Monday, November 28, 2011

Muslim Medical Students Boycotting Lectures on Evolution Because It Clashes With The Koran

But if you can't look, if you won't even try to understand it, what does that say about your religion?

Maybe you need to run, away from the mosque, away from the church, away from the priests and the imams.
(7:45 mark on video)


Muslim medical students boycotting lectures on evolution... because it 'clashes with the Koran'

Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain's leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran.

Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist theory, which form an important part of the syllabus, citing their religion.

Similar to the beliefs expressed by fundamentalist Christians, Muslim opponents to Darwinism maintain that Allah created the world, mankind and all known species in a single act.

Steve Jones emeritus professor of human genetics at university college London has questioned why such students would want to study biology at all when it obviously conflicts with their beliefs.

He told the Sunday Times: 'I had one or two slightly frisky discussions years ago with kids who belonged to fundamentalist Christian churches, now it is Islamic overwhelmingly.

They don't come [to lectures] or they complain about it or they send notes or emails saying they shouldn't have to learn this stuff.

'What they object to - and I don't really understand it, I am not religious - they object to the idea that there is a random process out there which is not directed by God.'

Earlier this year Usama Hasan, iman of the Masjid al-Tawhid mosque in Leyton, received death threats for suggesting that Darwinism and Islam might be compatible.

Sources within the group Muslims4UK partly blame the growing popularity of creationist beliefs within Islam on Turkish author Harun Yahya who, influenced by the success of Christian creationists in America, has written several books denouncing Darwinist theory.

Yahya associates Dawinism with Nazism and his books are and videos are available at many Islamic bookshops in the UK and regularly feature on Islamic television channels.

Speakers regularly tour Britain lecturing on Yahya's beliefs.

One such lecture was given at UCL in 2008 and this year's talks have been given in London, Manchester, Leeds, Dundee and Glasgow.

Evolutionary Biologist and former Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins has expressed his concern at the number of students, consisting almost entirely of Muslims, who do not attend or walk out of lectures. The Wail




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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"This rigidity of the Muslim mind is not best fitted to medicine, what would happen if a patient was being treated by a Muslim doctor and the doctor thought it was "Allah's will" that the person sick, would the doctor in question act against the will of Allah, this may be an extreme example but then we are dealing with extreme thought patterns and content."

"The students should be ejected from the university, medicine is about healing others to the best of your ability, NOT healing others according to your personal beliefs."

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Himself said...

Although everything right wing is not always wrong, Geert Wilders for instance, I do tend to stay away from sites like that.

I'm far from shy when it comes to bashing religious Islam, I do like to keep the politics to a minimum.

How easy it is for those with an agenda to use the abject ignorance of the devotees and turn it in to politics.

But basically, the bloke is correct, medicine is no place for those that clamour for a seventh century village existence.

But one hears so many tales, how true they are I don't know, about ''Allah's will'' being applied to driving through red lights with seemingly reckless abandon, in some of the desert states.

Heading out to Mothers, back later.