SumOfAllFears
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Iran to Cleanse Universities of Western Thought
I don't think the students of Iran are going to like this. Obama may appoligize for the US exporting "Western Teachings" to Iran.
Iran to 'Islamise' humanity studies at university
(AFP) – Sunday, September 6, 2009 11:09 PM
TEHRAN — Iran is set to Islamise humanities studies in universities after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei charged that Western teachings make students question religion, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
"The Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies was tasked by the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council to revise the human sciences curriculum," the agency said.
"In our country a large part of the syllabus... is not in line with our Iranian-Islamic culture. This calls for a revision," it quoted institute head Hamid Reza Ayatollahi as saying.
He said the body would revise the syllabus "based on the supreme leader's recommendations."
During a meeting with academics last week, Khamenei criticised human sciences taught in the Islamic republic's universities.
"If we teach a copy of what Westerners have said and written to our young people, then we are conveying to them both doubt and disbelief in Islamic principles and in our values," he said.
"Most human sciences are based on materialistic philosophies that see the human being as an animal," charged the all-powerful supreme leader.
He said he was "worried" that nearly two million students are currently majoring in human sciences.
Iranian universities are a hotbed of political activism, and suffered massive purges in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution during a three-year cultural revolution aimed at Islamising campuses and curricula.
Scores of lecturers were sacked and students ejected after being perceived to be leftist or liberal.
Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a purge of liberal and secular academic staff in 2006, a year that saw a number of lecturers forced into early retirement from leading universities.
More than 60 percent of Iran's 70-million-strong population is aged under 30, and hundreds of thousands of young people poured on to the streets to protest against Ahmadinejad's disputed June 12 re-election.
The protests, which have since subsided after a heavy crackdown by the authorities, have plunged Iran into its worst internal crisis in three decades.
Copyright 2009 AFP
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2009 08:00 PM by SumOfAllFears.)
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RE: Iran to Cleanse Universities of Western Thought
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HEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Van Jones just found himself a BRAND NEW JOB !!!!!!!!
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RE: Iran to Cleanse Universities of Western Thought
That should energize the cultural revolution in Iran. Nice job shooting yourself in the foot Aya-tool-ah.
Note though, that if that was Obama, or Congress or W or whomever making the same declaration for the removal of non-Christian values in curriculums at American Universities, that many people on this board would be perfectly okay with it (cough cough GGNiner cough)
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RE: Iran to Cleanse Universities of Western Thought
Kaffir Robert would never notice this sort of thing, though - Kaffirs like him (and Bahai, Zoroaster, etc) are not allowed to go to University in the Islamic Republic of Iran (though ironically Jews and Christians with a death wish are).
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RE: Iran to Cleanse Universities of Western Thought
(09-08-2009 04:56 PM)I45owl Wrote: Kaffir Robert would never notice this sort of thing, though - Kaffirs like him (and Bahai, Zoroaster, etc) are not allowed to go to University in the Islamic Republic of Iran (though ironically Jews and Christians with a death wish are).
"Kaffir Robert"......
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09-09-2009 08:37 AM |
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