The past few weeks have been a learning experience that is valuable to all of us. For one, we have seen how our fellow schoolmates and peers love one another and have respect for one another. Secondly, we as Muslims have created a sense of belonging that has been long lost. As a sign of our respect, we would like to start out by thanking the City College News and all of its affiliates that have shared this ride with us of higher learning. City College News has shown that it cares about the feelings of all students no matter what the race or religion. We would like to thank all staff members that took part in the dialogue that took place in the past week. This truly has opened our eyes and has showed us the lack of knowledge that both sides have of each other. This was a great opportunity to create an environment of learning from each other and an open space where both sides can talk and learn from each other. We, as the committee that was created to counter this issue, first would like to apologize to all staff members of the college newspaper that felt offended in any way or matter. As life goes on, we are all bound to make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. Another sincere apology must go to the student that felt his constitutional right, freedom of speech or expression is being violated. In America, everyone is entitled to the right to express his or her opinion and we respect that as long as it does not interfere with the learning environment of the individual student as well as collegial environment for us overall. This is beneficial because this prevents us from creating a hostile learning environment and as a whole does not interrupt collegial environment. The Muslim students have shown a tremendous patience and forgiveness to the newspaper. The committee members would also like to thank them for that. We would also like to apologize to all Muslims that were offended in any way through this learning experience. In addition, we would like to thank all of the students at MCTC that took part of this and also teachers that expressed their opinions. On behalf of the Muslim students at MCTC, we would like to thank you for your understanding and respecting our way of life.
Sincerely,
Muslim Students at MCTC
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Grant goebel
posted 4/04/07 @ 10:23 PM CST
Of the number of things I would like to say, I'll start out with this: how did you come to the conclusion that the reference to batgirl had anything to do with the hijaab? That is also beside the point, which is how hilarious it is to make reference to specific parts of a cartoon that no one is allowed to see. (Continued…)
Grant Goebel
posted 4/08/07 @ 3:23 AM CST
What do you gain by preventing me from telling those jokes? I may not know much about the prophet, but I will not learn more if I am not allowed to talk about him publicly. (Continued…)
maryan adan
posted 4/09/07 @ 12:55 PM CST
please dont be offended. i think your very imaginative and humorouse. but please understand that its against islam and its not something anyone has just made up. (Continued…)
Mark Belmares
posted 4/09/07 @ 9:56 PM CST
Instead of using Grant as a punching bag for political correctness, why dont we educate the Muslim student body of the beauty of free speech and freedom of expression?
As offensive it may seem to some, speech such as this is exactly what our brave men and women are fighting to protect. (Continued…)
Mark Belmares
posted 4/10/07 @ 7:27 PM CST
Let me tell you just a little bit abouot what it means to be American and I will be brief. IT MEANS YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO SAY WJAT YOU WANT WITHOUT PEOPLE TRYING TO CENSOR YOU. (Continued…)
S.Abdi
Suado Abdi
posted 4/10/07 @ 11:02 PM CST
Yes, you are right that I discourage people talking bad about the prophet. I love the prophet. End of story.
The Qu'an (Koran) does NOT say/allow one to kill unless protecting his/her life. (Continued…)
Michael Pease
posted 4/11/07 @ 9:56 AM CST
"Another sincere apology must go to the student that felt his constitutional right, freedom of speech or expression is being violated. In America, everyone is entitled to the right to express his or her opinion and we respect that as long as it does not interfere with the learning environment of the individual student as well as collegial environment for us overall. (Continued…)
mark.belmares
Mark Belmares
posted 4/11/07 @ 11:06 AM CST
So will you tell us now that the Ayatollah Khomeini was misguided in issuing a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie?
Tell Theo van Gogh's family that Muslims are only to kill in self-defense. (Continued…)
S.Abdi
Suado abdi
posted 4/11/07 @ 2:41 PM CST
First of All, what those guys have done is certainly not self-defense. By self-defense, it means that if one attacks you physically hurting you not verbally. (Continued…)
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Mark Belmares
posted 4/11/07 @ 3:05 PM CST
You still have not told me that what Khomeini did was irresponsible and misguided. Why are you so reluctant to speak out against him or the man who killed Theo van Gogh? Were they or were they not justified in their actions? It's a simple question. (Continued…)
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