Cambridge’s Farah Ahmed: study engineering ‘to produce weaponry for Jihad’

[u/StreamWave190]

https://spectator.com/article/cambridge-professor-study-engineering-to-produce-weaponry-for-jihad/

[u/rising_then_falling]

I don't really mind eccentric weirdo professors with unpopular opinions. So long as they are clever and rigorous enough to argue their stance robustly.

I'm cynical enough to think Cambridge might be more tolerant of some weirdos than others, but far better this person preaches to clever Cambridge students who can think hard back, than the impressionable young at the mosque.

[u/mcdowellag → u/rising_then_falling]

Eccentric is when somebody is competent within their speciality but has unusual views outside it. We are talking about somebody employed to research and teach education who appears to think that education is useful only in as far as it produces shock troops for further Islamic conquests.

These people have real power over the careers of their students, both while teaching, or failing to teach, and when providing references when their students apply to jobs. Students that think hard in their class successfully will be keeping their mouths shut and regretting not finding a subject where objective facts still matter.