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July 21, 2007
CA Profs Really Dig Radical Islam
by Tina Grazier
Cinnamon Stillwell has written an excellent
article, posted at American Thinker, exposing a serious problem on a number of California’s college campuses:
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it became painfully clear that if America was to become more engaged in the Middle East, it would need to develop a greater understanding of the area. Scholars of Middle East studies at our nation's universities were called upon to explain the religious, cultural and political dynamics of the region to students, journalists, and politicians
Unfortunately, many of the leading academic lights in the field proved to be woefully unprepared for the conflict at hand and-much worse, were actively hostile to the interests of the United States and its allies.
Ms Stillwell's article, “Campus Watch and California’s Middle East Academic Radicals,” highlights in particular instructors in our own tax funded colleges:
"As far as I can tell, American empire is safe and secure, despite my best efforts to topple it (although Musab al-Zarqawi seems to be doing a good job in Iraq)." - UC Irvine history and Islamic studies professor Mark LeVine
"Israel is an 'apartheid state' and a 'colonial state,' but Hamas and Hezbollah are 'liberation movements.'" - Diablo Valley College Middle East studies instructor Imam Amer Araim
"America's military presence is metastasizing throughout the Arab world to the point of malignancy. Isn't it curious that Muslims are the ones under pressure to proclaim that their religion is the 'religion of peace'?" - UC Berkeley Islamic studies professor Hamid Algar
"You can't have a Palestinian state with its own rights, when you have 150,000 Jewish extremists sitting in the middle." - UCLA history professor Gabriel Piterberg
"It's about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. ...They're gonna say some Palestinian being too radical - well, you haven't seen radicalism yet! - UC Berkeley Islamic studies lecturer Hatem Bazian
Those with kids heading off to college this fall might want to read the entire article and be sure to follow the links for an even broader perspective. CA tax payers might want to consider what their hard earned tax dollars are paying for as well. This isn’t education it’s inflamatory indoctrination. If you’d like to keep tabs on this subject visit campus watch started by Daniel Pipes, a Middle East scholar and the director of "Middle East Forum". He started the website in 2002 to "review and critique Middle East studies in North America, with an aim to improving them."
Posted by Post Scripts at July 21, 2007 11:15 PM