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April 24, 2006
US: Creeping Shari'a in Tennessee
Over at Frontpage Magazine, Daniel Pipes comments on Bill Hobb's forced resignation from Belmont University: Islamic Law at Belmont U
Who would have thought that Belmont University of Nashville, Tennessee, would apply the Islamic law to its staff? But just that happened earlier this month.Bill Hobbs, a Republican political advisor, blogger, and news writer for Belmont, which bills itself as "the largest Christian university in Tennessee," was upset in February 2006 about the cowardice of the American media in not publishing the Danish cartoons. So he drew a primitive cartoon of his own and posted it on his personal site. It sat in obscurity until April 5, when a Democratic political operative, Mike Kopp, wrote about it, calling it:
a bizzare page with the heading Draw Mohammed that spotlights a stick drawing of the Prophet Mohammed holding a bomb. The cartoon is entitled "Mohammend Blows." Under the cartoon Hobbs issues an invite to "exercise your right to free expression by drawing pictures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed". He ends the post with the phrase "Here's my first mo-toon." All this was posted at 12:40 pm, on Friday, February 24, 2006.[...]the damage had been done. Hobbs announced in the late morning at NashvilleFiles.com, "I am resigning from Belmont University in an amicable and mutual parting of the ways, effective Monday [April 17]."
Perhaps I should ask my colleague and friend Giraldus Cambrensis to rename his own Mohammad cartoon Aisha Blows, in 'honor' of Mohammad's pedophilic proclivities.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at April 24, 2006 9:28 AM
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