The World Cup in Qatar has just begun. For the French Minister of the Interior large gatherings also raised the terrorist threat of a “drone loaded with explosives going into a crowd”, which he said could concern a ceremony such as the Olympic Games for example.
According to Gérald Darmanin, drones are the “main terrorist threat of today and tomorrow”. The French Minister of the Interior warned about the possibility of an attack with a “drone loaded with explosives that goes on a crowd, on an exposed team”, during an opening ceremony “like at the Olympic Games for example”, reported French daily Le Figaro. During events such as these, “cyber attacks, anti-drone warfare, questions of terrorist threats and the flow of people are important issues”, he insisted.
In order to ensure the security of French supporters present in Doha for the football World Cup, “225 police officers, gendarmes and EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) specialists” have been sent, the minister said. He explained: “This is intelligence and experience to be learned for tomorrow, for the Rugby World Cup and the Olympic Games. There is much to learn from previous competitions, and this is also the last major competition before our own competitions organised in France.
The opening ceremony of the Paris Games, which will take place on the Seine with some 600 000 spectators expected, is a major concern for the French authorities. Nearly 35 000 police and gendarmes will be mobilised for the event.
Majid Freeman claimed people are converting to Islam in Qatar on the sidelines of FIFA World Cup 2022 (Image: File/SS from viral video)
On November 22, the Guardian’s ‘good samaritan’ Majid Freeman claimed in a tweet that over 500 people (apparently tourists visiting Qatar to enjoy FIFA World Cup 2022) have converted to Islam. Not to forget, Freeman was used as one of the “legitimate” voices during the Leicester violence, where Hindus were attacked for weeks. OpIndia reported how he was accused of fanning violence and was caught spreading fake news on several occasions.
Majid Freeman claimed people were converting to Islam. Source: Twitter
In the tweet, he wrote, “Allahu Akbar! We’ve heard from local daees in Qatar that 500+ people have embraced Islam recently.” Furthermore, he shared a video claiming that a Mexican fan embraced Islam. He added, “Thousands of fans from around the world are there. May they get an opportunity to see the beauty of Islam, and may Allah guide them.”
Though he made such claims, there were no reports in the media of people converting to Islam. Not even the Guardian, which was found of taking his views at face value during the Leister violence, has reported anything that would support his claims.
Interestingly, a Nigeria-based news website, ‘Muslim News’ recently named The Guardian the ‘Most hijab friendly media house’. The website ran a poll to find which media house was the most hijab friendly. The Guardian won the poll and got whooping 75 votes! This is the same portal that had awarded the financial fraud accused Rana Ayyub as the ‘Global Muslim Media Person 2021’.
Freeman is not the only one claiming such conversions on the sidelines of FIFA World Cup 2022. A Twitter user Abu Siddiq claimed in a tweet that 558 people have converted to Islam so far on the sidelines of the world cup in Qatar. He wrote, “With the way things are going, and with the grand entrance of Shaykh Dr Zakir Naik and his team into Qatar, thousands of Europeans will see the light and accept Islam.”
Twitter user claimed 558 people were converting to Islam. Source: Twitter
Dilly Hussain, the Deputy editor of 5PillarsUK, whose Twitter handle was withheld by the Indian authorities for spreading fake news, made similar claims. He wrote, “At least 558 people have accepted Islam in one week in Qatar. Alhamdulillah.” Interestingly, no such reports were found on the 5PillarsUK website.
Deputy editor of 5PillarUK, a propaganda website, claimed 558 people in Qatar converted to Islam. Source: Twitter
Who is Majid Freeman, and the allegations against him
To understand who Majid Freeman is, we must travel back to 2013 when ISIS activity was at its peak in Syria. In 2013, BBC aired a documentary about the “Aid for Syria” convoy which had “humanitarian organisations” and “activists” travelling to Syria to help those affected by ISIS atrocities. BBC at the time hid the names of the charities involved in the convoy – it was later revealed by analyst and scholar Sam Westrop that those charities were One Nation, Al Fatiha Global, and Aid4Syria.
In 2013, when the Aid For Syria charity was being exposed for its fundamentalist Islamist nature by several scholars, Majid Freeman was in Syria under this banner, with another “aid worker” Alan Henning, who was later abducted and beheaded by ISIS. He was with Henning when he was abducted by ISIS, indicates reports.
Freeman spoke at the memorial service for Henning, calling him a beautiful man who helped when the international community looked away. However, according to a Telegraph report, only two weeks after the beheading, Freeman started posting messages supporting ISIS. In his Facebook post, he asked for “dua” for a British ISIS terrorist Ifthekar Jaman who was charged with a Syrian terror plot. He also posted a video that essentially said that ISIS was a reasonable response to Western policy and said, “This brother hit the nail on the head”.
Majid Freeman, according to the Telegraph report, has expressed support for Al Qaeda terrorists calling them Shaheed, said that Al Aqsa will be conquered by Jihad, and expressed sympathy and support to the Al Qaeda cleric who incited terrorist attacks against non-Muslims.
Interestingly, the Telegraph report also reveals that Freeman was questioned by the police but was not charged with any crime in relation to Aid4Syria.
Majid has, essentially, encouraged European Muslims to “do jihad in Syria,” and has promoted “tributes” to the late Al Qaeda terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki on his Twitter and Facebook accounts – this screenshot was posted by Sam Westrop in his expose.
Majid Freeman and his links with organisations connected to Al Qaeda, IHH: Is there a PFI connection?
At the heart of this question, are three so-called charities that were ‘working’ in Syria – Aid4Syria, Al Fatiha Global (Aid4Syria’s parent organisation), IHH, Children in Deen and One Nation.
It is pertinent to note that Majid Freeman was travelling in the humanitarian convoy to Syria along with these organisations and is personally involved with others like One Nation and Aid4Syria.
Given the involvement of Majid Freeman in the violence against Hindus in Leicester, the misinformation he spread to instigate Muslims to target Hindus, and his terror-sympathising views and associations, one has to wonder if there is more to the violence than meets the eye. The fact that IHH was involved in the Syrian convoy, of which Freeman was a part, and that IHH has forged an alliance with the banned radical Islamist organisation PFI in India which works explicitly against Hindus (read this vision document to know about their plans to turn India Islamic and subjugate Hindus) raises far more questions than it answers.
Zakir Naik’s Qatar visit to preach Islam
Recently, it was reported that Zakir Naik, the Islamic Preacher from India wanted for financial fraud and other crimes, reached Qatar to preach Islam. A video from 2016 went viral where he was seen converting people to Islam in Qatar. Though the video was old, there are speculations that his preaching on the sidelines of the FIFA World Cup 2022 may be directed at conversions of visiting football fans.
Bad news for the future of medicine and the future of human life. While radical politics had consumed the ‘soft sciences’ and most impractical academic fields, the practical ones, especially the sciences, were generally intact. In the last decade, all of academia has crumbled.
Quotas are everywhere and woke mandates have displaced academic ones.
That means people will die. Because we’ll have doctors who got there by talking about their victimhood, but are not qualified to do anything more than posture and virtue signal about their pain.
Forty-four percent of medical schools have tenure and promotion policies that reward scholarship on “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Seventy percent make students take a course on “diversity, inclusion, or cultural competence.” And 79 percent require that all hiring committees receive “unconscious bias” training or include “equity advisors”—people whose job it is to ensure diversity among the faculty.
The pattern here is the familiar one with upward and downward pressure leading to diversity mandates that detract and undermine the core mission.
The report indicates that more than a third of medical schools offer extra funding to departments that hit diversity targets, half require job applicants to submit diversity statements, and over two thirds “require departments/units to assemble a diverse pool of candidates for faculty positions.”
And they’re getting them. Not medically qualified, but politically qualified.
In addition, every school reported using a “holistic admissions” process—a euphemism for affirmative action—that assessed applicants’ grades and test scores in light of their race, lowering the academic bar for groups “underrepresented in medicine.”
Instead of doctors being chosen for their ability to help patients, they’re being chosen to make them feel represented.
This is millennial woke narcissism in a nutshell.
Released November 10, the report comes in the wake of a yearlong campaign by the Association of American Medical Colleges to inject “diversity, equity, and inclusion” into the accreditation process. A year ago, the group put out guidelines calling meritocracy a “malignant narrative.”
Now the next generation of medical practitioners will be the least meritorious since the bubonic plague.
In some corners of the world, America and Canada no longer stand as beacons of freedom, but as examples of what can happen when democracy is successfully attacked from within.
The world has watched protests that revolved around everything from elections to COVID mandates — and they’ve anxiously watched our government’s responses to those protests. Now it’s clear that our public conflicts have fanned the flames of power struggles already smoldering around the globe.
Take Brazil for instance.
Last Thursday, in a page from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s playbook, Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes orderedthe freezing of protesters’ bank accounts — to include individuals, truckers and the companies they work for. Why? Because of “repeated abuse of the right to assemble.”
On Sunday, another disturbing report emerged that Brazilian Justice Inspector, Minister Luis Felipe Salomao had “signed an order allowing child services to take children away from election protesters.” According to the War Room, “The Public Ministry, Guardianship Council, and auxiliary bodies have been assigned to “protect the children,” removing them from the protests and their parents’ custody when they deem necessary.”
This order was eerily like when Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to crackdown on Freedom Convoy protestors. The act of a desperate dictator, the prime minister made it illegal to bring minors to (suddenly deemed “unlawful”) protest sites, which was punishable by fines of up to $5,000 and/or up to five years in jail. Police assured parents that their children would be “brought to a place of safety” upon removal.
How did we get here?
Last month, “Lula” da Silva of the leftist Workers’ Party, former president and convict who was serving time on corruption charges as recently as 2019, shocked everyone when he squeaked out a win over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.
According to sources, soon after Lula’s win over Bolsonaro, an organic movement swelled up on social media platforms with supporters asking, “What are we going to do? Are we going to stand for this?”
After being told that their president lost his reelection bid last month, Brazilians have been protesting nearly non-stop. The number of protestors has experienced an ebb and flow because, like most Americans and Canadians, they must strike a balance between holding down jobs and fighting for their democratic rights.
November 15th was one of the largest protests yet, with millions filling the streets in support of outgoing President Bolsonaro. Coinciding with a public holiday, a sea of people began assembling holding signs that read:
#BrazilWasStolen
Army’s Forces – Save Brazil!
Democracy YES
The power comes from the people
No to Communism – Communism NEVER
Many of Bolsonaro’s supporters believe the election was stolen and they’re begging the Brazilian military to come to their aid. They believe their constitution supports military intervention in the instance of a fraudulent election. (Also, Bolsonaro himself is a former army captain, and many of his top officials have some military connection.)
A Bolsonaro supporter explains:
Everybody’s saying the military needs to take over; but they just don’t know how. There’s Article 142 in our Constitution, but our Constitution is over 500 pages; ridiculous big. For everything that’s there, there’s something else that seems to contradict it; so it’s almost impossible to apply anything correctly.
“We hope the army will intervene in this situation, we know that those elections were fraudulent,” a retired government worker told Reuters at a rally at the entrance to a Sao Paulo army barracks.
Protestors rallied near military bases in major cities because they felt safer there. “Thinking that if someone is going to try to take them out, the military will protect them,” a source said.
Another Bolsonaro supporter said protestors also felt safer near the military bases than say, the National Congress buildings in their capital of Brasilia, because of what happened on January 6th, : “They saw it was a trap. The protest was infiltrated … with people that were wearing MAGA hats and urging them on.” Bolsonaro supporters weren’t going to get railroaded the same way Trump supporters had been, he said.
Prior to the election, Bolsonaro had tasked the military with an audit on the security of the country’s electronic voting system. He had long considered it vulnerable.
The military did not release the results of the report until the presidential runoff election was over. While the report supposedly showed “no fraud or inconsistency,” according to CNN, it went on to say that, “It is not possible to guarantee that the programs that were executed in the electronic voting machines are free from malicious insertions that alter their intended function.” Since they weren’t given full access to the source code, there was no way they could rule out the influence of malicious code.
Bolsonaro supporters saw this as an admission that voting could have been be tampered with.
As it stands now, truckers and trucking companies that have had their accounts frozen are talking about not moving goods for 30 days. “This could bring the country to it’s knees,” a supporter said. “There’s a fight right there. We’re waiting to see what’s going to happen.” He added that he believed civil war could be avoided. “And I do believe something is going to happen that’s going to be better than what has happened in the United States. Where are the millions of people who voted for Lula? Where are they? Only the criminals and celebrities are happy about the election!”
To watch Steve Bannon’s interview with reporter Jayne Zirkle about the Brazilian government’s suppression of protesters, click here.
Footballers from Western European nations who wanted to support LGBT rights are now backing down and declining to wear the multi-colored “One Love” armband at the World Cup in Qatar after FIFA threatened sanctions, including yellowcards, against any players seen wearing the symbol.
Footballers in nations like England, Wales, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland consulted with their national football associations, and the threat of sanctions for displaying the LGBT symbol were too great to risk. Qatar is a Muslim country ruled by Sharia law where homosexuality is illegal.
England’s captain, Harry Kane, was set to wear the armband in a match against Iran, but the English team released a joint statement before the game saying they had changed their minds: “We had been willing to pay penalties, which would normally be the case for dress code violations. However, we couldn’t put our players in a situation where they could get a yellow card or even be forced to leave the field.”
National German Football Association (DFB) President Bernd Neuendorf called FIFA’s decision to sanction the armbands as an “unprecedented event in World Cup history. We will not carry out the confrontation brought about by FIFA.” Neuendorf made the statement after the captain of the German national team, star goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, said he would no longer wear the “OneLove” armband after expressing his desire to do so. The news is making top headlines in Germany.
According to Germany’s Taggeschau media outlet, FIFA was not only threatening yellow cards but also potential player dismissals and even point reductions from teams competing in the World Cup.
In a statement, the association pointed to Article 13.8.1 of the Equipment Rules: “For FIFA finals, the captain of each team must wear an armband provided by FIFA.” FIFA indicates it supports campaigns like “One Love,” but this support must be done within the framework of the rules.
According to Lee Wagner, a reporter for Germany’s ARD public broadcaster, “It looks as if FIFA President Gianni Infantino is taking revenge for the growing criticism from the DFB and other European associations,” said Wagner. The DFB recently announced that it would not support Infantino in his re-election as FIFA president.
The Dutch football association (KNVB) expressed that FIFA’s decision was incomprehensible.
“The fact that FIFA wants to punish us on the pitch is unique and goes against the spirit of sport, which unites millions,” explained the KNVB. “We stand by the ‘One Love’ message and will continue to spread it, but our number one priority is to win games. You don’t want the captain to start the game with a yellow card.”
Neuendorf had already spoken about differences of opinion with FIFA on Sunday, but also said: “We informed FIFA a long time in advance that we want to play with this armband, and there was no reaction from FIFA.” After consultation, the associations changed their minds.
The campaign was a joint effort announced in September by teams from Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Wales, France, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, although the last two did not qualify for the World Cup.
To keep illegals flooding into the EU, human traffickers are now willing to accept the deaths of police officers. During a chase on the Hungarian highway, alleged Iraqi traffickers opened fire at the police. In the end, the traffickers could only be arrested and disarmed by a counter-terrorism unit.
The Austrian outlet eXXpress reported on the police operation.
Drivers who were driving on M1 highway towards Budapest on Monday morning must have literally felt like they were the real actors in the wrong violent action movie. What unsuspecting motorists experienced was not the usual traffic. It became a life-threatening journey instead.
Hungarian police on Wednesday released on-board camera footage of the patrol car chasing a van carrying two Iraqi smugglers and 21 migrants on the M1 highway. During the chase, shots were fired from the van at the moving police car.
The shooting continued even when the smugglers had to jump out of the van to escape because of a traffic jam: While trying to escape, they kept shooting at the police car. Counter-terrorism forces eventually arrested the two men posing as Iraqi citizens.
The Hungarian police had their hands full
The increasing violence by migrants and people smugglers poses a serious threat to Hungary’s internal security, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chief adviser for internal security, György Bakondi, told Hungarian state television last week.
Bakondi pointed out that the Hungarian border guards had already picked up 244 000 cross-border entrants this year. In 2021 there were 105 000 in the same period. According to Bakondi, the figures clearly show that the pressure to migrate is increasing.
Orbán’s security adviser pointed out that Hungary had massively strengthened border protection this year. This is all the more necessary as the border police are increasingly being attacked by groups of migrants.
A recent study by the Hungarian Migration Research Institute confirmed Bakondi’s statements. According to the institute, attacks by human traffickers on the border police are increasing – and not just on the border, but also in the interior. Security expert József Horváth told the Magyar Nemzet newspaper that smugglers were under increasing “pressure to perform”, leading criminals to become more militant and violent.
Talks with Serbia and Austria
In October the Hungarian Prime Minister started a series of talks with the Austrian Chancellor and the Serbian President at the Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest on illegal immigration.
The leaders of the three countries were being affected by it in the most severe possible way, according to Orbán: “We all three are suffering from illegal migration.” He observed that this absorbed much energy and live force as well as enormous amounts of money.
Hungary initiated this meeting “because we are in the most complex situation,” given that the country has a migration problem from two directions. In consequence of the Russo-Ukrainian war, more than a million refugees have arrived from the easterly direction, from Ukraine, and meanwhile the borders are also “under permanent siege” from the south, he said.
“We see no change in the Brussels policy that encourages migration, the re-distribution quotas are placed on the agenda time and again,” he added.
The grotesque extent to which the political and media left have been devoting themselves to woken identity politics for years is now causing annoyance even among “orthodox” socialists in this political camp – and is increasingly alienating those for whom being left has always been a question of social justice, labour and relations of production. A Hamburg leftist who ironically presents himself as a “transmuslim” and a “bearded woman” is now properly humiliating his own party comrades.
For some time now, Tavassoli has been appearing as a bearded woman and “trans-Muslim” in order to – in typical subversive manner – suspect “discrimination” everywhere and demand allegedly violated fundamental rights. By confronting them with their own idiocy, Tavassoli repeatedly embarrasses the left-wing academic elites in politics, the media and universities and puts them in need of explanation – simply by demonstrating in practice the effects of the left-wing delusion.
With his “outing” as a woman, for example – one who nonetheless refrains from adopting any female attributes, but “who” as an obvious biological male with a full beard simply claims to be a woman – he aptly satirises the ideology of the supposedly arbitrary free choice of gender simply out of a mere feeling, as propagated by Western “activists”.
Zur Richtigstellung: @BijanTavassoli hat im Raum der Stille ein Video aufgenommen und öffentlich geteilt. Darauf waren Personen ohne ihre Zustimmung zu sehen. Es handelt sich hier um Verstöße gegen das Hausrecht der UHH und gegen Persönlichkeitsrechte. (1/2)
Last week, he caused a stir at the University of Hamburg, where he is enrolled, by praying in the “Room of Silence” in his capacity as an alleged “transmuslim”. Because he videotaped this farce, the university considered it a violation of its house rules and personal rights and demanded that the video be removed from all public websites.
However, this is not without adding the statement: “All genders and religions are welcome at the University of Hamburg. The university has been a member of the Diversity Charter since 2008 and adheres to these commitments.” Tavassoli now takes this criticism as an opportunity to gleefully accuse the university of all kinds of phobias.
Tavassoli’s response – partially visible in the above tweet – was quick: “The University of Hamburg is threatening to exclude me defacto (sic!). Staff told me off the record that I had to choose between being a “normal Muslim” or a “normal tranny” if I wanted to continue my studies, but the university management would not accept either”, he commented, adding sarcastically that he had “always perceived the university as an open, tolerant space for discourse, which has made rooms available to Salafists as well as to antifa activists, representatives of the BDS alliance as well as anti-German activists”.
Tavassoli, who himself is also a member of the Left Party, had also contested the results of the executive elections of the Hamburg party congress in September because he had been refused to stand in absentia for the post of party spokesperson and the women’s list for the executive.
The party itself had already initiated proceedings to expel Tavassoli in August 2021 because he had celebrated the defeat of the “US imperialists” in Afghanistan and called for the execution of “collaborators” by the Taliban. With this, too, he had already succeeded in provoking the left – by simply taking their own phraseology to extremes.
On Sunday morning, passengers on the Aix-Marseille shuttle bus heard Quranic verses being played by a driver. The regional administration Metropole Aix-Marseille is leading the investigation.
Sunday morning, line 50, Aix-en-Provence bus station. The Aix-Marseille shuttle bus, the most used, 10,000 to 15,000 passengers every day during the week. You get on the bus late in the morning and the speakers play a psalmody in Arabic from the first to the last seat. The volume is high. One of the passengers confronts the young bus driver: “You can’t expect us to listen to that!”; Another in the back of the bus, an Algerian: “You don’t respect secularism, you have no right to do that!
The driver’s reaction is curt and without the slightest hesitation: “This is my bus! I do what I want. If you are not satisfied, get off”. This version was confirmed to us by a female passenger. There are hardly any protests among the 50 or so passengers. No one dares to address the driver directly. The Algerian pensioner starts again in a loud voice: “These are religious verses”.
Then he confronts the other passengers: ” Is no one concerned about secularism?”. Silence. No one contradicts the driver, who just drives off.
The prayer continues until Saint Charles station, continuous loop tape on the bus. Almost 40 minutes in total. More than a discomfort. The passenger we managed to contact can’t believe it: “I find it very shocking. Secularism is a hugely important issue. And all this happened the whole way, all the way to the station in Marseille”.
The prayer continues until Saint Charles station, continuous loop tape on the bus. Almost 40 minutes in total. More than a discomfort. The passenger we managed to contact can’t believe it: “I find it very shocking. Secularism is a hugely important issue. And all this happened the whole way, all the way to the station in Marseille”. On arrival, the Algerian passenger who had been most opposed to the harassment recounts his shock: “It reminds me of Algeria with the FIS. The Islamists, they played this on the buses. Today it’s forbidden in Algeria! And I can hear it here! This is the first time. This is catastrophic! We have to react.”
And he concludes: “This young man, if he keeps doing this, he will bring the Rassemblement National to the top!” France Bleu
Those who came of age in the second half of the 20th century or later, have been blessed to witness a time of extraordinary medical progress. Now, though, thanks to academia’s mindless push for diversity, we are almost certainly on the precipice of a steep decline in the quality of medical care in America.
Beginning in the late 19th century, modern medicine brought us anesthetics and sophisticated germ theory that allowed safe surgeries, antibiotics, the understanding and treatment of chronic diseases, organ transplants, dramatically decreased maternal and child mortality, unimaginably successful treatments for cancer, vision-correcting surgery, and so much more. In the first world, the human life span roughly doubled compared to the lifespan people could expect just 150 years ago. It truly was a time of wonders and miracles.
As medicine grew more sophisticated, doctors’ standing in society increased. Medicine ceased to be an apprentice-type trade and became a high-cachet profession, with gratifying financial awards. By the middle of the 20th century and for several decades thereafter, medical schools were able to limit themselves to the best of the best from every college class. Sure, there were bad doctors, but even if they were bad, they were still smart. (Small consolation, of course, when you’re on the receiving end of malpractice.)
We conservatives knew that socialized medicine threatened all of this and we fought against it for decades. The moment the government takes over medicine, killing the profit motive, it begins rationing care. People have access to doctors; they just don’t have access to treatments that save or improve their lives.
In Canada, the government is putting huge pressure on citizens to kill themselves. In England, the infamous Liverpool Care Pathway didn’t bother to seek volunteers. Instead, the hospitals stopped treating elderly patients who no longer contributed labor to the system and were now dead weight. As Cuba and Venezuela show, eventually, the only ones who receive care are those connected to the government; everyone else gets only the illusion of care.
Another concern about socialized medicine is a decline in the quality of medical practitioners. That’s because the profits available from spending four years in college, four years in medical school, and between three to ten years in post-medical school training are gone. With profits diminishing, the best and the brightest turn their attention elsewhere. So far, though, and despite Obamacare, young doctors who don’t take on too much debt can still earn a good living, so we conservatives thought we’d dodged the socialized medicine bullet.
What we never expected, was to see medical schools, once so proud of their reputations, voluntarily degrade the quality of the students they accepted, trained, and graduated. And yet that’s precisely what’s happening now, thanks to the gods of diversity, which insist that skin color, sex, and “gender identity” are the most important metric in judging a person’s qualifications for a place in a college or for a job.
According to a proud report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, which works with the American Medical Association to accredit medical schools, nearly two-thirds of American medical schools have made “diversity, equity, and inclusion” a preeminent part of their mission and curriculum:
Forty-four percent of medical schools have tenure and promotion policies that reward scholarship on “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Seventy percent make students take a course on “diversity, inclusion, or cultural competence.” And 79 percent require that all hiring committees receive “unconscious bias” training or include “equity advisors”—people whose job it is to ensure diversity among the faculty.
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At many medical schools, concerns about social justice have saturated every layer of institutional decision-making, particularly the hiring and admissions process, a trend some doctors say will undermine meritocracy and endanger patients.
The report indicates that more than a third of medical schools offer extra funding to departments that hit diversity targets, half require job applicants to submit diversity statements, and over two thirds “require departments/units to assemble a diverse pool of candidates for faculty positions.”
In addition, every school reported using a “holistic admissions” process—a euphemism for affirmative action—that assessed applicants’ grades and test scores in light of their race, lowering the academic bar for groups “underrepresented in medicine.”
What all this means, according to the same Washington Free Beacon article linked above, is that quality education is declining:
[M]edical schools have lowered standards for all students, even the top-performers, to avert a scenario in which dropout rates explode. “Once you take in a cohort of students who struggle, you have to ratchet down the entire curriculum,” said Stanley Goldfarb, a professor at University of Pennsylvania Medical School, a Washington Free Beacon enthusiast, and the father of Free Beacon chairman Michael Goldfarb. “So everyone gets through with much less rigorous courses.”
Everything the left touches it destroys and, when leftism destroys medical schools, we will all suffer.
