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'Unauthorized' Muslim university deletes TexAM website after Texas A&M cease-and-desist order

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You ever look to see how many unaccredited schools there are?
List of unaccredited institutions of higher education - Wikipedia

This one being suppresed happened to be run by Muslims. But as Thomas Jefferson pointed out, that wouldn't be done in a free nation.
I looked through the list up through the C's and it seems that most of the ones listed as being in Texas are either no longer in Texas or no longer in operation altogether. I did find three, however:


I kinda want to give a pass to Bowling U, though. It's not named after a Mr Bowling; it's actually focused on the bowling industry. Bowling college makes me immediately think of Homer going to clown college.
 
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There's nothing rational about blaming an entire religion for a radical few of them. You might as well say that all Christians are Christian nationalists who want to oppress all other religions.

Nothing sensible or rational about this. It's just making excuses to oppress people one hates.
The radical Muslims are the ones who are willing to coexist with other religions and stick with the laws of their new homeland. The mainstream Muslims tolerate the radicals as a form of "taqiyya", so that others will allow Islam to increase. People would otherwise see mainstream Islam as abhorrent. Ultimately Islam does not allow freedom of religion and are justified to enslave people of other religions or force them to pay a tax. Missionary activity by other religions is banned wherever Islam has taken control. Islam is a political ideology dressed up as religion, and their ultimate aim is to introduce Sharia law. Women become 2nd class citizens and often treated as possessions.

Anyone turning a blind eye to the reality of Islam is neither rational nor sensible.
 
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This one being suppresed happened to be run by Muslims. But as Thomas Jefferson pointed out, that wouldn't be done in a free nation.

I have heard it said that a good way to gauge a belief system is not to straw poll random individuals who claim to follow it, but rather to look at the teaching and example of the founder of that religion, how did the founder of the religion live, what did they teach? Someone can look to the life and teachings of Jesus, to get an authentic idea of Christianity. And the other religion you're referencing, someone could look to the teachings and example of it's founder, to get an authentic idea of it.

When Thomas Jefferson was alive, I don't know if many United States Citizens were adherents of various other belief systems, I'm guessing he was speaking to and of a primarily Christian audience, different Christian denominations.

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When Thomas Jefferson was alive, I don't know if many United States Citizens were adherents of various other belief systems, I'm guessing he was speaking to and of a primarily Christian audience, different Christian denominations.
Jefferson actually addressed that issue:

The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason & right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read, “a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion.” The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination.
Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
 
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An Islamic academic institution said to be "unauthorized" by the state of Texas has deleted its website following a threat of legal action by Gov. Greg Abbott's office.

Formally known as the Texas American Muslim University, “TexAM University,” which operates as a nonprofit registered under the name Texas American Institute for Technology at Dallas, is not officially recognized as a university by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), the body that oversees all public post-secondary education in the state, according to officials.

TexAM does not hold regional accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) nor is the organization listed on a federal database of accredited post-secondary institutions and programs.

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Today I learned there are Muslim universities. I know about various Christian universities, Jewish colleges, but not Muslim ones. Wow!
 
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Texas is seriously having some problems with muslim only cities/events/schools/housing cropping up... why are the muslims pushing so hard in Texas of all places?! Goodness.
Especially considering how Christian and conservative Texas is overall.
 
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Especially considering how Christian and conservative Texas is overall.
It would be wrong to assume that most Texans hate people of other religions. After 9/11, when there were threats of violence directed at Muslims and Asians who looked like they might be Muslims, some Christian churches reached out to them. One group formed a line of Christians around a local mosque. Mostly symbolic protection, but I'd like to think it gave some comfort to the people who attend that mosque.
 
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