(True) analogy of Muslims from UCalgary

Submitted by Devasahayam (United States), May 31, 2008 at 08:30

In mid-1980's, University of Calgary's Faculty of Management decided to spend moneys on a new building (they had been allotted office space in Science Faculty earlier); along with this, a new course was added--and the new UCalgary Calendar promoted the Management Faculty for having a course "unavailable even at top US Business schools such as Wharton and Harvard".

However, the new course was taught by the first Dean of the same faculty, a sixth-rate personality who could not qualify for full-professorship tenure even at UCalgary--and whose knowledge of the material could best be described as "dubious".

The similarity to Islam is obvious: a "newer" religion than Judaism or Christianity, claiming "latest" revelation--but falling even flatter. The death-fatwa by Iran, and government-abetted protests in other Muslim-majority countries against Salman Rushdie's bad novel (statutorily identified in flyleaf as "work of fiction") Satanic Verses, and the trouble that even mention of his name causes to this day--the concept that they have no business whatsoever (due to Rushdie's never being a citizen of any of these countries) to protest what he does in UK (or UK's peerage offer to him) never occurs to their mindset!

Contrast this with the reaction of Christians to obvious anti-Christian propaganda films (range between silence, recommendation to Christians not to see it, or at most boycott--FYI, very rarely any protests, and certainly no equivalents of death fatwas) and even Mormon reaction to openly anti-LDS works (best described as "muted".

Obvious conclusion: the "revelations" of Islam/Koran are from Old Nick!

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