Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke program portrays Islam too positively

[RandySF]

The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.

The Education Department wrote in an Aug. 29 letter to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies that the program disproportionately portrays "the positive aspects of Islam." The agency requested they amend the program by Sept. 22 or lose a grant they've been receiving for almost a decade, The Associated Press reported.

The National Resource Center provides grants to programs that support foreign language learning.

The Education Department said in its letter that foreign language and national security have "taken a back seat to other priorities" that have "little or no relevance" to the objectives of the grant.

The Education Department wrote that the program places "a considerable emphasis" on the “understanding the positive aspects of Islam, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East.”

The program has until Sept. 22 to send a "revised schedule of activities" and describe how each relates to foreign language and national security, the department said in its letter.



https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462202-trump-admin-say-unc-duke-programs-portray-islam-too-positively

[BootinUp]

1. They should add a uniform code. Brown shirts. Nt

[Lithos]

2. Islam is no different than Christianity or Judaism from the behavior of their adherents...

From an educational standpoint, they could have written:

The Education Department wrote that the program places "a considerable emphasis" on the “understanding the positive aspects of Abrahamic religions, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects individually of Christianity, Judaism or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East.”

This of course differentiates from the "negative" aspects of Abrahamic religions, though that would take away the fun of those who wish to surreptitiously be bigots of brown people.


Brown shirts = bigots of brown people...

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Do we really want the feds to determine

curriculum content? I think not! That is what the Koch boys are trying to do with economics and business curriculum. Talk about a slippery slope.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. This is so wrong-- the government is writing university curricula concerning religion...

Even this Supreme Court should slap that one down without a second thought.

The Establishment Clause is still the law of the land.

[safeinOhio]

5. Just a thought...

Have some Islamic Clerics praises and ssy that they love him because he is sooo smart.
You know what would happen, he’d appoint the to his administration.

[DURHAM D]

6. Didn't Stephen Miller go to Duke? nt

[lunasun]

7. Yes and trump's dept of Ed is determining curriculum for a colleges class. Change it to what they

want, or else lose a grant
Scary miller shit
Way down we go when this kind of enforcement starts

[Marcuse]

8. Trump also has some revisions for the School of Meteorology.

[ooky]

10. Also for history.

Airports in 1776.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Umm, who the fuck does he think he is?

Does he really thing he has a say on everything that goes on in this country?

Miserable narcissist.