Coming Soon: First Accredited Muslim College in US

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<p>Zaytuna</a> College Will Be First Muslim College in US
First</a> accredited Islamic college planned for US | World news | The Guardian</p>

<p>I was unaware that there were no accredited Muslim colleges in the US yet. The Zaytuna Institute is going to be in Berkeley, California, will open this fall, is beginning the accreditation process, and hopes to rival Yale for Islamic Studies. Women and non-Muslims are welcome (they want a 50/50 gender balance), and they only have the funding to start off offering two majors: The Arabic Language, and Islamic Law and Theology.</p>

<p>I figured this was interesting, in light of the ongoing debate about the Islamic community center.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.zaytunacollege.org/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.zaytunacollege.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Oh geez. More controversy and anger from conservative patriots and radical Republicans.</p>

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<p>Actually, no one seems to be paying attention to it, in light of the “mosque” (community center) issue. And it’s on the other side of the country from NYC, too.</p>

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<p>WOOHOO!</p>

<p>I like this. I really do.</p>

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<p>^^ You never know. It IS the USA.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry, it’ll get blown up.</p>

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Nope, Radical Republicans supported equality and abolition. They would be ashamed of xenophobia and religious oppression.</p>

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<p>There’s really no way to belittle this plan, as there was for the community center. I doubt people will care nearly as much.</p>

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<p>I think it’s a good step for educational equality. Apparently this school is being founded because so many Muslim students were leaving the country to go to college.</p>

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<p>^If that’s the case, then everybody should be behind this plan, especially extreme conservatives. America is much more pro-American than some out of country university.</p>

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What’s more, the founding imam is an Air Force veteran. Not much of an anti-American there.</p>

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<p>omg mozlems r evil kill them all!!!111</p>

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<p>The Democratic and Republican ideals essentially switched by the 1968 election. I’m not saying they wouldn’t be “ashamed”, but that’s not the right logic.</p>

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<p>It’s in Cali, which is in my opinion a liberal state.</p>

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<p>cool.10char.</p>

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<p>This is cool. </p>

<p>I can’t believe that there was a Buddhism university before an Islamic university o.O</p>

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<p>I wonder if women have to wear hijabs</p>

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<p>^ Considering that the pictures of classrooms have pictures of women without hijabs- I would say no :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>of course its in berkeley hahaha</p>

<p>i think its kinda cool, though</p>

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<p>It doesn’t happen to be a few hundred feet from where the WTC stood right?</p>

<p>MIT- Don’t call it “Cali” you sound like a total tool when you refer to California like that. For that matter, don’t refer to Southern California as “SoCal” or Orange County as “the OC.” Sorry if I sound rude, but those are like my biggest pet peeves in life. I think the people that came up with those terms wanted to sound like locals and use “surfer lingo” or sound like those idiots on the reality TV shows. Those terms spread faster than a brushfire through the foothills of the San Garbiel Mountains because of all those idiots who bought into all of the stupid reality TV shows. </p>

<p>California is only liberal outside of Orange County, SD county, and parts of LA county.</p>