Here's another reminder that the offense industry is alive & well in the 21st century.
A college professor in Scottsdale is being sued by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for asking a fact-based question they deemed offensive and Islamophobic.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit against Scottsdale Community College and Professor Nicholas Damask for his teachings that communicated a “disapproval of Islam as a legitimate and peaceful religion.”
Damask’s student, Mohamed Sabra, was “shocked and offended” when he was taught about the connection between Islam and terrorism. Damask gave a quiz that forced Sabra to “either disavow his religion or be punished by getting the answers wrong on the quiz," the lawsuit alleges.
As Campus Reform previously reported, one of the questions on the quiz was “where is terrorism encouraged in Islamic doctrine and law?” The answer was “the Medina verses,” and according to Sabra this showed “a clear hostility and disapproval of Islam.”
The Interim President of SCC released a statement apologizing to anyone “who was offended by the material.” In the future, the college would permanently remove these questions which were “inaccurate, inappropriate, and not reflective to inclusive nature of college.” The message also stated that Sabra would be given back all points lost on those questions.
Damask shortly after made a statement that he would “never apologize for teaching the content” on the quiz. FIRE defended Damask, but the Maricopa County Community College District Interim Chancellor Steven Gonzales apologized for the SCC’s “apparent failure to follow policy and procedure.”