Dr. Peterson gets a Million

[_bodyfit]

I read that Dr. Peterson is going to have a project funded to the tune of a Million Tax Payer Dollars. The learned Dr. will use the publics money to translate some Moslem documents so that we may all enjoy their beauty. He also claims that the this translation will help to ease the hatred between the Moslems and the non-Moslems. I suppose that the Arabs can't afford to pay for their own translation with some of their Billions in oil money. I am sure the Al- Quida will put down their arms once they read the professors works.

Utahs Senator Bob Bennett sponsored this pork spending and BYU and the LDS church will be seen as benevolent.




Is there no Voice Of Reason?

[_moksha]

Back when Europe was still struggling through what they call their dark ages, the Islamic culture still was a beacon for learning. Throughout the last thousand years, they have produced a lot of literature. Having some of it translated into English will benefit future generations of English speaking scholarly egghead-type readers. That in turn will keep them off the streets and out of harms way.

[_Mary]

I know this is slightly (well completely) off point, but I attended a governors meeting the other day, and was surprised by how things are moving in some multi-faith schools over here where the balance is being tipped for instance towards majority Muslim attendance.

It is a requirement here that schools teach RE (it forms part of the National Curriculum), and in primary schools of which I am a part, the major religions covered are 1)Christianity (the rest not in any particular order) 2)Judaism 3)Islam, with Hinduism now on recommended 'to do' list.

What is interesting is that in some inner city schools where christianity is in the minority in terms of child representation, it is christianity which is being given the boot.

So we are having a situation where various minority faiths (and I think rightly so) have insisted that all faiths be taught, to a situation where once they get in the majority in terms of staff and children, they see no benefit or relevance in teaching christianity or Judaism and are giving them the boot.

Very Scary....

Mary

[_Dr. Shades]

So we are having a situation where various minority faiths (and I think rightly so) have insisted that all faiths be taught, to a situation where once they get in the majority in terms of staff and children, they see no benefit or relevance in teaching christianity or Judaism and are giving them the boot.

Very Scary....

All the more reason for the separation between church & state!

[_The Nehor]

So we are having a situation where various minority faiths (and I think rightly so) have insisted that all faiths be taught, to a situation where once they get in the majority in terms of staff and children, they see no benefit or relevance in teaching christianity or Judaism and are giving them the boot.

Very Scary....

All the more reason for the separation between church & state!

I thought Taken was from England where the idea of separation of Church and State is not practiced.

[_mocnarf]

It will be interesting to see if Dr Peterson "sanitizes" the Koran. Revising such loving statements that state the if your wife does not what she is told that you should beat her. Or, when you see a Jew you should kill him. Maybe, he can comeup with a "Barny the Dinosaur" type of version, something you would want to read to your children.
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Palestinian TV has a wonderful TV program with a Mickey Mouse character that expounds on the how wonderful it is to be a suicide bomber. Maybe we can bring such wonderful, loving programming to US TV, yes in the name of diversity.
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It's good Dr Peterson lives in Utah, it will make it much more difficult for Jihadists to carry out the fatwa that not doubt will be call for. He may get the opportunity first hand to experience the penalty from the old version of the endowment. Hold onto you head Dr. Peterson.
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[_Mary]

So we are having a situation where various minority faiths (and I think rightly so) have insisted that all faiths be taught, to a situation where once they get in the majority in terms of staff and children, they see no benefit or relevance in teaching christianity or Judaism and are giving them the boot.

Very Scary....

All the more reason for the separation between church & state!

In the UK RE is taught as a subject for the educational value of knowing about different faith traditions within a multicultural society.
It isn't taught in order to convert, just inform.

So, I don't think separation of church and state is an issue here.

Mary

[_Gazelam]

This program may make it easier in the long run for the muslims to understand when we tear down the Dome of the Rock.

[_Merry]

Oh, the analogies I see. :-x


Good luck and congratulations to Dan'l Peterson. May all his translations be unbiased, forever more.

[_AmazingDisgrace]

This doesn't have anything to do with the Koran. They're translating philosophical and medical writings from early Islamic scholars, just like (or maybe as part of) the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative at BYU, of which Dan Peterson is an editor. This is about as related to tearing down the Dome of the Rock as translating Plato would be to tearing down the Parthenon. Maybe if a religious group plotted to destroy the Salt Lake Temple, Mormons would be comforted by Chinese scholars doing a translation of John A. Widstoe's writings.