In the UK muslim medical students are boycotting lectures on evolution. It is of course their right to do so, and so it should be the right of their lecturers to fail them if they do not fulfill the course requirements, without fear of reprisals from the Islamic community or a university board that is tolerant of utter ignorance so long as students pay the fees.
I don't understand why creationists would study a course the scientific foundations of which they are fundamentally opposed to in the first place. If you choose to study medicine you damn well study evidence-based medicine, not just the bits you think matter or the bits that conform to an old book written by a misogynistic, tyrannical paedophile who knew nothing about medicine himself.
No one should be exempt from taking biology classes that are a core requirement of the university course they are studying because of religious reasons. Perhaps these people ought to be studying a subject more suited to their way of thinking, like theology or Islamic history.
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