Unbelievable. This country is going to hell in a handbasket.

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this year, the university in Chapel Hill is asking all 3,500 incoming freshmen to read a book about Islam and finds itself besieged in federal court and across the airwaves by Christian evangelists and other conservatives.

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But a national TV talk show host, Fox News Network's Bill O'Reilly, compared the assignment to teaching "Mein Kampf" in 1941 and questioned the purpose of making freshmen study "our enemy's religion."

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To the university's critics, it's about maintaining America's moral backbone in the war on terrorism.

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But some evangelical Christian leaders -- including the Rev. Franklin Graham, who gave the invocation at Bush's inauguration -- have denounced Islam since Sept. 11 as an "evil" religion. Despite the furor those remarks have caused, Graham repeated in radio and television appearances this week that the Koran preaches violence and that terrorism is supported by "mainstream" Muslims around the world.

Welcome to Amerikkka!

There is currently a heated debate as well as lawsuit brewing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Incoming Freshmen are "required" to read an assigned text upon entering the university. Instead of previous controversy free texts such as a book on the Civil War and a book on the Hmong immigrant's struggle with epilepsy and American medicine, UNC has decided that the freshmen need to read about the Qur'an.

If we live in a world where a group of mental deficients will start up a petition to change the name of the next installment of the Lord of the Rings movie, how did a group of UNC administrators not see this coming a mile away?

"No one complained two years ago when the University of North Carolina required its incoming freshmen to read a book about the lingering effects of the Civil War, nor last year when it assigned a book about a Hmong immigrant's struggle with epilepsy and American medicine.
But this year, the university in Chapel Hill is asking all 3,500 incoming freshmen to read a book about Islam and finds itself besieged in federal court and across the airwaves by Christian evangelists and other conservatives."