A Christian college near Chicago and a political science professor who wore a headscarf to show solidarity with Muslims have agreed to part ways.
Wheaton College says in a statement on its website Saturday that the college and Dr. Larycia (lah-REE’-shuh) Hawkins “have reached a confidential agreement under which they will part ways.”
Hawkins, who’s Christian, was placed on leave in December when she posted on Facebook that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. College officials said at the time that her views were inconsistent with their “doctrinal convictions.”
The college— about 30 miles from Chicago — said then that it would begin proceedings to dismiss her but the faculty protested. Hawkins says in the statement released Saturday that she had great respect for Wheaton college.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Anyone that ignorant should never be allowed to teach.
What, the Christian god told you that He is not also the Muslim god ? That there are multiple gods out there ?
There is only one true God. All thru history there have been man made gods that are totally against what the one true God stands for. and is. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know the difference.
Every feels their God is the true deity. I would have to think at least someone is wrong. Where we are raised, mainly born decides what you believe. Try and be a Christian in Saudi Arabia. Off with your head.
In the Bible, God had several names. Jehovah is one that the Christians use.
Thank you..Amen
in a way, yes. only ONE real god and, or course, that is Yaweh. any other so called god is either a total fake or an evil spirit spamming the world.
There is only one God if you worship any other your going to hell
Agreed!! She is few French fries short of a Happy Meal!!
Actually, Christians and Muslims do worship the same God since we both trace lineage back to Abraham. However, Muslims have very different view of God. We see him as loving and forgiving. Muslims see him as something else.
God gave ever human free will. Muslims do not. I have debated this with someone on their own website. They see Jesus as just another prophet, not as God’s Son and part of the Trinity. The problem lies with Mohamed. It would appear that he just up and decided to start his own religion and, if you read the Quran / Koran you will see that the writers (Mohammed could not read or write so scribes did the actual writing) basically cherry-picked the Torah and New Testament (compare our 10 Commandments and the Quran equivalent) then wrote what Mohammed dictated. It appears that less than 20% of the Quran deals with what would qualify as religious content and the balance on secular content. It also appears that much of the Quran attempts to justify Mohammed sinful life choices. (NCE)
You are absolutely correct. Abraham’s son Ismael, from his wife’s handmaiden, Hagar, became the father of the desert nations. It is in the Christian Bible. God saved them after Abraham sent them off into the desert and promised that Ismael would have many descendants. If Abraham’s wife had kept her faith that God would send her a child in her old age, and not sent Abraham unto Hagar, we wouldn’t be in this mess today! So let that be a lesson to us all. Keep faithful and don’t go trying to out plan God….
Allah is a moon idol, the true God of Israel is the only God in the universe. Allah is one of the thousands idols Muslims worship.
What ignorance? She’s absolutely correct. Muhammad said from the very beginning that the God he was describing was the SAME GOD the Christians and Jews worshiped. And yet we’ve got all these Christians up in arms because the Arabic word for “God” is “Allah” and not “God.” Muslim say there was another Prophet after Jesus named Muhammad. Mormons say Jesus made a repeat visit in America in the 19th Century. So if Muslims don’t believe the same God Christians do, then I guess Mormons and Jews don’t, either.
And don’t you people realize that this “Our God is the ONE GOD” attitude is what’s CAUSING Islam to be so aggressive? And it SHARES that attitude with most versions of Christianity? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Methinks they doth protest TOO MUCH.
From what little I have read, the Koran is a strange book. The versus are arranged from smallest to largest instead of chronologically. In the earliest writings, Mohammed declares all of the prophets of the old testament as messengers of Allah. He mentions Noah, Moses, Abraham, Joshua, Isaac, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Mary, and Jesus. He decries that those who do not listen to Allah’s messengers shall be punished by Allah.
At some point he began using opium to enhance his “visions”, and it became his duty to punish on Allah’s behalf. At this point his writings became rants, and it appears that Satan had his ear as his lust for power increased.
maybe she’s a closet muslim anyway. What an idiot!
How dare they get rid of her, after all, she’s black!
Sorry lady professor, but I do not agree with you, not even one little bit.
Jesus is the son of God…the God of Israel….. Who is the God of Islam. Muhammad came up with his own veiw of things after spending too many days in the sun. Jesus and Moses are both high profits in Islam. Muslims are not to harm anyone of the word, meaning a worshiper of God. That is why the terrorist are not real Muslims.
Having said all that…… Someone yells Ali achbar near me they will catch two in the head and hit the ground with a thump!
I,M SORRY PEOPLE SHE RIGHT.THE GOD OF ISLAM IS THE SAME GOD ABRHAM AND JAKEUP WORSKIPED.IT WAS IN A BOOK I READ IN 1985.I CAN NOT COME UP WITH THE NAME OF THE BOOK.I CAN NOT SPELL GOOD BUT THE IS WHAT IT SAID.(REP MOBILE,AL).
Wrong.
In a way she is right Mohamad did learn his beliefs from Christian Jews . His teaching did help Arabs to be more peaceful . But re must remember the devil works the hardest in the religions . Even The Christian Churches in the past have tried to force their beliefs on others .
Those who can do, those who can’t ,teach!
One God’s theme is love. The other god’s theme is jihad. It is hard to reconcile these diametrically opposed ideas. IMO love is the most powerful “force” in the world. Why? Not many, if any, can get angry, mean if they are gifted by an act of love by another person or even some animals. Jihad on the other hand is just a political movement.
“And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.” Mark 9:43-48
“If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ” John 15:6
“And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.” Malachi 4:3
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ” Romans 1:18
““For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” Malachi 4:1
“In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ” 2 Thessalonians 1:8
That sound like a “loving God” to you?
obviously you did not READ everything. That is for the disobedient and rebellious. But then you don’t think you have to do anything to be the type of person Christ envisioned us to be. Doesn’t work that way.
Wendy: You can worship Allah, the god of hate, but I’ll worship the God of love. The Koran is an evil book and never mentions Allah as ever being a god of love.
Allen you took the words out of my mouth, we the Christians will win not only win the Battle we will win the War, because our God is with us, he always will he promised and I believe all of it.Let them scream Allah and blablabla nothing good to happen, maybe this is why many are so …… but our God send Miracles every day ….. there is a saying I am too Blessed to be stressed
He is our Father and we haven’t the right to do anything that would set us to doubt. Ours is only to except.
True and the Christian Roman Church did control the politics for several centuries . They became evil too
allah and THE GOD OF THE BIBLE, JESUS CHRIST, are not the same. There is only one GOD. JESUS . If she claims to be a CHRISTIAN, then she needs to read and study the Bible and pray and have a relationship with GOD through JESUS CHRIST HUS SON. SHE WOULD THEN KNOW THE TRUTH. Allah is a false god just like baal and molech and ashteroth and budda and all the countless others. There is only one GOD, HOSEA 4:6 says, My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. ( It isn’t higher education, ) It’s a lack of knowledge of the WORD OF GOD.
Lorena: you need some professional help! Maybe some meds, too.
William it is you that has your head in the sand. Lorena is correct.
I say to Martin AMEN, AMEN!
roger that. Allah is a wind god of the ancient arabs and NOT an omnipotent, omniscient spiritual being. Moohamid mad him UP in the 6th century since he didn’t like the way the catholic church was doing…or so i read. God would NOT under any circumstances say one thing to the Jews and tell someone 500 years later to hate jews and slaughter people. Allah is the false god of hate. the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not. That is clear.
Jesus stated numerous times that HE WAS NOT GOD. Lorena’s claim that “There is only one GOD. JESUS . ” is only correct if you hold to the stance that we are all God, and God is all. If you worship Jesus above all, then you don’t understand Christianity at all, because THE God is YWHW, and if you worship another, you are committing the sin of idolarity. (You can VENERATE Jesus and the saints, but you cannot IDOLIZE them.)
Well said!
This ‘Professor’ is certainly NOT a Christian based upon he own ignorant comments.
Of course, Wheaton College is about as ‘Christian’ as U.C. Berkeley! They have fallen away from the true Christian Faith decades ago!!!!
Christianity hasn’t been very Christian since the Nicean Council.
Yeah that’s when man decided he didn’t need the church of the 1st century and created his own after the model of the roman government. No wonder we had the reformation! the Roman church created by that council sucks!
Amen
The God of the Bible and Jesus Christ are not the same. A Christian should know that. The God of the Torah and the Gospel and the Koran ARE the same.
HIS, not HUS as my phone changed.
I congratulate Wheaton on its courage to stand up for its values in the face of political correct speech.
You can congratulate Wheaton, but I will bet you she got paid off to leave quietly. That is NOT justice.
There is One origin of everything. People should not pretend about it. If they don’t know what it is or are not sure, they should look into it. She obviously did not know.
This sounds like President Obama’s prayer breakfast speech where he said all faiths serve the same God.
he is as we should know, delusional. There is only one God and it is NOT allah the fraud.
The comment: She’s a Christian is an oxymoron. FYI:
It is impossible to believe we worship the same God if you are a professing Christian.
Jesus said HE was GOD in the Flesh. Islam does not believe in the Holy Spirit. Jesus said “He would send the Comforter, the Holy Spirit to guide us” so someone here is a liar
You are the first person on here to express that simple truth! Thank you!!!
Let us not forget that Christian were a Jewish sect at and in its’infancy
The reason it spread beyond Judaism is that converting young. Romans didn’t like their wllys’ being snipped.
So the faculty “PROTESTED” over this heretic’S departure? Over what? Perhaps she’S not the only faculty member that needs to go!
Christians do no worship the same god as
muslims. There is one Heavenly Father who created ALL. Remember that all souls belong to God. HE is the only one who can “blot” out your soul at the great white throne judgment as if you never existed. That is the final death. Remember your spirit is the intellect of your soul.
Allah is a moon god. Mohammed chose that deity when creating Islam. The Muslim’s Jesus is not the same man as is portrayed in the New Testament of the Bible. The Muslim’s portray Jesus as a prophet. Christians see Jesus as the Son of God who lived a perfect life and was crucified as a sacrifice for the sins of man. Christian’s believe that Jesus was God’s final word. God didn’t need to become a moon god and author the Koran.
It’s a good idea to send this professor on her way. Either she failed to understand the religions or she was willing to bow at the altar of inclusivity.
congratulations to Wheaton college for terminating a professor who does not even know who the true God is. Any professor at a Christian college should know the true God. Allah is a false god of a false prophet that teaches heresy. All the faculty who sided with her, needs to go also, or to experience repentance, and come to know Jesus. Jesus is not the prophet of Islam. Jesus is prophet, priest, and King of the universe. He is eternal!
He is the creator of all things. How could any sane person think that Allah is the same God? Jehovah God will not tolerate idols or false gods.
We need to wake up and pay attention to who is teaching our kids and what they are teaching in our schools.
How about background checks for teachers,most of our collage students couldn’t tell you who won the Civil War
One would hope in a world of hatred, people would see room for a statement that can spark a real conversation. How many of you calling for the professor’s head are engaged in your own secret sins, like porn, hate, anger, theft, adulatory, etc. Go on and continue to cast that first stone. After all, you must think Jesus was too weak to do it so you, knowing everything and what’s best for everyone, should do it for him. What I’ve read above is the greatest and ugliest form of blasphemy and hypocrisy present. You are called to love your enemy. You are called to do good to those that hate you. You are called to love your neighbor as yourself. You are NOT called to oust everyone who has a difference of opinion, hurt people, or cause division. You know who does that? Satan.
This is just more of the PC, all inclusive, “can’t we all just get along,” mentality. On many issues this approach might work but on many others it will not. Matters of faith and moral conviction are just two areas that come to mind as fitting the areas where ground can not be given if personal integrity are to be maintained. Most parents entrust their children’s higher education to colleges and universities with the expectations that their children will graduate with personal betterment. Such is not often the case and the professors are themselves degenerates to all that is moral and American. It is up to these schools of higher learning to weed these social and moral misfits out of their academic system in preservation of these expected standards.
Mohammed decided to start a religion for the Arab world…..He had many talks with Christians and Hebrew(Jews) and decided to move from Mecca to Medina……He wanted to start a trade center to compete with Mecca the leading trade center at that time…..Mohammed took Ishmael, Abrahams first son with his concubine Hagar as descendants of Abraham…..Hebrews and Christians follow Isaac who was from his wife and thus the birth of Jesus centuries later was born and was the Son of God and our Savior in the Christian world……Today the wars in the Arab world are splintering the Islam religion much like Christians did in 1517 which is known today as the Protestant Reformation…..
You have to ask ‘What kind of a settlement did this supposed educator receive in this matter. (Probably MUCHO taxpayer dollars)
I am a Christian and my Savior’s name is GOD, NOT (Child molester) ALLAH !!!!
I believe the faculty protested that the president said they would begin proceedings to dismiss her instead of letting her go immediately..The article was not clear about the faculties intent.
Great discussion. Now, how about bringing in the idea that God and Jesus are one and the same. Add the Holy Spirit and you have the Trinity. Jesus referred to His Father and He prayed to Him. Muslims say we have three Gods?? but I am surely not taking that route. I fully believe that John 3:16 is the entire Gospel.
Oh for heavens’ sake!!! I’ve just gone down the long list of entries to this posting, and I’m flabbergasted that so much vitriol has been dedicated to the subject. God is the image we carry in our individual souls, based on the religious education we receive (or not) as children. The thing that scares me here is the hate that everyone who has posted above shows his fellow man regarding his own interpretation of things that we, as humans, will not know until we pass to the other side. How can you all be so sure of yourselves? And what does this absolute sureity get you? From where I’m sitting, it only foments hate for people with a different point of view. Does that make for the type of world we want our children to inherit? I think not. Providing one does nothing to harm his fellow man, “Live and Let Live” would be a much better approach.
Islam. Where is thy love? All Christians are taught love God and love they neighbor. All muslims are taught jihad is their duty. Not all christians or muslims take what they are taught to heart and act accordingly. IMO jihad is just the Islamic idea of a crusade. Except their crusade is to free the whole world of infidels instead of trying to take back the Holy Land. Plus islam used the powers of govt to impose their religion on everyone. Like in Pakistan you can’t work for the govt if you are not a muslims. You also pay special taxes, Will all those in favor of paying taxes so this money can be used to support the local mosque or rabbi or bishop please send your money to Obama. Common core is Islamic catechism. Meanwhile the most insidious legal mythology in America is the idea there is a separation of church and state clause in the Constitution. What the Constitution actually says is the state is forbidden from establishing a state religion. Plus citizens are allowed freedom of religion so the govt can’t tell us what is right from wrong . Only what is legal or illegal. No one has to go to church or mosque or pray 5 times a day, etc. As far as the govt is concerned people can go to hell if they so choose, or to heaven if they choose the other path, the other way, the other life.
Consider this. Jim Crow laws were beneficial to whites because white got special rights because of their race. This is in addition to blacks being denied rights because of their race. Apartheid is similar except in name. Islam is a form of religious apartheid or Jim Crow because muslims get preferential treatment because of the religion. And other forms of Jim Crow, discrimination abound. Like union workers get preferential treatment in some work places because they are members of a union. At one time unions were strongholds of operations where skilled people were trained by them. Now however unions are political operations instead of founts of training. This is not suggesting that mgmt. is a source of angels since sweat shops, child labor and other practices were not in the best interests of the workers. The govt is supposed to be neutral referee type operation to do things in the best interests of we the people. Our form of govt is much like the promised land in the bible where special interests are wiped from the face of the land. Jim Crow is pretty common now in PC on a national level.
BURN THAT STUPID POS. SEMPER FI