A Rough Week in the Ivy League
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It’s been a rough week for the Ivy League.
Yale’s still suffering from the fallout of art student Aliza Shvarts, who will be forever immortalized for her senior art project that depicts herb-induced abortions/miscarriages. Now the Yale administration is faced with the tough task of cleaning up after Shvarts’ mess, an endeavor that is made even more formidable considering many admitted students are still deciding whether or not to matriculate. CLAY: Choose Life at Yale has issued forth a statement to soothe the offended.
From For God, For Country and For Yale:
We believe that Yale students, regardless of their views of abortion, were deeply disturbed by this trivialization of the agony of women who face crisis pregnancies and endure miscarriages. This episode offends every thinking person who grapples with the deeply polarizing moral issue of abortion. Most profoundly, it is a depraved but telling reflection of the disrespect for life that abortion has inevitably led to. Though this unfortunate matter may attract wide and unflattering attention to Yale, we hope, at the very least, it will also generate a thoughtful dialogue about the value of human life, and the fact that Aliza’s project is only one logical and legal conclusion of the pro-choice position.
Also, we are planning to hold a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, April 23rd, from 9-11 pm on Yale’s cross campus.
Instapundit has also reported on a possible link between hiring Yale law clerks and having your opinions reversed.
And Sweetness & Light reports on a disturbing trend within Harvard’s hallowed halls, as covered by Investor’s Business Daily:
Islamofascism: Separate gym hours for Muslim coeds. Calls to prayer. Lectures on Shariah finance. A campus in the Mideast? Nope. It’s all happening at America’s pre-eminent college.
Over the past few years, Harvard University has received millions in endowments from rich Saudi and Emirate sheiks. Now it’s returning the favor by Islamizing its campus and promoting the Shariah agenda of its new Arab masters.
Recently, the Ivy League school has made special accommodations for the religious needs of Muslim students, including, and rescheduling of exams to observe Islamic holidays.
And this weekend it hosted a $400-per-person conference on Shariah finance led by officials from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The goal of the forum — sponsored by Harvard’s Islamic Finance Project — is to “integrate” Islamic finance into the mainstream economy.
That’s a tough fit, because Islamic, or Shariah, finance forbids investment in major Western industries, including those that derive substantial income from interest.
Banking and insurance, as well as alcohol, tobacco or pork-related industries, are not considered “halal,” or allowable, under Islam. Entertainment is also unlawful.
Shariah-compliant investments are monitored by paid Shariah law advisers who must “purify” certain returns by donating them to Islamic charities — including some that promote jihad and support suicide bombings.
With $800 billion already in Shariah assets — and $1 trillion to $2 trillion in Arab petrodollars annually looking for an investment home — the potential for billions being siphoned off for terrorism is real.
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