This year Marian College is holding it annual academic symposium called In the Name of God: Religion and Violence
Speakers include James Carroll author of that history hack called Constantine’s Sword. Who will talk on Christian Anti-Semitism and Violence.
John Esposito, Ph.D will talk on Islam and Violence
He has said that Hamas is a “group that engages in “honey, cheese-making, and home-based clothing manufacture.”
Esposito also claimed on NPR that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat’s call for Jihad is comparable to a “literacy campaign” or the “fight against AIDS.”
And then we have moderator Michael Ketterhagen, Ph.D. and Pandit Rajmani Tigunait Ph.D.(Successor of Swami Rama) both of the Himalaya Institue. This is a institute that promotes Hatha Yoga and states:
All problems are created and solved by the mind, but surprisingly, mind is not known to itself. Mind is the greatest of all mysteries.
Looks like they will get every viewpoint but a Catholic one.
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Appleby is about the only one I’d be willing to give 10 minutes of my time to listen to. Frequently wrong, but I have to admit he’s no dummy.
Carroll is a whack-job who should be relegated to the borscht belt circuit that is VOTF/CTA.
But, all in all, he’s still preferable to the giant void that is John Esposito. You won’t learn anything about Islam from him, either–he’s the biggest apologist for Islamic extremism there is.