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A telling incident recently unfolded at the University of Connecticut that vividly illustrates how open-door immigration policies can lead to the introduction of ancient enmities into places where they have never been seen before. With all eyes fixed on Ukraine and Old Joe Biden’s bungling of yet another crisis, it would have been easy to miss what happened in Connecticut, but the events there are worth noting and pondering, as they show what is likely to become a recurring feature of our glorious multicultural mosaic.
It all started back on Feb. 7, when UConn’s Daily Campus reported that the university had “distributed turbahs for Shia Muslim students to use at the Islamic Center of the University of Connecticut (ICUC) and the wellness and meditation space in Homer Babbidge Library, the two main prayer areas on campus for Muslim students.” Turbahs are pieces of dirt or clay from the sacred ground of Karbala that Shi’ite touch to their foreheads during the prostrations of Islamic prayer. These turbahs “were donations to the university and came directly from Iraq.” This was fine and multicultural, but it didn’t go as planned: “the next day, the Ahlul Bayt Student Association at UConn, an organization for Shia Muslim students, found out the turbahs distributed to ICUC had been vandalized and thrown out.”
Was this one of those “Islamophobic hate crimes” we hear about so often and see examples of so seldom? Not unexpectedly, the answer is no. The culprits who disposed of the turbahs were actually Sunni Muslims. Sunnis don’t use turbahs, and generally disapprove of them as bid’a, an unacceptable innovation in Islamic practice. So Sunni UConn students saw the turbahs and unceremoniously pitched them into the trash.
The Daily Campus noted that this sort of thing had happened before: “this is not the first anti-Shia incident to occur at UConn; according to members of the Ahlul Bayt Student Association, an organization for Shia Muslims at UConn, anti-Shia rhetoric has occurred for years. ABSA claims that ICUC has not been a welcoming environment for Shia Muslim students, with ICUC keeping anti-Shia books inside the mosque, and requiring approval for the placement of worshipping items such as turbahs in the space of worship.”
Despite this record of enmity, however, and again according to the Daily Campus, the Sunni Muslim Students Association (MSA) condemned the vandalism and claimed that it had nothing to do with the incident. The MSA had “released a statement condemning the vandalism, claiming that the ICUC executive board had no connection to the attackers. The MSA claimed the e-Board lacked any knowledge that turbahs would be placed in the mosque and reiterated that the placement of any religious items in the mosque requires ICUC approval.”
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WPM says
The MSM will not cover this because it does not fit their narrative. Imaginary hate crimes committed by the hundreds in America towards Moslems by non-Moslem(especially Christian whites) are reported on when they are found out to be fake never fully retracted .More Moslems are killed by other Moslems of different sects everyday in spouts of religious violence (really Jihad because each Moslem group looks at the other as blasphemers).then by non-Moslems killing them. No other major religious group in the world has more inter violent attacks against other sects of their groups today in the 21 century. You have to go back 350 years or more to find large scale clashing between Christian groups in Europe most of them had to do with waring Kingdoms really over land and power not religious practices..
Warren Memlib says
Memo from Sunni to Shia Muslims re: Turbahs: NIMBY!
Hugh Fitzgerald says
The University of Connecticut is a public institution. In distributing turbahs, isn’t it favoring one sect, of one religion? Should it be involved in any way with religious matters?
WPM says
True if they were giving out free bibles and rosary beads with Catholic pray books I am sure it would not over well. Or having stations of the cross in on Holy days in the library it would go over well .
Infidel says
Maybe to showcase their diversity, they can have a mock (or real) enactment of the Battle of Karbala every year on that anniversary?
BexarKat says
I vote “real.”
Keith O says
With bbq pigs and beers at the after party.
livingengine says
CAIR in Connecticut –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-A8xPgXkh4
somehistory says
Next, the U will have the back-lashing day where whichever sect it is, can whip themselves into a bloody frenzy and the other sect members can throw stones at them for being unfaithful, under-devout, mozlums.
Kenneth J Johnson says
A mosque at the University of Connecticut. I gradcuated from the U 70 years ago and I don’t remember any religious functions nor chapels. Of course I spent my time working to pay for my books and studying. Did I miss something or have times changed.,??
KEN
Keith O says
Mudslimes at each others throats again?
Damn, shame about that!
gravenimage says
An Ancient Hatred Comes to Connecticut
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More Muslim-on-Muslim hatred.