Primitive Fringe of Midwest and Mideast Finally Converge

Shot:

In Oberlin talk said that Orwell’s Junior Anti-Sex League had occupied campus feminism.”What the Hell is that?” shouted someone. Look it up.

— Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) April 21, 2015

Told students that women could narrow wage gap by changing majors from, say, sociology to engineering.Room erupted.Horrified gasps & jeers. — Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) April 21, 2015

Oberlin activists had “safe space” for those triggered by my talk.Oberlin admin. provided police security to protect me from safe spacers. — Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) April 21, 2015

300+ students attended my Oberlin talk.Others retreated to nearby “safe room” for protection from my apparently dangerous ideas.

— Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) April 21, 2015

Students at Oberlin yelled & jeered throughout my talk.Except for those with mouths taped shut in first three rows. http://t.co/vgw29XoqsM

— Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) April 21, 2015

Chaser:

Notices went out that classes would resume on 24 Dhu al-Hijjah 1435 in the Islamic calendar (or October 18, 2014, in the Western calendar), about four months after ISIS overran the city.

But some subjects would be banned — democracy and political thought, also hotel management and tourism and archaeology.

“The banning of archaeology is not a surprise,” says Al-Tamimi, who is a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, in Israel. “We see that reflected in ISIS destruction of ancient artifacts. ISIS regards pre-Islamic artifacts as relics from the ‘period of ignorance’, jahiliyah. Their main concern with archaeology is that it would become a subject turning to idol worship, which is strictly forbidden in Islam…

Mosul University still has the same professors and teachers, Al-Tamimi says. “But now teachers are subjected to Sharia sessions, to learn what is and what is not acceptable to ISIS. So, they have preserved the prior system but within ISIS Sharia law conditions.”

—“ISIS bans archaeology,” CNN, today. Link safe, goes to Hot Air.

In other news from a rapidly reprimitivizing American academia, make sure you’ve taken any necessary high blood pressure medication before reading this, or clicking through to see the photos.

Earlier: No Black Armband Left Behind.