You need to seriously tone it down. You're being ridiculous... Learning about other things is a good thing. Don't restrict yourself to only learning Islam, or the "Islamic" version of things. Just because something isn't Islam, or doesn't initially seem to sound exactly like Islamic ideas you've heard, doesn't mean it will contradict Islam and somehow make you less Muslim.
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tearose
1) To give us an example of the difference between a summaryand another type of account, the teacher handed us out an example text to readat home. It was about someone on a holiday/experience imagining things fromGreek mythology. I didn’t keep it; I threw it away. Now I wonder whether Ishould tell the teacher that I could not use the text, as otherwise, she mightthink I approve of it and that seems wrong to me – aren’t we supposed to pointout things that are wrong?
What if we have to work on a text like that in class? ShouldI leave the classroom and come back when they moved on to something else? I wastold by an imam it is ok as long as you have your own belief in your heart –but personally I find it very upsetting so it’s hard for me to stay.
This is silly. There is nothing wrong with learning about this stuff... It's not like by reading it, you're somehow admitting that you believe it to be true. Not even the faculty teaching it to you believes it to be true. You don't seem to understand the point of studying texts at an academic level... I'd advise you to get another copy from your teacher and finish your assignment.
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tearose
2)Another class is all about using technology fortranslation – online translators, voice-recognition software etc. All was goingwell until the teacher started talking about how can we make the computerunderstand language. That seemed wrong to me, like people who think they cancreate artificial intelligence or something. But maybe it was just a manner ofspeaking, like when something is taking a while to load, some people say, as ajoke, the computer is thinking. Should I ask her to clarify what she meant orshould I give her the benefit of the doubt?
People DO create artificial intelligence. The extent of that "intelligence" is up to debate though, but you seem to be having a knee jerk reaction to this without even knowing much about the field. In this case though, "understanding" language may or may not mean at a human level, but so what if it did? Instead of rejecting what you don't understand, learn about it, even (especially?) if it makes you uncomfortable. People today are studying the mind and artificial intelligence, and there are some theories that equate minds with computers. Don't just reject it outright, learn about it. You don't have to believe it, but that doesn't change the fact that this how others in certain fields are thinking about it.
You seem to be restricting yourself too much. If you keep thinking this way, you run the risk of being so ridiculously sheltered and ignorant to other viewpoints that you will never learn to really
think. If you're so scared of learning, I don't think you should waste your time at a university.