More statement of the obvious. One can only hope Melbourne University’s clueless vice-chancellor has been keeping up with the gender segregation controversy enough to have read this essay by Fiona Hill. Look sharp, man! Listen up.
[Hosting the sex-segregating group that Melbourne hosted] is analogous to permitting a right-wing Christian group to promote a Crusade to Syria to “rescue” it from non-Christians. Or permitting a radical Christian group to promote ethnic cleansing of Israel to make way for the Messiah.
Maybe before the vice-chancellor starts lecturing us about religious freedom he could check out some of the organizations his university hosts.
April 30th, 2013 at 3:52PM
“Or permitting a radical Christian group to promote ethnic cleansing of Israel to make way for the Messiah.”
I have never, ever heard of a radical Christian group promoting ethnic cleansing of Israel to make way for the Messiah. Some Christian groups, radical or otherwise, do believe that the immigration of Jews to Israel will help make way for the Messiah, which is more than a little different.
95% of the messages in the world explicitly promoting the killing of Jews in Israel surely originate from Muslims.
This doesn’t mean that all or even a majority of Muslims share this view, but it is pernicious set the hypothetical up the way she did.