communist/left-wing, Mormon, fascist/right-wing, or Islamic.
“If there was such a thing as Mormon terrorism and Southern Baptist terrorism, we would have a unit on that, too,” Damask said in a May interview with The Arizona Republic. “But we don’t, so we don’t spend any time talking about that.”
Following the social media posts, the school posted an apology to their social media page, leading to a crusade of comments demanding Damask apologize or resign. It’s appeasing a foreign mob,” Damask said to The Arizona Republic in May. “I’ll never apologize for teaching the content that I am, or the manner in which I’m teaching it.” (My HERO!)
Professor Nicholas Damask, a popular political science professor at Scottsdale Community College, has won a major victory for academic freedom, after the college publicly chastised him, in response to criticism and death threats he received on social media for quiz questions he wrote that connected Islam to terrorism.
AZ Central The Scottsdale Community College professor who was accused of teaching material that condemned Islam will receive $155,000 after reaching a settlement with the Maricopa Community College District.
Professor Nicholas Damask sent the district a notice of claim in October after a lawsuit against him and the college was dismissed. The claim says the professor’s reputation, as well as his and his family’s safety, was jeopardized when the district failed to publicly defend his academic freedom.
Scottsdale Community College officials initially responded to the social media firestorm by apologizing and saying the quiz questions were inaccurate and inappropriate. The larger Maricopa County Community College District quickly stepped in, though, and criticized the rush to judge the professor and not fully consider his right’s to academic freedom.
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
Professor Damask certainly has courage to tell the ugly, fascist truth about islame in a world full of liars about same.
Jack Rider says
I wish that there was a way to take the information and substance of his course both nationwide and international. The general public needs to know!
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
Fascists always fear the truth. The Nazis tried to keep their concentration/murder camps secret and the moslames want to keep their current worldwide persecution/oppression/rape/forcible marriage/forcible conversion/slaughter of the kafir a secret as well.
Az gal says
Islam is a pile of shit. Eat it, CAIR.
Ramez says
I wish all Christian ladies hated islam and Moslems like you do, Ma’am! God bless you and yours! 😍
DavidW says
Those who were offended should use their “truth” words to make the necessary arguments that the professor was wrong (using facts to refute the offensive questions). The student’s apparent response showed that neither the student nor CAIR could accurately refute what the professor taught which reduced their arguments to nothing more than “their feelings being hurt (by the truth).”
Linda Rivera says
Rabid American haters, anti white racists, supremacists, Muslim CAIR God haters are ENRAGED that the WONDERFUL, courageous, highly ethical, extremely patriotic professor OBEYED God and told the truth about Islam.
Give the wonderful professor a Freedom Award and Medal!
MuhahahahahahahahahaMAD says
In a sane world he would be rewarded, but the “higher” educational system of the USA is rotten and corrupted by islamic petrodollars.